知识创造、组织创新与组织绩效关系之实证研究

本文将组织知识创造、组织创新纳入到对组织绩效的研究当中,构建了研究知识创造、组织创新与组织绩效的整体理论模型,以国际货代公司为研究对象,发放了600份调查问卷,得到359份有效问卷,对理论模型进行验证,研究结果表明：知识创造能够直接正向影响组织绩效,也能通过组织创新间接影响组织绩效,其间接效果大于直接效果。     

产品创新性与创新绩效关系研究

在对已有理论基础和实证研究结果进行回顾与辨析的基础上,从企业视角出发,提出产品创新性与创新绩效间关系理论模型及相应研究命题。首先,细化两个构念维度,将产品创新性划分为市场、技术、组织和环境新颖性4个维度,将创新绩效划分为市场绩效和运营绩效两个方面,其中运营绩效包含创新速度、费用和质量。其次,对文献中已有实证研究结果进行剖析和对比,构建产品创新性与创新绩效间关系理论模型。最后,对产品创新性维度进行分解,对创新绩效进行剖析,可为理论发展和科学决策提供依据及启示。     

高技术企业组织政治行为与创新绩效关系研究

近年来,高技术企业对创新投入的贡献虽然越来越大,创新系统运行效率却普遍不高,高技术企业创新绩效不佳。基于研发人员组织政治行为视角,结合压力源研究成果,剖析在个人利益与组织利益不同关系下,研发人员基于工作研发压力、人际关系压力和职业成长压力采取的组织政治行为对高技术企业创新绩效的影响。研究发现,组织政治行为对创新绩效水平既有正面影响又有负面影响。管理者应当在协调组织利益与个人利益的基础上,加强对研发人员创新环境的管理,提高员工创新素质,促进创新绩效水平提高。     

传统产业国有企业产品创新案例分析

传统产业中许多国有企业处于困境之中，如何使它们摆脱困境，在市场竞争中生存和发展，产品创新是一条出路，许多企业在这方面进行了常试，但也暴露了出一些有企业普遍存在的问题，本文对承德钢铁公司在产品创新方面的几个案例进行分析，探讨成功或失败的原因，希望能对国有企业的发展有所借鉴。     

创新营销组织提升营销绩效

本文阐述了我国企业营销组织面临的问题,提出了设计营销组织的基本原则,重点论述了职能组织、地区组织、产品组织、客户组织的健全发展和完善业务流程的问题。     

企业环境许诺与绿色产品创新绩效关系研究

在回顾总结绿色产品与创新绩效有关文献基础上,以绿色产品创新绩效为被解释变量,企业环境许诺与人力资本为解释变量,以污染密集型行业的制造业为研究对象,利用结构方程模型（SEM）探讨企业环境许诺、人力资本对绿色产品创新绩效的影响。研究表明,企业环境许诺对绿色产品创新绩效具有正向影响,并通过绿色适应能力直接影响绿色产品创新绩效;人力资本并不直接影响绿色产品创新绩效,绿色自适应能力在人力资本与绿色产品创新绩效之间起到一定的调节效应。     

市场导向、组织创新与组织绩效的关系:珠三角地区企业的实证研究

以我国珠三角地区企业为调查对象,对市场导向是否以及如何通过组织创新影响组织绩效进行实证研究。证实了市场导向对组织绩效没有显著的直接影响,但是对管理创新和技术创新具有显著的直接影响,而且对后者的影响大于前者;市场导向通过管理创新对组织绩效的影响大于通过技术创新对组织绩效的影响;管理创新在市场导向-组织创新-组织绩效的关系链中起到了至关重要的作用,是提升组织绩效的瓶颈。     

母子公司组织协同、知识协同与创新绩效的关系研究

实现母子公司的协同,是提升母子公司创新水平的关键,但现有研究对母子公司间的协同如何影响母子公司的创新绩效缺乏足够的关注。运用企业知识理论,从研究母子公司的组织协同入手,把知识协同作为中介变量,剖析母子公司间的组织协同、知识协同和创新绩效三者之间的关系,并构建了相应的概念模型,以此来阐述母子公司协同创新的本质。     

面向持续竞争优势的服务创新研究

通过查阅文献资料，阐述国内外关于服务创新的研究现状，揭示了持续竞争优势的内涵。文章主要从企业生命周期的角度论述服务创新的必要性。重点阐述了服务创新的内涵和基本特点。从服务创新的驱动力、创新目标形成和服务创新实施过程三个方面介绍了服务创新的过程模型。     

组织柔性对企业创新绩效的影响

在经济全球化深入发展、贸易摩擦不断增多的背景下,研究企业技术创新问题,无论对实施创新驱动发展战略、转变经济增长方式,还是对增强我国企业的国际竞争力都具有重要意义。本文从理论上探讨了组织柔性、技术创新动态能力与创新绩效之间的内在联系,构建了以技术创新动态能力为中介的组织柔性影响企业创新绩效的模型。以我国制造业企业为研究对象,运用文献研究与实地调研结合开发的组织柔性和技术创新动态能力的测量量表,对318家企业进行了问卷调查。通过对调查数据的统计分析,得出以下结论:组织柔性和技术创新动态能力对企业创新绩效有显著影响;组织的结构柔性和文化柔性对企业技术创新动态能力的各个维度都具有显著影响,但技术柔性仅对适应环境的组织变革能力有显著影响;在组织柔性影响企业创新绩效的过程中,技术创新动态能力具有部分中介作用。从组织结构柔性、文化柔性和技术柔性方面强化企业组织柔性建设,有利于提升企业技术创新动态能力和创新绩效。     

Impact of organizational innovation on product and process innovation

The purpose of this paper was to test the effect of organizational innovation on product and process innovation (while controlling for endogeneity). Our hypothesis was that organizational innovation should have a significant and positive impact on technical (product or process) innovation. We control for endogeneity by using a Poisson estimator that accommodates a binary endogenous regressor. We test 10 potential instruments using a battery of test criteria and settle on five. All results are presented using the five instruments to avoid expectation bias. In general we find that organizational innovation does impact technical innovation positively. With the 2009 data we find that the mean of the average treatment effect for product innovation is roughly 1.7 times that of process innovation. For the 2009–2012 data we find that the impact on product innovation is roughly 1.5 times that of process innovation. For the 2012 data, we had anomalous results for process innovation, such that organizational innovation reduced the number of process innovations by 2.3 per year. In terms of Canadian government policy, the results lend support to the view that technical innovation is not the only innovation that matters. The right policy mix may encourage firms to experiment with and adopt more organizational innovations to enhance technical innovation.     

Strategic networks and new product performance: the mediating role of ambidextrous innovation

In this study we examine the relationship between strategic networks and new product performance from the perspective of ambidextrous innovation (i.e. combining exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation) using a sample of 323 manufacturing firms in the transitional economy of China. Our empirical analyses present several interesting findings: (a) strategic networks are positively related to firms’ new product performance; (b) ambidextrous innovation has a positive effect on firms’ new product performance – that is, the combination of exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation positively affects the firm's new product performance, while the lack of balance between exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation negatively affects the firm's new product performance; and (c) ambidextrous innovation mediates the relationship between strategic networks and new product performance. Our findings provide scholars and managers with a better understanding of the key role played by the simultaneous adoption of exploratory and exploitative innovation in the relationship between strategic networks and new product performance.     

Firm persistence in technological innovation: the relevance of organizational innovation

Organizational innovation favors technological innovation, but does it also influence persistence in technological innovation? This paper empirically investigates the pattern of technological innovation persistence and tests the potential impact of organizational innovation using firm-level data from three waves of French Community Innovation Surveys. The evidence indicates a positive effect of organizational innovation on persistence in technological innovation, according to the various measures of organizational innovation. Moreover, this impact is more significant for complex innovators, i.e. those who innovate in both products and processes. The results highlight the complexity of managing organizational practices with regard to the technological innovation of firms. They also add to understanding of the drivers of innovation persistence through the focus on an often forgotten dimension of innovation in a broader sense.     

Knowledge integration methods,product innovation and high-tech new venture performance in China

Combining insights from knowledge-based theory (KBT) and the product innovation literature, this paper explores whether and how knowledge integration methods contribute to high-tech new venture performance in China’s emerging economy. Using data from 295 entrepreneurs and top executives in Chinese high-tech new ventures, we find that both the coordinated integration of knowledge and systemic integration of knowledge have positive effects on high-tech new venture performance and product innovation. Competitive intensity moderates the impact of knowledge integration methods on product innovation. Moreover, product innovation is a mediator in the relationship between knowledge integration methods and high-tech new venture performance. Our findings have important theoretical and practical implications.     

Vertical educational diversity and innovation performance

This paper uses panel data of Swiss firms to analyse the impact of education-level diversity in the workforce on innovation performance, addressing endogeneity by exploiting within-firm variation as well as variation in labour supply across regions. We find that vertical educational diversity increases the extensive margin of R&D and product innovation, particularly new product innovation. However, the relationship with process innovation, R&D intensity, and product innovation intensity is insignificant. These results are in line with the idea that vertical educational diversity enhances the creative moment of the invention phase, while it has no effect on the commercialization phase due to the relevance of coordination and communication costs relative to the gains in creativity.     

A systematic literature review of the relationship between demographic diversity and innovation performance at team-level

ABSTRACT

Demographic diversity is a relevant aspect to consider when forming innovation teams, particularly where the labour market needs to be transformed in terms of age, gender and race (as in South Africa). Existing research reports mixed findings about the effects of demographic diversity on innovation performance of teams. This study contributes to the existing equivocal research by systematically reviewing the literature about the effects of demographic diversity and its dimensions on innovation performance of teams. Results show that high diversity of demographic dimensions, namely age, gender and culture increases team innovation performance when considered individually while the overall team demographic diversity has mixed effects. This review also confirms the existence and effects of various moderators that can be leveraged to develop team-formation policies such that the direct effects of demographic diversity and its dimensions on team performance can be influenced to foster the desired innovation performance.     

Beyond product innovation: deciphering process-oriented innovators,complementarities and performance effects

Relatively little attention has been paid to the understanding of process innovation, compared to the well-researched product innovation. This paper contributes to improve our understanding of process innovation and its specific process capabilities and performance by exploring, across many industries, 4,608 process-oriented innovators. Process innovation is defined as adoption of technologically new or significantly improved production methods, including changes in equipment, organisation or methods of product delivery. Process-oriented innovators or process seekers are those firms which usually only introduce process innovation, and no product innovation. These have received less attention by scholars. Results show that process innovation without also organisational innovation complements constrains innovative performance. Complex process-based innovation complementarities result from the simultaneous development and integration of new machinery and organisational innovations.     

开放式创新与企业竞争优势间关系研究述评

从开放式创新的概念、动因及模式出发,对开放式创新与企业竞争优势间关系的理论研究、实证研究进行述评,并指出现有研究对管理实践的启示、存在的不足以及未来的研究方向。     

A Microeconometric note on product innovation and product innovation advertising

This paper seeks to explain why more than half of the German service sector firms that introduce a product innovations do not advertise their new or markedly improved product. One part of the explanation is that they do not need to advertise because they are closely related to their customers anyway, and another part of the explanation is that product innovation and product innovation advertising are strategic substitutes.