基于注意力基础观的企业内部研发与合作创新交互效应研究——财务松弛和信息技术的调节作用

An Attention-Based Analysis of the Interactive Effect of Internal R&D and Cooperative Innovation——Moderating Effects of Financial Slack and IT Capability

基于注意力基础理论及其基本原理,探讨了内部研发与合作创新对企业创新绩效的交互影响及财务松弛水平和信息技术能力两个情境因素的调节作用。本文利用世界银行对中国制造企业的调研数据进行Tobit模型分析,并对企业研发选择的内生性进行检验和控制。结果表明,内部研发和外部合作对创新绩效的影响主要体现为替代效应;高的企业财务松弛水平能够对短期财务目标形成缓冲,使管理注意力更多地投向创新等长期目标,有利于减弱两者的替代性,使其呈现互补协同作用;信息技术在创新方面的应用对创新绩效有直接的正向影响,但会强化两者的替代效应。

Based on the attention-based theory and its main principles,it explored the interactive effect of internal R&D and external cooperative innovation on innovation performance,and how financial slack and information technology capability moderated the interaction effect.A Tobit regression analysis was applied to do the empirical study using a dataset from the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys of Chinese manufacturing companies.The possible endogeneity of a firm’s decision to adopt internal R&D and external cooperative innovation was also tested and controlled.The results show that internal R&D and external cooperative innovation substitute each other in promoting innovation performance.A high financial slack level forms a buffer for the short-term economic goals and allows more management attention to focus on the long-term innovation goals.Therefore,it helps to reduce the substitution effect and induce a complementary effect.The utilization of IT capability in innovation has a direct positive effect on innovation,but strengthens the substitution effect between internal R&D and external cooperative innovation.