Liao Suqin, Wei Jingjing, Hu Qianying
School of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Front Psychol. 2023 May 23;14:1112240. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1112240. eCollection 2023.
Despite business model innovation being the object of much interest, limited attention has paid on how and when knowledge management capabilities enhance business model innovation in the literature. Build upon institutional theory and knowledge-based view, we seek to investigate how knowledge management capabilities affect the business model innovation by exploring the dual role of different types of legitimation motivations in triggering knowledge management capabilities, and moderating the relationship between knowledge management capabilities, and business model innovation. The data collected from the 236 Chinese new ventures running their businesses across a variety of sectors. The results indicate the both political and market legitimation motivation positively affect knowledge management capabilities. The relationship between knowledge management capabilities and business model innovation are more strongly in high motivation to achieve market legitimacy. However, the positive effect of knowledge management capabilities stimulate business model innovation is more strongly in moderately motivation to achieve political legitimacy than in low or highly political legitimation motivation. The paper has significantly contributed to advancing the body of knowledge of institutional and business model innovation theory and providing deeper insights on the correlation between firm's motivation to achieve legitimacy and knowledge management capabilities for business model innovations.
尽管商业模式创新备受关注，但在文献中，对于知识管理能力如何以及何时促进商业模式创新的关注却很有限。基于制度理论和知识基础观，我们试图通过探讨不同类型的合法化动机在触发知识管理能力以及调节知识管理能力与商业模式创新之间关系方面的双重作用，来研究知识管理能力如何影响商业模式创新。数据收集自236家跨行业经营的中国新创企业。结果表明，政治合法化动机和市场合法化动机均对知识管理能力产生积极影响。在实现市场合法性的高动机下，知识管理能力与商业模式创新之间的关系更强。然而，知识管理能力促进商业模式创新的积极效应在实现政治合法性的适度动机下比在低或高政治合法化动机下更强。本文对推进制度和商业模式创新理论的知识体系做出了重大贡献，并为企业实现合法性的动机与商业模式创新的知识管理能力之间的相关性提供了更深入的见解。
