创业团队共享领导对企业创新绩效的影响机制

Impact Mechanism of Shared Leadership in New Venture Teams on Firm Innovative Performance

经济环境不确定性和竞争全球化趋势对新创企业生存和发展提出新挑战,随着组织结构日益扁平化和团队任务的复杂性程度不断增加,共享领导越来越受到研究者的关注,共享领导能够促进创业团队成员的协作,使创业团队成员共同为企业绩效负责。基于高层梯队理论,以输入-过程-输出为框架,构建有调节的中介模型,探讨创业团队共享领导对企业创新绩效的影响机制,引入行为整合的中介作用,探讨CEO冒险倾向对创业团队共享领导与行为整合的关系以及创业团队共享领导通过行为整合中介对企业创新绩效影响的调节作用。采用问卷调查方法,以来自127个创业团队的434份数据为样本,采用多层线性回归方法和程序插件Process进行检验。研究结果表明,创业团队共享领导对企业创新绩效有显著的正向影响;行为整合对企业创新绩效有显著的正向影响;行为整合中介创业团队共享领导对企业创新绩效的影响;CEO冒险倾向在创业团队共享领导与行为整合之间起调节作用,即CEO冒险倾向增加创业团队共享领导对行为整合的正向影响;CEO冒险倾向通过行为整合正向调节创业团队共享领导与企业创新绩效之间的关系。研究结果进一步深化共享领导在新创企业情景下对组织层面结果变量的研究,有助于深入了解共享领导对企业创新绩效的作用机制,并深化了CEO冒险倾向对创业企业共享领导与行为整合和企业创新绩效的调节作用的认识,对提升创业团队创新绩效具有一定的理论指导和实践意义。

With the uncertainty of economic environment and the trend of globalization of competition,new ventures are facing new challenges.Moreover with the increase of flattening organization structure and complexity of team task,shared leadership is getting more and more attention from researchers,which can prompt shared responsibility and the collaboration of new venture teams,which makes great effects to promote the innovative performance of new ventures.Based on Upper echelons theory and the input-process-output(I-P-O)model,the current study adopts behavioral integration as a mediator to examine the impact mechanism of shared leadership in new venture teams on firm innovation performance and the moderating effect of CEO risk-taking propensity on the relationship between shared leadership in new venture teams and behavioral integration.Thus we construct a moderated mediation model.We have collected valid data of 434 samples data from 127 new venture teams through questionnaire survey.The theoretical hypotheses have been tested through hierarchical multiple regression and Bootstrap.The empirical results show that:shared leadership in new venture teams has a significant positive effect on firm innovative performance;behavioral integration has a significant positive effect on firm innovative performance;and behavioral integration mediated the relationship between shared leadership in new venture teams and firm innovative performance;CEO risk-taking propensity moderated the relationship between shared leadership in new venture teams and behavioral integration,for teams with higher CEO risk-taking propensity,the positive impact of shared leadership on behavioral integration is stronger;CEO risk-taking propensity has an impact on the relationship between shared leadership in new venture teams and firm innovative performance through behavioral integration.The results not only deepen the understanding of shared leadership in the context of new venture teams on organizational outcome variables,but also contribute to in-depth understanding of the mechanism of shared leadership in new venture teams on firm innovative performance.Moreover,this study examines the moderated effect of CEO risk-taking propensity on the relationship between shared leadership and behavior integration,hence further the moderated medation of behavior integration between shared leadership and firm innovative performance,which contributes to introduce an important boundary condition of this relationship.Meanwhile,this study also provides important theoretical guidance and practical implications to the improvement of firm innovative performance in new venture teams.