连锁董事、组织冗余与企业创新绩效关系研究

A study on the relationship among interlocking directorates,organizational slacks and firm's innovation performance

以资源依赖理论为支撑,使用社会网络和社会统计分析方法等,就连锁董事对企业创新绩效、组织冗余的直接影响以及组织冗余的中介效应进行探索性研究,并就基于西方连锁董事实践而构建的资源依赖理论在中国的适用性进行实证检验。研究结果表明:首先,包括所有关系在内的度中心性对企业创新绩效影响不显著,强连锁数量和地域趋同性对企业创新绩效有显著正向影响;其次,连锁董事对组织冗余的影响中,度中心性、强连锁数量和地域趋同性三个网络因素对组织冗余均有负向影响,其中只有地域趋同性影响显著;最后,连锁董事、组织冗余和创新绩效三者之间,组织冗余的中介效应不显著。总之,连锁董事有助于提升企业创新绩效,有助于减少组织冗余,而组织冗余的减少并不能改善企业创新绩效。

Supported by the resource dependent theory,applying social network and social statistical analyzing method,we explore the consequence of interlocking directorates on firm＇s innovation performance as well as on organizational slacks,test the mediating effect of organizational slacks and whether the resource dependent theory that formulated under the western practice is applicable to China＇s circumstances.The main results are as follows： Firstly,centrality degree including all relationships has no significant effect on firm＇s innovation performance.Strong interlocking relationships and the geographical convergence affect firm＇s innovation performance significantly.Secondly,as to the consequence of interlocking directorates on organizational slacks,degree centrality,the number of strong interlocking and geographical convergence all have negative effect on organizational slacks,only geographical convergence affects significantly.In the end,among the interlocking directorates,organizational slacks and innovation performance,the mediating effect of organizational slacks is insignificant.In one word,interlocking directorates are helpful for improving innovation performance and reducing organizational slacks,but the reduction of organizational slacks can not improve innovation performance,so the resource dependent theory is applicable in China.The results have important practical significance in understanding the role and function of interlocking directorates in China＇s transitional economy