CEO建议寻求、关系学习与企业非连续创新:公司创业导向的激活效应

CEO Advice Seeking,Relational Learning and Firm's Discontinuous Innovation:The Effect of Corporate Entrepreneurial Orientation

在日益动态复杂不确定模糊的环境下,能否开发和实施非连续创新越来越事关企业生死存亡。然而,目前文献对企业非连续创新的研究多停留在理论探讨层面,对企业如何培育和顺利实现非连续创新还缺乏系统的考察。基于高阶理论和社会认知理论,从CEO建议寻求出发,探索CEO内部和外部两种建议寻求行为对企业非连续创新的影响,并重点引入关系学习作为中介来揭示CEO建议寻求对企业非连续创新的具体影响路径,并深入剖析公司创业导向对不同来源的CEO建议寻求作用路径的影响效应,继而构建企业非连续创新的过程机制模型。通过对289位CEO的问卷调研与深入分析发现:CEO内部建议寻求和外部建议寻求均是企业非连续创新的关键驱动因素;关系学习在CEO两种来源的建议寻求与企业非连续创新的关系中存在着部分中介作用;公司创业导向正向调节了关系学习在CEO内部建议寻求与企业非连续创新关系中的中介作用。研究结论对于深刻理解企业非连续创新的发生机制、CEO建议寻求利用、关系学习能力优化以及公司创业导向的打造均有着重要的指导价值。

Due to the increasingly volatile,uncertain,complex,and ambiguous environment,the development and implementation of discontinuous innovation is becoming more critical for firms' survival and development.However,previous studies on discontinuous innovation have mainly focused on theoretical research,and little is known about how to systematically cultivate and implement discontinuous innovation.Based on upper echelons theory and social cognitive theory,it has been probed that CEO advice seeking may be an important driver of discontinuous innovation,with relational learning playing a mediating role,and corporate entrepreneurial orientation playing a moderating role.Data collected from 289 CEOs have shown that both external and internal advice seeking are important determinants of a firm's discontinuous innovation;relational learning has played a partial mediating role in these relationships.Additionally,corporate entrepreneurial orientation has been found to positively moderate the mediating role of relational learning in the relationship between CEO internal advice seeking and discontinuous innovation.Surprisingly,the interaction of CEO external advice seeking and corporate entrepreneurial orientation on subsequent discontinuous innovation is indistinctive.The findings of this study have important theoretical and practical implications for cultivating discontinuous innovation,utilizing CEO advice seeking,optimizing relational learning capability,and promoting corporate entrepreneurial orientation.