关系治理如何影响企业创新绩效?——基于模糊集定性比较分析

How Relationship Governance Affects Firm Innovation Performance?—Based on a Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis

开放式创新环境下,企业往往被嵌入社会网络,如何通过关系治理实现最大化资源获取和利用进而提高创新绩效是目前亟待解决的问题。本研究以97家信息传输、软件和信息技术服务业企业为研究对象,应用模糊集定性比较分析(fsQCA)方法,基于社会网络视角,围绕企业与顾客、政府和投资者建立的外部关系治理和企业内部治理,从商业信用、专用性投资、政治关联、产权性质、股东变动及内部控制6个方面就关系治理如何影响企业创新绩效进行了实证研究。研究发现具有“多重并发因果”和“殊途同归”特征的5条高水平创新绩效路径和6条低水平创新绩效路径,为企业关系治理模式选择提供依据。

In an open innovation environment,firms are often embedded in social networks.How to maximize the acquisition and utilization of resources through relational governance to improve innovation performance is an urgent problem to be solved.This study applies the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis(fsQCA)method to 97 information transmission,software and information technology service firms.Based on the social network perspective,this study focuses on the external and internal governance of firms relationships with customers,government and investors,and examines six aspects of relationship governance:commercial credit,dedicated investment,political affiliation,nature of ownership,shareholder changes and internal control.An empirical study was conducted to examine how relationship governance affects firms innovation performance.Five high innovation performance paths and six low innovation performance paths with“multiple concurrent causalities”and“different routes to the same destination”are identified to provide a basis for the choice of relationship governance model.