文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Relationship between Technological Diversification of Social Network and Technological Innovation Performance: Empirical Evidence from China

作者：Du, Junshu[1];Lu, Jintao[2];Guo, Yi[1]

机构：[1]E China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Business, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[2]Northwestern Polytech Univ, Sch Management, Xian 710072, Peoples R China

年份：2015

卷号：20

期号：1

起止页码：60

外文期刊名：SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000356630700004)】；

基金：We are grateful to Krishna V.V. (Editor in Chief) and the two anonymous referees of the journal who offered many valuable comments and suggestions for improving the paper. The authors also would like to acknowledge the MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Science (Grant No. 13YJC630138) for economic funding and support of the study.

语种：英文

摘要：Previous literatures about the relationship between social network and technological innovation performance were mostly from the perspective of network structure characteristics, while rarely considering the effect of composition of a firm's social network on technical innovation. This paper provides models to examine the relationship between technological diversification and technological innovation performance, as well as the moderating effects of absorptive capability. Using survey data from a sample of 134 Chinese machinery and equipment manufacturing firms, the empirical results showed that there was an inverted U-shaped relationship between the technological diversification and technological innovation performance, indicating that technological diversification of network made the highest technological innovation performance. We also found that all three dimensions (identification & acquisition, assimilation & absorption and transformation & exploitation) of absorptive capacity had significant positive effect on technological innovation performance, and the stronger the first two dimensions was, the higher value the technological innovation performance with technological diversification got. Enterprise managers were suggested to weigh the technological diversification and specialisation of the technological development in practice, as well as strengthen their absorptive ability that would reap the highest technological innovation performance. In sum, theoretical research was enriched about the relationship between technological diversification of social network analysis and technological innovation; on the other hand, guidelines for enterprise technology development in practice were provided.