Chen Yan, Du Huilin, Wang Dehan
Business School, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, China.
College of Economics and Management, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
Front Psychol. 2025 Mar 28;16:1493242. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1493242. eCollection 2025.
This study aimed to explore the relationship between executive cognition and the innovation performance of specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative small and medium sized enterprises (SRDI SMEs) in China, establish a theoretical framework of the influence mechanism of executive cognition on innovation performance of SRDI SMEs, and give some management implications for SRDI SMEs to improve innovation performance.
Through theoretical derivation, 409 valid questionnaires from 98 SRDI SMEs in China and statistical analysis techniques, this paper studied the effect of executive cognition of SRDI SMEs on innovation performance and its mechanism.
This study found that executive cognition has a significant positive impact on innovation performance, compositional capability plays an intermediary role between executive cognition and innovation performance, and organization routine updating enhances the positive relationship between executive cognition and compositional capability.
This study was among the first to investigate the relationship between executive cognition and innovation performance of SRDI SMEs.
本研究旨在探讨中国专精特新中小企业的高管认知与创新绩效之间的关系，建立高管认知对专精特新中小企业创新绩效影响机制的理论框架，并为专精特新中小企业提高创新绩效提供一些管理启示。
通过理论推导、对中国98家专精特新中小企业的409份有效问卷以及统计分析技术，本文研究了专精特新中小企业的高管认知对创新绩效的影响及其机制。
本研究发现，高管认知对创新绩效有显著的正向影响，组合能力在高管认知与创新绩效之间起中介作用，组织惯例更新增强了高管认知与组合能力之间的正向关系。
本研究是最早探讨专精特新中小企业高管认知与创新绩效关系的研究之一。
