打开制度压力与企业绿色创新之间的黑箱——知识耦合的中介作用

Unlocking the“Black Box”between Institutional Pressure and Firms’Green Innovation:The Mediate Effect of Knowledge Couplings

本文利用128家A股上市制造业企业在2012~2017年的面板数据,采用多元回归模型,探讨了制度压力对企业绿色创新的作用机理,以及企业知识耦合在其中的中介作用。研究发现,规制压力和模仿压力均对绿色创新有正向影响,但时效性存在差异。另外,规制压力和模仿压力还可以通过知识耦合的中介传导作用影响绿色创新。具体而言,规制压力和模仿压力均会促进企业实施两类知识耦合,但影响效果存在差异;企业原有技术领域间的知识耦合与绿色创新呈U型关系,而新旧技术领域之间的知识耦合与绿色创新呈倒U型关系。本文丰富了制度压力、知识管理与绿色创新领域的研究成果。

This paper studies the impact of institutional pressure on firms’green innovation,and the mediate effect of knowledge couplings on the relationship between institutional pressure and firms’green innovation,by the panel data of 128 listed Chinese firms during 2012 to 2017 and using a regression model.Our findings reveal that coercive pressure and mimetic pressure have positive effects on firms’green innovation,but there are differences in the timeliness.The results also show that the knowledge couplings play a mediate effect on the relationships of the different institutional pressures and firms’green innovation.Specifically,coercive pressure and mimetic pressure have a positive effect on firms’knowledge couplings,but there are differences between these influence effects.Furthermore,the couplings among existing knowledge domains has a U shape relationship with firms’green innovation,and the couplings among new and existing knowledge domains has an inverted U shape relationship with firms’green innovation.This paper enriches the research production of institutional pressure,knowledge and innovation management.