探索性创新、开发性创新与企业绩效关系研究——基于冗余资源调节效应的实证分析

Exploratory innovation,exploitative innovation and performance:an empirical analysis based on moderating effect of slack resource

探索性创新和开发性创新更能体现企业战略主动性,但它们是两种性质不同的创新方式,存在着资源竞争,关系难以协调。基于251家企业样本数据,本文将冗余资源作为权变调节因素纳入这两种创新及其平衡与企业绩效关系的考察中,构建了一个调节效应分析模型并进行了检验。结果发现,探索性和开发性创新是提高绩效的两种重要途径,但存在着一些绩效差异,二者间的平衡更有助于提升绩效;不同的冗余资源在两种创新方式与绩效关系之间发挥不同调节作用。在两类冗余资源较多的情况下,两种创新方式可以得到有效协调平衡,并促进绩效的提升。

Exploratory and exploitative innovations can make firms act strategically with initiative because of their tight connections with strategies ex ante. But the relationships between the two innovations are harmonized and balanced hardly because they are different innovation ways in character and compete with limited resources. Using samples of 251 firms in China, an empirical model based on moderating effect of slack resource which tested the impact of exploratory and exploitative innovation on firm performance was verified. The results show that exploratory and exploitative innovations have positive effect on firm performance and play different roles on growth and profitability, and the balance between them can promote performance effectively, and that slack resources can moderate differently relationships between the two innovations and performance, and thus, when absorbed and unabsorbed slack are at high levels, or are made use of sufficiently, the two innovations can be synthesized or balanced to promote performance distinctly.