双重网络嵌入、关键资源获取与包容性商业模式构建

包容性商业模式是用经济手段解决我国贫困问题的主要动力,网络嵌入是企业在贫困地区开展商业活动、构建包容性商业模式的重要手段。本文探讨了新创企业的网络嵌入与包容性商业模式构建、双重网络嵌入(社会网络、产业网络)与企业关键资源获取、企业关键资源获取与包容性商业模式构建之间的关系,并在此基础上构建了"双重网络嵌入→关键资源获取→包容性商业模式构建"的作用机理概念模型。     

社会资本、知识获取与企业新产品开发能力关系研究

本研究基于知识基础观及社会资本理论,构建了社会资本、知识获取与企业新产品开发能力的概念模型。研究结果表明,社会资本的结构维度、关系维度和认知维度均显著影响知识获取和企业新产品开发能力,知识获取在社会资本对企业新产品开发能力影响中具有显著的调节作用。     

基于知识交易视角的供应链伙伴关系与创新绩效实证研究

以供应链企业间知识交易为视角,构建了供应链伙伴关系、知识交易与创新绩效之间关系的概念模型,其中供应链伙伴关系包括信任与关系承诺两个维度。利用结构方程模型结合256家供应链上下游企业的调查数据对上述概念模型进行了实证研究。研究结果表明,供应链企业间信任对关系承诺、知识交易与创新绩效有显著的正向影响;关系承诺对创新绩效有显著的正向影响,但其对知识交易的影响并不显著;知识交易对创新绩效有显著的正向影响。     

开放式创新模式下企业创新网络、组织学习与企业创新绩效关系的实证研究——以浙江省企业为案例

开放式创新模式下,企业创新网络与创新绩效的研究已成一大热点。企业通过创新网络,以期有效整合内外部各类资源,增加竞争力。目前大量的研究证实,企业创新网络对创新绩效具有显著的积极影响,但就企业创新网络影响创新绩效作用机理的研究还显得相对匮乏。本文通过对浙江省90家企业的问卷调查和实证分析,试图剖析开放式创新模式下企业创新网络对创新绩效的影响机制。研究表明,企业创新网络能够促进知识获取、知识共享和知识应用,继而影响创新绩效;组织学习在企业创新网络与创新绩效的关系中起到中介作用。     

开放式环境下学习能力与创新绩效研究

开放式环境给企业带来更为开阔的学习环境,使企业有机会借助外部资源获取知识。本文通过第二次经济普查数据对我国工业企业进行研究,并建立结构模型,揭示了开放式环境下企业学习能力和创新绩效的关系。研究得出结论:潜在绩效和即时绩效的主要动力都是来自于内部知识获取能力。在开放式环境下,企业外部知识获取能力与内部知识获取能力均对创新绩效有正向作用,内部知识获取能力对企业创新绩效的影响程度大约是外部知识获取能力的3倍,内部知识获取能力仍是创新绩效的主要推动因素。基于以上结论,本文认为企业要坚持自主创新,注重内部知识获取能力的提升,不能完全依赖外部渠道获取知识,盲目夸大外部资源的对创新绩效的影响。     

关系型社会资本与企业知识获取绩效研究

企业拥有的关系型社会资本直接影响其知识获取绩效.本文构建了两者间理论模型,探究关系型社会资本对企业知识获取绩效的影响机制;提出了合理配置关系型社会资本,提升企业知识获取绩效的建议.     

企业网络中心性与技术创新绩效的实证研究--组织学习能力的中介作用

在对国内外文献的回顾和梳理的基础之上,构建了以组织学习能力作为中介变量的网络中心性对企业技术创新绩效影响的概念模型,通过借鉴Nevis等对组织学习的研究视角,从知识获取能力、知识共享能力、知识利用能力三个维度来测量组织学习能力,并根据246份江苏地区企业的问卷调查,对模型进行了验证。研究结果表明：（1）网络中心性对技术创新绩效的正向促进作用;（2）验证了组织学习能力的部分中介作用。其中组织学习能力中知识获取能力这一维度在网络中心性与技术创新绩效的关系中的中介作用大于知识共享能力和知识利用能力。     

网络能力对商会企业服务创新绩效影响研究——资源获取的中介作用

本文主要探讨商会企业网络能力如何对资源获取和服务创新绩效产生影响,并通过对金华市东北商会162家样本企业进行实证研究,其研究结果表明:网络规划、运营、占位和组织学习能力对资源获取显著正相关;信息、知识和资金资源获取对服务创新绩效显著正相关;资源获取对网络运营能力、组织学习能力与服务创新绩效关系起部分中介作用,对网络规划能力、网络占位能力与服务创新绩效关系起完全中介作用.     

中小企业学习代理模式与组织学习绩效关系实证研究

中小企业通过学习代理人从组织外部获取知识是促进组织学习的重要途径.因此,如何通过有效学习代理模式获取组织所需要知识,如何处理企业发展过程的学习策略以提高学习绩效,成为目前研究中小企业战略的重要课题.文章从学习代理基本理论出发,分析了学习代理的内涵与构成,提出了中小企业三种学习代理模式,提出了学习代理模式与组织学习绩效的概念模型与假设,通过实证研究对假设进行了统计验证,得出了基本结论与进一步研究展望,最后建议中小企业通过学习代理有效获取知识从而提升学习绩效.     

区域创新网络结构对企业创新绩效的影响

随着对区域创新理论研究的深入,目前有关区域创新网络的组织结构和空间网络结构问题成为研究的重点领域。研究区域创新网络结点的交互作用和联结所引致的区域创新网络创新机制,构建区域创新网络结构、企业技术创新行为与创新绩效之间交互作用的概念模型,分析区域创新网络结构对企业技术创新绩效影响的微观机理,揭示区域创新网络结构与企业技术创新之间的协同进化过程。     

The role of networking alliances in information acquisition and its implications for new product performance

The premise of Austrian economics on entrepreneurial discovery suggests that mutual knowledge about market participants defines who will acquire potential information about opportunities to bring future products into existence. Building upon this argument, this research investigates the role of networking alliances in information acquisition and its lagged effect on the new product performance of the firm. By using a longitudinal analysis, the study shows that a firm improves its new product performance as it increases the number of repeated partners and its centrality position relative to others in the technology collaboration network.     

Linking customer resources to firm success: The role of marketing program implementation

Drawing from both resource-based view and dynamic capabilities theory, this research investigates how customer resources (i.e., knowledge and network size) influence firm performance through marketing program implementation. The current research shows that customer resources are critical to the development and execution of marketing programs, which can then lead to firm success. Through surveying 269 retailers, this study finds that while customer knowledge directly affects marketing program implementation, it does not directly influence firm performance. In contrast, customer network size not only directly contributes to marketing program implementation and firm performance, but also serves as a significant moderator.     

The impact of informal social interaction on innovation capability in the context of buyer-supplier dyads

Although many studies employ social network theory to explain firm innovation, how individual-level factors lead to a firm's collective innovation capability remains under-researched. Building on studies that use the work boundary to define formal and informal social interactions, this research aims to illuminate how informal buyer-supplier employee interactions influence buyer firms' innovation capabilities through knowledge acquisition. Integrating the literatures on absorptive capacity and social interaction, the analysis of survey data from 273 Chinese manufacturing firms suggests that employees' informal interactions are positively associated with knowledge acquisition and enhance firms' innovation capabilities. Furthermore, the indirect effects of informal interactions on innovation capability are moderated by knowledge application.     

Learning about foreign markets: A study of Czech SMEs

Drawing on the organizational learning literature, our study examines the role of foreign market knowledge and firm emphasis on technological innovation in the internationalization of small, entrepreneurial firms in the Czech Republic. It is based on a sample of 168 SMEs representing a broad range of manufacturing industries that were founded after the fall of communism and as the Czech economy was transitioning to a more market-based economy. Findings indicate that emphasis on technological innovation is associated with greater acquisition of foreign market knowledge. In addition, our results indicate that emphasis on technological innovation directly and indirectly influences the performance of such SMEs in international markets. Our findings also suggest that foreign market knowledge partially mediates the relationship between firm emphasis on technological innovation and international performance. Implications of our findings from the perspective of theory and practice are discussed.     

Coping With Dependence: A Logistics Strategy Based on Interorganizational Learning for Managing Buyer–Supplier Relations

The rise of outsourcing has heightened interest in the role of logistics managers in coping with dependence in buyer–supplier relations. Buying firm dependence on a supplier potentially reduces supplier performance to expectations because the buying firm cannot leverage power to capture value in the relationship. Drawing from interorganizational learning theory, we advance a logistics strategy that consists of supplier cost analysis and supplier integration as a means to create value and thereby mitigate the negative effects of dependence. By facilitating the acquisition and use of knowledge, supplier cost analysis and supplier integration enable buying firms to identify improvement opportunities while engaging in collaborative supplier relations. Using survey responses from 222 buying firms, we find that while buyer dependence decreases the buyer's perceived supplier performance, supplier integration suppresses these negative effects. Furthermore, we show that supplier cost analysis is a valuable knowledge acquisition tool that logistics managers can use to enable supplier integration as a relational form of governance. As such, we provide new insights into interorganizational learning theory and suggest to logistics managers the important role supplier cost analysis plays in managing buyer–supplier relationships.     

Entrepreneurial growth: The role of international knowledge acquisition as moderated by firm age

In line with repeated recent calls for research on specific forms of growth rather than on an undifferentiated notion of “total growth,” our study contributes to the understanding of entrepreneurial growth. By this we mean growth through expansion into new geographic markets and/or via the introduction of new products or services. Building on Penrose's theory of the growth of the firm and on the research streams she has in part inspired, we investigate the impact of knowledge acquisition from international markets on entrepreneurial growth both at home and abroad. We further suggest that the effects of international knowledge acquisition on entrepreneurial growth will vary with firm age. Utilizing longitudinal data on 138 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), we find that the acquisition of knowledge from international markets fuels growth through market development, and that this effect is stronger for international expansion than domestic expansion. Our results also show that firm age negatively moderates the relationship between international knowledge acquisition and entrepreneurial growth via the introduction of new products or services. Specifically, international knowledge acquisition has a positive effect on growth via new products/services development in young firms, but a negative effect in mature firms. We assume this reflects changes over time in how international knowledge is managed.     

Knowledge acquisition and corporate entrepreneurship: Insights from Spanish SMEs in the ICT sector

The contingent perspective on the corporate entrepreneurship–performance relationship has focused mainly on the influence of factors either environmental or internal to the organization. Only recently have researchers turned their attention to the relational context and specifically to inter-organizational alliances’ potential to influence this relationship. Our paper analyzes how knowledge acquisition from alliances affects the corporate entrepreneurship–performance relationship in a sample of Spanish SMEs from the Information and Communication Technology sector (ICT). The results obtained show that both corporate entrepreneurship and knowledge acquisition have a positive influence on performance but that the moderating effect of knowledge acquisition on the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and performance is negative and it varies depending on the level of knowledge-based resources of the firm.     

Understanding the antecedents of collateral learning in new product alliances

Recognizing that strategic alliances represent an important means for developing knowledge in critical arenas such as new product development, the authors advance the notion of collateral learning that assesses knowledge acquisition internal to a firm in the alliance. To examine its antecedents, the authors build on the behavioral theory of the firm and propose strategic importance and performance vulnerability as the motivational components and organizational similarity and alliance experience as the awareness components advocated in the theory. Results from 133 alliance firms suggest that both the motivational and awareness components are important in influencing collateral learning in new product alliances. Specifically, to develop collateral learning, firms should have extensive alliance experience and an acknowledged stake in their alliance partners. The results also support the theorized U-shaped relationship between organizational similarity of the alliance partners and collateral learning. Thus, collateral learning is facilitated when organizations are either similar or dissimilar, while medium levels of organizational similarity facilitate collateral learning to a relatively lower extent. Although performance vulnerability is found to be associated negatively with collateral learning, extensive alliance experience can attenuate this negative effect.     

The Relationship between Resource Acquisition Methods and Firm Performance in Chinese New Ventures: The Intermediate Effect of Learning Capability

Despite the omnipresent popularity of the resource‐based view of the firm, our understanding of how firms convert resource acquisition into performance returns remains something of a black box. We seek to unpack this problem in this study. Building on the resource‐based view and combining insights from organizational learning theory, this paper develops a theoretical model consisting of seven hypotheses in which resource purchase, resource attraction, and resource internal development are positively related to new venture performance, and in which learning capability mediates these relationships. We also posit that resource acquisition methods augment the learning capability of the firm en route to securing superior new venture performance. We test these hypotheses using survey data from new ventures in China. The results indicate that all three methods of resource acquisition have positive effects on new venture performance, that resource attraction and internal development have positive effects on learning capability in new ventures, and that learning capability mediates the relationship between these two resource acquisition practices and new venture performance. We put forward implications for theory and practice to close the work.     

The pre-acquisition evaluation of target firms and cross border acquisition performance

The paper investigates the impact of the pre-acquisition evaluation of target firms on the performance of cross border acquisitions using data from a sample of acquisitions made by UK firms. The findings provide reasonable support for organizational learning theory, suggesting that the more the acquiring firm learns about the target firm then the better will be the acquisition performance. Specifically, we find support for the hypothesis that thorough evaluation of the strategic and cultural fit positively influences cross border acquisition success. Further, the analysis reveals that detailed evaluation of the target firm's employee and business capability improves acquisition performance. The managerial implications of the findings and directions for future research are also discussed.