网络嵌入对科技型企业成长的影响研究——组织合法性和商业模式创新的链式中介作用

Research on the Impact of Network Embeddedness on the Growth of Scientific and Technological Enterprises: The Chain Mediating Effect of Organizational Legitimacy and Business Model Innovation

网络嵌入是企业由于过去的交往和联系而逐渐形成的稳定联系,它决定了企业所获得资源的差异,进而影响企业成长状况。本研究基于网络嵌入理论,引入组织合法性与商业模式创新作为有因果的双中介变量,构建了网络嵌入对企业成长的影响机制模型,采用全国371家科技型企业的有效样本数据进行了实证检验。研究结果表明:网络嵌入对科技型企业成长具有促进作用;科技型企业凭借网络嵌入打破资源约束并获取组织合法性,从而助力于企业成长;科技型企业从所嵌入网络中获取信息与支持,降低组织变革风险,提高商业模式创新成功率而实现企业成长;网络嵌入帮助科技型企业获取利益主体的认可与支持而提升合法性水平,确保商业模式创新符合当前法律法规、行业标准等,最终助力于企业成长;组织合法性程度越高,关系嵌入和商业模式创新对科技型企业成长的作用越强。本研究揭示了网络嵌入对科技型企业成长的影响机制,也为科技型企业实现持续健康成长提供了借鉴。

Network embeddedness,which determines the various resources obtained by the scitech enterprise and ultimately affects its growth status,is the stable connection formed in the enterprise due to its previous ties and interactions.This paper introduces organizational legitimacy and business model innovation as causal dual mediating variables,constructs the chain mediating conceptual model of"network embeddedness–organizational legitimacy–business model innovation–enterprise growth",and presents the research hypothesis accordingly.We conduct the research in the form of questionnaire and select the scale widely used in the Chinese context.In order to ensure the rationality of the questionnaire,we carry out a small sample prediction test for managers of scientific and technological enterprises as well as university experts,in which the questionnaire is modified according to their feedback results.Following this,we commission a professional research company to collect 371 valid questionnaires.The conclusions are carried out through exploratory factor analysis,correlation analysis,hierarchy regression analysis and Sobel model.The research shows that:First,both relational embeddedness and structural embeddedness promote the growth of scientific and technological enterprises.Second,organizational legitimacy and business model innovation play a mediating role in the relationship between network embeddedness and the growth of scientific and technological enterprises respectively,in which the mediator effect of organizational legitimacy is more significant.Third,organizational legitimacy and business model innovation play a chain mediating role in the relationship between relational embeddedness and growth of scientific and technological enterprises.Fourth,the improvement of organizational legitimacy promotes the influence of relational embeddedness and business model innovation on the growth of scientific and technological enterprises.Therefore,this paper verifies the chain mediating role of organizational legitimacy and business model innovation,clarifies the influence mechanism of network embeddedness on the growth of scientific and technological enterprises,enriches the research content in the field of network embeddedness and firm growth,and expands the applicable scope of the iceberg theory of business model.The main contributions of this research are as follows:First,it analyzes the influence mechanism of network embeddedness on the growth of scientific and technological enterprises,confirms that network embeddedness,organizational legitimacy and business model innovation are important antecedent variables in the field of enterprise growth,and further enriches the related studies of network embeddedness and enterprise growth theory.Second,it introduces organizational legitimacy and business model innovation as causal dual mediating variables,analyzes the chain mediating role of organizational legitimacy and business model innovation,as well as explores the moderating role of organizational legitimacy.These results expand the research on the influence mechanism of network embeddedness on enterprise growth,and provide a novel perspective to explain the divergence in previous research.Third,it takes Chinese local scientific and technological enterprises as the research samples,and explores the antecedents and after-effects of business model innovation from an empirical perspective,which further develops the research content of the iceberg theory of business model and establishes a foundation for the follow-up research.