学习、创新与核心能力:机制和路径

学习和创新是影响核心能力的重要因素,而核心能力又是组织获取竞争优势提升绩效的基础,但国内外学术界尚未对学习、创新、核心能力与绩效之间的相互影响路径和作用机制进行实证研究。本文基于战略的资源基础观,整合学习理论、创新理论与核心能力理论,首先构建了一个新的理论模型,再以华南地区202家企业为样本运用结构方程模型进行检验和修正。其学术贡献在于明确了学习并不是企业绩效提升的直接影响因素,学习也不能直接带来企业的核心能力,学习导向必须通过创新才能提高核心能力,并进而提升绩效;创新并非直接提升组织绩效,而是有一个培育核心能力的中间过程;在中国的管理环境下,不同产业的企业其创新对核心能力有不同的影响,即创新并不必然转化为核心能力。实践意义在于为企业正确理解和运用学习、创新来构建核心能力及提升组织绩效提供借鉴。

Learning,Innovation and Core Competence:Mechanism and Path

We examine the relationships among learning orientation, organizational innovation, core competence and organizational performance in this paper. The sample of this study covers 202 companies in south China. We proved that learning orientation has positive indirect impact on core competence by organizational innovation while the direct effect of learning orientation on core competence is not statistically significant. Moreover, a process of developing core competence is required in the chain of organizational innovation-organizational performance, while organizational innovation has positive indirect impact on organizational performance. And the model we proved applies to high-tech industries while not to non-high-tech industries.