核心企业选择网络外部行动者的策略:行动者特性视角

Strategies of Core Enterprise Choosing Actors from Network Exterior:A Perspective Based on Actor Characteristics

随着技术创新复杂性的增强,以网络为平台寻求外部支持已成为企业技术创新战略的重要选择,而网络集成优势的发挥首先取决于核心企业能否选择到符合创新需要的外部行动者。基于行动者的关系特性、资源特性及空间特性,理论与案例分析相结合,考察了创新网络中核心企业选择外部行动者的策略。研究显示,资源特性是核心企业选择外部行动者时必须考虑的前提条件;如果外部行动者不具备同样的资源特性,具有互补资源的行动者为核心企业极力选择的对象,而对关系特性及空间特性的考虑均在其次;如果外部行动者具备同样的资源特性,关系特性及空间特性就成为核心企业选择外部行动者时的重要约束条件。研究结果对核心企业正确选择外部行动者,全面理解创新与行动者特性之间的关系有重要启示。

With increasing complexity of technology innovation, seeking external support through network has become an important stra- tegic choice for enterprise technological innovation. However, advantage of network depends above all on core enterprise＇ appropriate choice for external actors. Based on the relation characteristics, resource characteristics and space characteristics of actors, combining theory and case analysis, this paper explores the strategies that core enterprise of innovation network chooses external actors. Research results show that, the resource characteristic is a prerequisite for core enterprise choosing external actors; if external actors do not have the same resource characteristics, core enterprise will choose those actors with complementary resources, with less consideration for the relation characteristics and space characteristics of actors ; if external actors have the same resource characteristics, the relation characteristics and space characteristics of actors will become an important constraint for core enterprise choosing external actors. The research results have important enlightenments for core enterprise choosing proper external actors and comprehensively understanding the relationship between innovation and actor characteristics.