管理者的社会关系与企业绩效——组织学习的中介作用

Managerial Ties and Firm Performance——The Mediating Role of Organizational Learning

一些学者探讨了管理者的社会关系与企业绩效间的微观——宏观联系,但往往以财务绩效表示企业绩效,且缺乏关于管理者的社会关系对企业绩效影响机制的研究。本文基于战略的制度观,通过对企业绩效的细分并引入组织学习这一变量,探讨了管理者的商业关系和政治关系是如何通过组织学习的中介作用对企业的财务绩效和创新绩效产生不同影响的。研究表明,管理者的两类关系都能直接促进财务绩效的提升,且组织学习正向影响创新绩效,但它们对创新绩效的影响效果不同。管理者的商业关系直接正向影响创新绩效,同时也通过正向影响组织学习而间接促进企业创新。管理者的政治关系降低了组织学习并通过其中介作用抑制了企业创新。因此,应区别看待管理者的两类社会关系对企业绩效的影响。

Scholars have explored the micro-macro relationship between managerial ties and firm performance which are measured with financial performance, but they ignore the paths through which the relationship happens. Based on the institution- based strategy view, this paper explores the paths between manager＇s business ties and political ties, and firm＇s financial performance and innovative performance by the mediating role of organizational learning. Results show that these two kinds of ties have positive direct effect on financial performance, and that organizational learning has positive direct effect on innovative performance. But they have different effects on innovative performance. On the one hand, manager＇s business ties has positive direct effect on innovative performance; on the other hand, it has positive indirect effect on innovative effect through the mediating role of organizational learning. However, manager＇s political ties reduce the level of organizational learning and finally restrain firm＇s innovation. Thus, these two kinds of managerial ties＂ effects on firm performance should be treated differently.