制度压力与中小企业双元性创新意愿:领导力风格的调节作用

Role of Institutional Pressures and Leadership Styles in the Intention of SMEs to Adopt Ambidextrous Innovation

立足于制度理论和企业领导力风格,研究了制度压力如何驱动中小企业接受双元性创新战略以及如何被企业领导力风格调节。通过对247家中小企业进行实证分析,结果表明,制度压力的3个维度,即规范性压力、模仿性压力和强制性压力对中小企业双元性创新意愿均有积极影响。此外,领导力风格,即变革型领导力风格和事务型领导力风格在制度压力影响中小企业双元性创新意愿的过程中发挥不同调节作用。其中,变革型领导力风格消极调节规范性压力和模仿性压力对中小企业双元性创新意愿的影响,积极调节强制性压力对企业双元性创新意愿的影响;事务型领导力风格积极调节规范性压力和强制性压力对双元性创新意愿的影响。该研究从制度理论视角丰富了现有双元性创新研究,表明中小企业作为理性实体,在追求经济效率的同时也必须接受制度环境的有效制约。其中,企业领导力风格赋予了其在制度压力下的能动性。

Drawing upon institutional theory and leadership styles,this research investigates how institutional pressures drive small and medium-size enterprises(SMEs)to take on ambidextrous innovation and effects moderated by leadership style.The supposedly consequential model is tested using survey data obtained from 247 SMEs in China.Findings point out that three dimensions of institutional pressures,(i.e.normative,mimetic,and coercive)are positively associated with the ambidextrous innovation intention of SMEs.In addition,leadership styles(i.e.transformational and transactional)plays different roles in the associations between the three dimensions of institutional pressures and the aforementioned intention.Transformational leadership negatively moderates the effects of normative and mimetic pressures whereas positively moderates the effects of coercive pressures.By contrast,transactional leadership positively moderates the effects of normative and coercive pressures but lacks moderating effects on mimetic pressures.This research likewise discusses the implications and directions for future research.