The Influence of Inter-Enterprise Knowledge Heterogeneity on Exploratory and Exploitative Innovation Performance: The Moderating Role of Trust and Contract

Chen Tao, Yiying Qu, Hao Ren and Zhuopin Guo
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Chen Tao: School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Yiying Qu: Business School, East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai 200042, China
Hao Ren: School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
Zhuopin Guo: School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 14, 1-19

Abstract: Improving enterprise innovation performance is key for enterprises to obtain sustainable competitiveness. With the increasingly fierce market competition of technological and product innovation, acquiring external heterogeneous knowledge of alliance enterprises becomes core to improving innovation performance. In this paper, we constructed a theoretical model to present the effect of inter-enterprise knowledge heterogeneity and alliance network governance mechanisms on enterprise innovation performance. We selected high-tech enterprises as the research object for empirical research and reached the following conclusions: (1) Inter-enterprise knowledge heterogeneity has a positive effect on exploratory and exploitative innovation performance, and (2) trust and contract have a moderating effect on the relationship between inter-enterprise knowledge heterogeneity and enterprise innovation performance.

Keywords: inter-enterprise knowledge heterogeneity; exploratory innovation performance; exploitative innovation performance; trust; contract (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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