| 产品创新绩效偏离、双元学习与企业家导向 |
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| 引用本文： | 刘瑞佳,杨建君,邓程.产品创新绩效偏离、双元学习与企业家导向[J].科研管理,2021,42(3):180-190. |
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| 作者姓名： | 刘瑞佳 杨建君 邓程 |
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| 作者单位： | 西安交通大学管理学院，陕西 西安710049 |
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| 基金项目： | 国家自然科学基金项目:“企业关键共性技术合作创新中技术知识的共享与创造研究”(71572139,2016.01—2019.12)。 |
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| 摘 要： | 产品创新是一个“发明+商业化”的过程。为得到较高的产品创新绩效，企业不仅需要良好的新产品开发绩效（发明）做支撑，还需要在新产品的商业化过程中，具有相匹配的创新成果转化绩效。基于此，文章以知识基础观和理性行为理论为理论基础，探讨企业新产品开发绩效与创新成果转化绩效之间的偏离，即产品创新绩效偏离对双元学习平衡和互补的影响，并引入企业家导向这一企业产品创新过程中的关键情境要素，分析其对偏离和双元学习平衡或互补之间关系的调节作用。利用国内257家制造业企业的有效问卷数据检验理论模型，研究结果显示：（1）偏离负向影响双元学习的平衡，正向影响其互补；（2）当企业的新产品开发绩效大于或等于创新成果转化绩效，即偏离为正时，企业家导向加强了正偏离与双元学习平衡之间的负向关系，削弱了正偏离与双元学习互补之间的正向关系；（3）当企业的新产品开发绩效小于创新成果转化绩效，即偏离为负时，企业家导向削弱了负偏离与双元学习平衡之间的负向关系，加强了负偏离与双元学习互补之间的正向关系。
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| 关 键 词： | 产品创新 新产品开发 创新成果转化 双元学习 企业家导向 |
| 收稿时间： | 2020-03-02 |
| 修稿时间： | 2020-08-26 |
Product innovation performance deviation,learning ambidexterity and entrepreneurial orientation |
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| Liu Ruijia,Yang Jianjun,Deng Cheng.Product innovation performance deviation,learning ambidexterity and entrepreneurial orientation[J].Science Research Management,2021,42(3):180-190. |
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| Authors: | Liu Ruijia Yang Jianjun Deng Cheng |
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| Institution: | School of Management, Xi′an Jiaotong University, Xi′an 710049, Shaanxi, China |
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| Abstract: | Product innovation is a process of "invention + commercialization". To achieve higher product innovation performance, firms not only need good new product development performance(invention, NPDP) to support but also need good commercialization performance(CP) matching the NPDP when selling the newly developed products to market. However, in business practice, many firms have a large output gap between their NPDP and CP. Research shows that many firms can only successfully commercialize about 59% of new products, and only about 54% of the new products can successfully profit. The capabilities of invention and commercialization are equally important in the product innovation process. Their imbalance will lead to the waste of resources and the loss of operational efficiency, and will even threaten the existence and development of firms in the long run.Therefore, this paper defines the imbalance between NPDP and CP as "product innovation performance deviation(PIPD)". PIPD can help firms analyze their weaknesses from performance feedback, so as to reasonably allocate production, achieving balanced arrangements of R&D and production. In this condition, how the firms close the gap in their capabilities through the instruction of PIPD is a problem worth discussing.The purpose of this paper is to focus on PIPD based on the knowledge-based view and theory of reasoned action, to explore its impact on the balance or complementarity of learning ambidexterity. Introducing the entrepreneurial orientation(EO), a key situational factor of the product innovation process, the paper analyzes its moderating effect on the above-mentioned relationship.To be more specific, first, for eliminating PIPD, firms not only need to conduct exploratory learning to pursue the knowledge beyond the current market;but also need to extend existing knowledge with exploitative learning. When a firm′s NPDP is greater than or equal to CP, namely PIPD being plus, it indicates that the firm has a stronger new product development capability than commercialization capability. Thus, the firm is encouraged to eliminate PIPD through exploitative learning, resulting in the imbalance of learning ambidexterity. On the contrary, when the NPDP is less than CP, namely PIPD being minus, it indicates that the firm has an insufficient investment in new product development. But at this time, employees are more inclined to further reduce exploratory learning to protect their short-term interests, because the invention is always high risk and long payback period. However, the imbalance of learning ambidexterity does not mean that PIPD destroys the learning structure. PIPD prompts the firm to realize that learning ambidexterity is important, so as to reach complementarity through enhancing its weak capability.Furthermore, firms that are committed to product innovation also have high EO generally. However, EO will lead the firm to focus more on new product development but relatively ignore the commercialization. Therefore, when PIPD is plus, EO may lead the firm managers to still make radical strategies that are contrary to employees′ desire for exploitative learning. It is likely to cause employees′ negative emotions in learning. Based on this, this paper introduces the theory of reasoned action to explain the possible inconsistencies between strategic orientation and employees′ behavioral intention.Using the effective questionnaire data of 257 domestic manufacturing firms to test the theoretical model, the results show that:(1) PIPD negatively influences the balance of learning ambidexterity, and positively influences its complementarity.(2) When PIPD is plus, EO will strengthen the negative relationship between plus PIPD and the balance of learning ambidexterity, meanwhile weakening the positive relationship between plus PIPD and the complementarity of learning ambidexterity.(3) When PIPD is minus, EO will weaken the negative relationship between minus PIPD and the balance of learning ambidexterity, meanwhile strengthening the positive relationship between minus PIPD and the complementarity of learning ambidexterity.The paper expects to make three contributions. First, the paper expands product innovation research to construct the concept of "product innovation performance deviation" which can reflect the relative level of each required capability in the product innovation process. New product development or commercialization, the weakness of any aspect is bound to affect the overall achievement of product innovation. As an evaluation of the product innovation outcomes and construction of the targeted capabilities required by the firms, PIPD can provide a new theoretical perspective for product innovation research.Second, the paper enriches the research on antecedents of learning ambidexterity. Existing studies are mainly based on exogenous variables to discuss the passive change of learning ambidexterity. This paper takes PIPD as an internal driving factor, believing that the outcomes of product innovation can prompt firms to adjust the structure of learning ambidexterity actively.Third, the paper proposes the double-edged sword effects of entrepreneurial orientation and promotes the application of the reasoned action theory at the firm level. Current research mainly emphasizes the positive effects of EO on firms′ new product development. However, if a firm′s commercialization capability is weak, excessive EO may become an obstacle to the improvement of the capability.This paper also provides some practical implications. Under the strategy of the "Made in China 2025", Chinese manufacturing firms not only need to improve their independent innovation capability but also have to pay attention to the commercialization part. Meanwhile, firm managers also need to objectively analyze the firms′ strengths and weaknesses to develop appropriate strategies rather than blindly follow the trend of the markets. |
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| Keywords: | product innovation new product development innovation achievement transformation learning ambidexterity entrepreneurial orientation |
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