Linking business models with technological innovation performance through organizational learning

Baoliang Hu

European Management Journal, 2014, vol. 32, issue 4, 587-595

Abstract: This study examines how business models affect technological innovation performance through the mediating role of organizational learning. Using hierarchical regression analysis with data from 173 Chinese manufacturing firms embedded in global manufacturing networks, this study shows that both efficiency-centered and novelty-centered business models affect organizational learning. The results also demonstrate that organizational learning fully mediates the relationship between efficiency-centered business models and technological innovation performance and partially mediates the relationship between novelty-centered business models and technological innovation performance. This study provides new insights into the influence of business models on technological innovation performance by showing the indirect influence of business models. This study may help managers better understand the influence of business models on technological innovation performance.

Keywords: Business model; Design themes; Organizational learning; Technological innovation performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2013.10.009

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