以制度理论和资源基础观为理论基础,首次基于战略柔性的独特视角探讨了制度支持对于企业绩效的影响机制,并进一步检验了技术能力这一重要的组织特征在制度支持与战略柔性关系中的调节作用。对广东省广州、深圳、珠江、东莞以及佛山等10余个城市的300家企业600名高管进行问卷调查,最终获得了186家企业样本。实证研究发现,制度支持能够显著地提高企业绩效,并且战略柔性在其中发挥了完全的中介作用,而技术能力在制度支持和战略柔性的关系中则具有显著的负向调节作用。研究结果表明,考虑战略柔性和技术能力这2个重要因素可以更好地阐释制度支持对企业绩效的影响机制,这为制度理论在获取企业竞争优势中的发展与应用提供了重要的借鉴意义。
Based on institutional theory and resource based view (RBV), the study first explores the mediating role of strategic flexibility and the moderating role of technological capability in the rela- tionship between institutional support and firm performance. We investigate 600 executives from 300 companies located in more than 10 cities of Guangdong province, involving Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhujiang, Dongguan and Foshan etc. Finally, with 186 valid samples, we find that institutional sup- port has significant impact on firm performance and strategic flexibility plays the fully mediating role in this relationship. Furthermore, technological capability significantly moderates the relationship be- tween institutional support and strategic flexibility. The study shows that we can better explain how institutional support affects firm performance by taking strategic flexibility and technological capabili- ty into consideration, and our empirical results provide important implications for the development and application of institutional theory in gaining the competitive advantage.