供应商创新与下游企业出口绩效

Supplier Innovation and Downstream Enterprises'Export Performance

打造富有竞争力的供应链日益成为提升企业核心竞争力的根本。本文基于多方数据库的整合,构建了上游供应商—下游企业的数据样本集,研究供应商创新对下游企业出口的影响并探究影响机制。研究发现:上游供应商创新对下游企业的出口绩效提升存在显著的促进效应,其中对下游高新技术行业企业的促进作用尤其明显,且发明专利和实用新型专利等实质性创新对下游企业出口的提升作用更显著。供应商创新通过提升下游企业产品技术复杂度和缓解资金约束促进了下游企业出口。一方面,供应商创新通过提升企业出口产品技术复杂度,强化了企业出口竞争力,促进了出口;另一方面,供应商创新通过缓解下游企业资金约束,加强了企业出口的资金保障,提升了出口。此外,上游供应商创新对下游企业采购网络具有重构效应,显著提升了下游企业从创新供应商的采购金额和采购比例。本文在创新发展战略下为恢复出口和巩固外贸基本盘提供了重要方向。

Building a competitive supply chain has increasingly become fundamental to enhancing the core competitiveness of enterprises.Based on the integration of multiple data⁃bases,this paper constructs a dataset of upstream suppliers-downstream enterprises to study the impact of supplier innovation on the export performance of downstream enterprises and explore the mechanisms.The findings include:Upstream supplier innovation has a significant promotional effect on the export performance of downstream enterprises,especially for those in high⁃tech industries.Substantive innovations such as invention patents and utility model patents have a more significant impact on enhancing the export performance of downstream enterprises.Supplier innovation promotes downstream enterprises’exports by increasing product technical complexity and alleviating financial constraints.On the one hand,supplier innovation enhances the technical complexity of export products,strengthens export competitiveness,and improves the export performance.On the other hand,supplier innovation alleviates the financial constraints of downstream en⁃terprises,ensures financial support for exports,and improves the export performance.In ad⁃dition,upstream supplier innovation has a reconstructive effect on the procurement network of downstream enterprises,significantly increasing the amount and proportion of downstream enterprises’procurement towards innovative suppliers.This paper provides important direc⁃tions for recovering exports and consolidating the foundation of foreign trade under the inno⁃vation⁃driven development strategy.