Liu Xianyue, Yao Zhipeng, Liu Caixia, Zhao Dali, Lin Chunpei
Business School of Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, China.
Business Management Research Center, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2021 Oct 7;12:725514. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.725514. eCollection 2021.
Against the backdrop of the fierce competition in the market nowadays, a closed innovation model based on internal knowledge is no longer sufficient to support enterprises in search of high-performance innovation. Instead, corporations are desperately required to search for resources of external knowledge to meet their innovation goals. Existing studies on open innovation in corporate management failed to fully elaborate on the mechanism of how the external knowledge search could impose an impact on sustaining innovation and disruptive innovation. In this study, the external knowledge search was divided into three categories according to the knowledge-based theory, namely, the scientific knowledge search, the market knowledge search, and the supply-chain knowledge search. While taking into account the moderating role of the focus of attention of the manager, we analyzed the statistical results of 485 questionnaires collected from manufacturing enterprises to elaborate on the mechanism of how the specialized knowledge search could impose an impact on sustaining innovation and disruptive innovation. Our research conclusions are expected to enrich existing studies on the factors contributing to corporate innovation, including but not limited to sustaining innovation and disruptive innovation. In addition, the research findings are expected to lay an empirical foundation by summarizing previous theoretical opinions while providing references for subsequent in-depth studies in the meantime. Moreover, the paper has put forward practical management measures and suggestions that could enable enterprises in developing countries to search and effectively transform the external knowledge into innovative outcomes. Last but not least, this study is expected to provide both theoretical and practical guidance for enterprises to further facilitate innovation by means of knowledge search.
在当今市场激烈竞争的背景下，基于内部知识的封闭式创新模式已不足以支持企业寻求高性能创新。相反，企业迫切需要寻找外部知识资源以实现其创新目标。现有关于企业管理中开放式创新的研究未能充分阐述外部知识搜索如何对持续创新和颠覆性创新产生影响的机制。在本研究中，根据知识基础理论，将外部知识搜索分为三类，即科学知识搜索、市场知识搜索和供应链知识搜索。在考虑管理者注意力焦点的调节作用的同时，我们分析了从制造企业收集的485份问卷的统计结果，以阐述专业知识搜索如何对持续创新和颠覆性创新产生影响的机制。我们的研究结论有望丰富现有的关于企业创新影响因素的研究，包括但不限于持续创新和颠覆性创新。此外，研究结果有望在总结以往理论观点的同时奠定实证基础，同时为后续深入研究提供参考。此外，本文还提出了切实可行的管理措施和建议，使发展中国家的企业能够搜索并有效地将外部知识转化为创新成果。最后但同样重要的是，本研究有望为企业通过知识搜索进一步促进创新提供理论和实践指导。
