RETRACTED ARTICLE: Knowledge search and innovation performance: The mediating role of absorptive capacity

Meixia Wang () and Huiping Wang ()
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Meixia Wang: Xi’an University of Technology
Huiping Wang: Xi’an University of Finance and Economics

Operations Management Research, 2022, vol. 15, issue 3, No 29, 1060-1070

Abstract: Abstract Knowledge search is an effective way to rapidly enhance enterprise innovation performance. To test whether absorptive capacity has a mediating effect between knowledge search and innovation performance, this paper brings the three into a unified analysis framework and takes 86 enterprises in Shaanxi Province of China as a research sample to verify the conceptual model through a questionnaire survey, structural equation model and mediating effect test. The results show that knowledge search has a significant positive impact on innovation performance in enterprises and effectively promotes their absorptive capacity. Simultaneously, absorptive capacity has a significant positive impact on enterprises’ innovation performance, and absorptive capacity has an intermediary role in the relationship between knowledge search and innovation performance.

Keywords: Knowledge Search; Innovation Performance; Absorptive Capacity; Mediating Effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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