The impact of trust and contract on innovation performance: The moderating role of environmental uncertainty

2011 ◽  
Vol 134 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Longwei Wang ◽  
Jeff Hoi Yan Yeung ◽  
Min Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moderating Role

Environment uncertainty and a firm’s strategic change the moderating role of political connection and family ownership

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-327
Author(s):  
Kai Wang ◽  
Massimiliano Matteo Pellegrini ◽  
Jiaan Xue ◽  
Cizhi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Change ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Family Ownership ◽  
Political Connection ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Strategic Changes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moderating Role

Purpose Strategic change is integral to the survival and development of firms. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of environmental uncertainty on a firm’s strategic change and further demonstrates the moderating role of political connection and family ownership on the relationship between environmental uncertainty and a firm’s strategic change. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses the population sample of Chinese firms listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the Shanghai Stock Exchange from 2008 to 2014 and quantitatively tests hypotheses through correlation analysis, regression analysis and other methods. Findings Environmental uncertainty has a positive effect on the degree of strategic changes made. Political connection and family ownership negatively moderate the impact of the two dimensions of environmental uncertainty (environmental dynamism and environmental munificence) on strategic changes. Originality/value Conclusions enrich the research of other studies on firms’ strategic changes. From an open systems perspective, this paper reveals the influences of external environmental factors on firms’ strategic changes. In addition to this, in analyzing the ways in which environmental uncertainty affects a firm’s strategic change, the research expands the application scope of information processing theory and resource-based view. This paper also provides significant practical observations on firms’ strategic decision making in this area.

How user-driven innovation and employee intrapreneurship promote platform enterprise performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (12) ◽  
pp. 2705-2723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhai Wan ◽  
Longjun Liu ◽  
Xinxin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Southern China ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cooperative Relationships ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moderating Role

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of user-driven innovation (UDI) and employee intrapreneurship (EI) on the innovation performance of platform enterprises through the mediating role of market intelligence responsiveness (MIR) and the moderating role of knowledge and information resource acquisition (KRA and IRA, respectively) between MIR and innovation performance.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 167 platform enterprises in northern, eastern and southern China with survey questionnaires. Participants were mainly middle and senior managers with a comprehensive grasp of the enterprises' information.FindingsThe results indicated that both UDI and EI, particularly synergy, positively influenced the innovation performance of platform enterprises. Furthermore, higher innovation performance resulted from high congruence between UDI and EI, and the innovation performance of enterprises increased when UDI and EI shifted from being incongruent to congruent. Lastly, MIR played a mediating role in this relationship, and both KRA and IRA played a positive moderating role between MIR and innovation performance.Practical implicationsPlatform enterprises should pay attention to external users and internal employees to achieve their development goals and establish tripartite cooperative relationships involving firms, employees and users. Enabling platform enterprises to develop continually and in a healthy way requires the integration and utilization of all types of resources.Originality/valueThis was an empirical study on the impact mechanism of employees and users on the innovation performance of platform enterprises in China.

Innovation dimensions and business performance under environmental uncertainty

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 856-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Kafetzopoulos ◽  
Evangelos Psomas ◽  
Dimitris Skalkos
Keyword(s):  
Business Performance ◽  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Dimensional Structure ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Latent Factors ◽  
Manufacturing Firm ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the dimensions of innovation on manufacturing firm performance taking into consideration the moderating role of environmental uncertainty among these relationships. Design/methodology/approach A research study was carried out using a sample of 580 Greek manufacturing firms. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were applied to extract and validate the latent factors. K-means cluster analysis was also applied in order to group the responding firms. Finally, the structural relationships among the latent factors were determined through structural equation modeling. Findings According to the study findings, only three dimensions of innovation performance directly contributes to business performance. Moreover, this paper shows the differential effects of firm innovativeness on business performance under the influence of environmental uncertainty. Research limitations/implications The sample of the responding firms which is limited to the Greek manufacturing sector and the subjective business evidence coming from only one firm representative constitute the main limitations of the present study. Practical implications Firms can properly manage innovation dimensions. In case of high uncertainty, they should focus on product, marketing and process innovation, while in case of low uncertainty the focus should be on process, organization and product innovation. Originality/value Based on the multi-dimensional structure, this empirical study determines the contribution of innovation performance to business performance taking into consideration the role of environmental uncertainty as moderator on this relationship.

Environmental Uncertainty and Firm Performance: The Moderating Role of Corporate Governance

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
Reyry Aprisma, Erina Sudaryati
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Sampling Techniques ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moderating Role

This research aimed to examine the effect of environmental uncertainty on firm performance. This research added corporate governance as a moderating variable. The research samples were manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the period 2014-2018 which were selected using purposive sampling techniques. The samples analyzed were 442 company data. The result showed that environmental uncertainty has a negative effect on firm performance. The result indicated environmental uncertainty causes operating expenses to increase so that the firm performance decreases. In addition, the results showed that corporate governance reduced the effect of environmental uncertainty on firm performance. The result indicated corporate governance is able to reduce the impact of environmental uncertainty so that firm performance increases.

DOES STRONGER R&D CAPABILITY ALWAYS PROMOTE BETTER INNOVATION? THE MODERATING ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE BOUNDARY SPANNING OF R&D NETWORK

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (07) ◽  
pp. 1850059 ◽  
Author(s):  
YANHUI JIANG ◽  
CHONGYANG WEI ◽  
ZHI YANG ◽  
ULAGANATHAN SUBRAMANIAN
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Spanning ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Innovation Strategies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

Setting the research background in China, this study draws on absorptive capacity, knowledge inertia and prospect theory to show the relationship between R&D capability and innovation performance which comprises exploitation and exploration. We propose that stronger R&D capability promotes exploitation performance but inhibits exploration performance. As exploitation represents immediate interest and exploration represents long-term interest, we introduce the notion of knowledge boundary spanning of R&D network to balance short-term and long-term benefits. The empirical results show that R&D capability and knowledge boundary spanning of R&D network complement each other for explorative innovation while they present trade-offs for exploitative innovation. This study contributes to existing literature on R&D capability–innovation performance, and it further extends our understanding by investigating the impact of knowledge boundary spanning of R&D network on the R&D capacity–innovation performance relationships. In addition, this study provides references on resources configuration to achieve different innovation strategies.

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