Supplier change, market competition and enterprise innovation

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to study enterprise innovation in the perspective of external supplier relationship. On this purpose, this paper examines the impact of supplier change on enterprise innovation with the moderating role of market competition.Design/methodology/approachUsing 2012–2020 empirical data of Chinese listed manufacturing enterprises, this paper investigates the relationship among supplier change, market competition and enterprise innovation through a two-way interaction model.FindingsThe results show that supplier change has a negative impact on enterprise innovation. And market competition intensifies the negative relationship between supplier change and enterprise innovation. Additional analyses indicate that the main effect and the moderating effect are more significant when the enterprise is non-state-owned or has lower ownership concentration.Originality/valueThis paper studies enterprise innovation from the perspective of external stakeholders. It focuses on supplier relationship in a dynamic variation view, instead of the traditional static ones. Moreover, this paper explores the contingency effect of market competition and gives practical implications for managers to adjust innovation strategy flexibly.

Enterprise Innovation, Executive Experience and Internationalization Strategy: Evidence From High-Carbon Industrial Enterprises Versus Low-Carbon Industrial Enterprises in China

Industrial enterprises are the core subjects to reduce carbon emissions. Their innovations for low-carbon production are the key to determine the effect of carbon emission reduction. This paper examines the impact of executive experience, especially the overseas experience, on enterprise innovations across 3559 enterprises in low-carbon, medium-carbon and high-carbon industries respectively. Interestingly, it shows that the executive experience has only played a significant role in enterprise innovations of high-carbon industrial enterprises, indicating that the executive’s international vision might help to promote innovation in high-carbon industry. Then, it’s also discovered that there is a mediating effect of international strategy which helps to better understand the impact mechanism of executive experience on enterprise innovation in high-carbon industry.

ACCOUNTING AND ANALYTICAL SUPPORT OF REGISTRATION OF OWNERSHIP RIGHT FOR INNOVATION PRODUCT

Intellectual property objects are the driving force in the development of science and technology. The problem of accounting of intellectual property objects in the context of attribution of authorship on someone else's development and application of effective means of protection of innovation product in conditions of unfair competition is actualized. The main task of the enterprise innovation development is to form its accounting and analytical support, which should help to expand the possibilities of forming and using their innovative potential, that is why the work is urgent and timely. Systematized accounting accounts and typical holding, which can be used for purchase and sale of licenses. The analysis of introduced innovations and patents was carried out. The reasons of decrease of the number of registered objects of intellectual property were revealed. The focus is on know-how as an object of intangible assets and the main forms of documentary confirmation of the introduction and disposal OF the object ON are systematized. Methodological recommendations on patent registration have been developed.

Information technology investment and innovation performance: does investment paradox exist?

Purpose The purpose of this study is to deepen the understanding of the effects of information technology (IT) investment on firm innovation performance and examining the investment paradox effect in China. Design/methodology/approach Using a sample of China’ public firms IT investment data between 2010 and 2016, the authors establish a test model of IT investment and innovation performance. Findings The result indicates that IT investment in firms have no effect on innovation performance in the investment period. However, in the full sample and manufacturing sample, the IT investment has a significant positive effect on innovation performance in the post-investment years. In addition, this study finds that large companies and low-age companies may contribute more to innovation when firm investment in IT. Research limitations/implications There are several limitations in this research. First, the authors are failed to obtain a larger sample about the IT investment information data set in China, so this study was compelled to use limited sample data from China, hence, this could lead to errors of too early generalization. Second, the authors use the number of invention patent applications to represent the performance of enterprise innovation, which may not show enterprise innovation effectively. Third, the firms in the sample are all in China Listed Companies, so this may not accurately reflect the entire environment of firm innovation performance, and could possibly. Practical implications The research confirms that there is a paradox and time lag effect in IT investment, which enterprises should pay attention to. Originality/value Existing research confirms that corporate IT investments can bring new products or services. However, the authors still do not know whether IT investment has improved the company’s ability of innovation. This study will fill this gap and the industry effect and time lag effect of the influence of IT investment on innovative performance are also examined.

Security Regulation and Enterprise Innovation in Communication Industry

This paper conducted an evolutionary game model of the interaction between the governments and communication enterprises and analyzed the impact of the government’s communication security regulation on the innovation decision-making of communication enterprises. The results show that the behavior of the governments depends on the social benefits, rent-seeking benefits, and regulating costs in strict and de security regulations. The communication enterprises’ behavior depends on the benefits of innovation and the costs in R&D and rent-seeking. When government subsidies are relatively inadequate, the communication enterprises’ strategy under government security regulation swings from not-innovation finally to innovation. The policy implications of this study indicate that appropriate de security regulation by the government will help communication enterprises generate a good atmosphere for innovation, and the appropriate increase in subsidies will be more conducive to driving enterprise innovation.

Top Management Team Knowledge Hiding and Enterprise Innovation Performance: A Moderated Mediation Model

Top management team (TMT) knowledge hiding, which is not only related to the normal operation of the team but also closely related to enterprise innovation performance, has been paid little attention to in the previous studies. Based on the theories of upper echelons, knowledge management, and innovation, this study proposed a moderated mediation model to research how TMT knowledge hiding affected enterprise innovation performance. In this model, TMT knowledge hiding was the independent variable, TMT creativity was the mediating variable, enterprise innovation performance was the dependent variable, and team competitive climate was the moderating variable. MPLUS7.0 was used for the CFAs to evaluate the discriminate validities of the key variables, and SPSS 22.0 was used to calculate the descriptive statistics, analyze the correlations between variables, make the multiple regression analysis, and process the data obtained from 612 executives in 53 TMTs. The results showed that TMT knowledge hiding had a significant negative impact on enterprise innovation performance; TMT creativity had a partial mediating effect between TMT knowledge hiding and enterprise innovation performance, and team competitive climate had a moderating effect on the relationship between TMT knowledge hiding and TMT creativity. These research results fill up the gap of the theoretical research in TMT knowledge hiding and provide scientific guidance to reasonably reduce or eliminate the phenomenon of TMT knowledge hiding and improve enterprise innovation performance.

Coordinating the Overall Situation at China and Abroad

This report explains Coordinating the overall situation at China and abroad during 20 years. Considering the importance of domestic and foreign situations, China needs to adopt a global perspective, strengthen strategic thinking, grasp development opportunities, and respond to risks and challenges in the context of changes in the international situation. The report also put forward the requirements of enterprise innovation, through the courage to change, the courage to innovate and never fossilized, never stagnant efforts, not to be afraid of any risks, not to be confused by any interference of the firm will, promote the theoretical innovation, institutional innovation, cultural innovation.

Innovative Energy-Saving Technology Management Model in the Company Sustainable Development System

The development of innovative activity conditions an increase in the level of awareness of the enterprise employees about organizational goals, strategic and tactical development plans, industry trends, and the problem of engineering and management nature. The study’s purpose consists of substantiating the theoretical-methodological principles and developing practical recommendations for creating a company energysaving innovation activity management model. The methodological platform of the study is the set theory for building a model for determining the effectiveness of the management system of innovation activities of the enterprise. As a result, a model for monitoring parameters characterizing the effectiveness of enterprise innovation activity management system is proposed. In conclusion, the developed analytical-process model allows managers to quickly assess the current state of the enterprise innovation activity management system and reasonably make regulatory decisions concerning its improvement.