不同新颖度知识创造与企业成长动态关系研究——基于华为时间序列数据的探索性案例研究

On dynamic relationship between knowledge creation and a firm's growth based on novelty of new knowledge differentiation: An explorative case study on Huawei via sequential data

知识创造作为企业内生性知识存量积累的来源以及获取自主知识产权的基础,在我国强调自主创新的转型经济背景下变得日益重要。相关研究多基于过程视角探索知识创造过程(能力)对企业创新绩效的影响,却对企业创造的新知识到底如何影响企业成长关注不够,这使得现有研究不能解释为什么具有相同知识创造过程的企业最终会获得不一样成长结果的现象。本文基于新颖度区分的企业知识创造结果视角,以华为时间序列数据为对象进行探索性纵向案例研究,对企业所创造的不同新颖程度的新知识与企业成长间动态关系进行研究。发现:知识创造对企业成长的积极效应具有一定的滞后期,并随时间推移呈现出先递增再递减的倒U型特征;随着所创造知识的新颖程度提高,知识创造对企业成长的影响呈现出近似U型的特征。最后,文章讨论了理论贡献、管理意义与研究局限。

It becomes more and more important for a firm to create new knowledge which makes the endogenous sources of a firm＇ s knowledge accumulation and the base to gain intelligence property, especially in conditions of China＇ s economy transition. While extant literature mostly focuses on the relationship between knowledge creation and innovation performance from the perspective of processes of knowledge creating, few investigate the relationship between knowledge creation and firms＇ growth from the perspective of outcomes of knowledge creating. The gap makes it difficult to understand the phenomenon that firms get different performance even though they have same processes of knowledge creating. Differentiating new knowledge created by a firm according to the degree of novelty, the present paper explores the dynamic relationships between knowledge creation and a firm＇ s growth from the perspective of outcomes of knowledge creating, using sequential data selected from Huawei. Findings got： （ 1 ） There is a time lag between knowledge creation and a firm＇ s growth, and as time goes on, the impact of knowledge creation on a firm＇ s growth increases in earlier stage and then decreases, like an invert - U shape. （2） Different degree of novelty of new knowledge contributes a firm＇ s growth differently, namely, the relationship between knowledge creation and a firm＇ s growth with respect of the degree of novelty of new knowledge shows an approximate U - shape with degree of novelty becoming higher and higher. Finally, we discuss the theoretical contribution, managerial implications and limitations.