The impact of enterprise niche on dual innovation performance: moderating role of innovation openness

Hui Zhang, Huanhuan Xiong, Qian Wang and Yongjie Gu

European Journal of Innovation Management, 2022, vol. 26, issue 6, 1547-1569

Abstract: Purpose - This paper aims to explore the impact of enterprise niche on dual innovation performance and the moderating role of innovation openness on the relationship between enterprise niche and dual innovation performance. Design/methodology/approach - This study uses the panel data of the enterprise technology patents of China's Top 100 Electronic Information Enterprises from 2009 to 2018. Multiple regression analyses were used to test the hypotheses. Findings - Niche width has a significant positive impact on exploitative and exploratory innovation performance. Niche overlap has an inverted U-shaped effect on exploitative innovation performance and significantly positively affects exploratory innovation performance. Innovation openness negatively moderates the impact of niche width on exploitative innovation performance and positively moderates the impact of niche overlap on exploitative innovation performance. Originality/value - This study provides new insights into the effects of enterprise niche on dual innovation performance by showing the moderating role of innovation openness. The study finds a strategic logic of moderate niche overlap, clarifies the innovative effect of different innovation openness modes and reveals the construction and management mechanisms of enterprise niche and innovation openness strategy.

Keywords: Enterprise niche; Innovation openness; Exploitative innovation; Exploratory innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1108/EJIM-10-2021-0503

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