近些年来,学者对企业绩效差异形成的原因探索已经从企业内部因素转移到企业外部的关系因素上来。本研究以组织间学习理论和双元理论为基础,使用254份高技术企业的研究样本,探究了关系学习对企业绩效的影响机制,尤其是探索了双元创新在关系学习和企业绩效之间的中介作用。实证研究结果表明,在不考虑其他因素的条件下,关系学习的三个子维度(信息共享、共同理解、特定关系记忆)对企业绩效具有显著的正向影响作用;在将双元创新纳入到研究模型之后,双元创新分别在信息共享以及特定关系记忆与企业绩效之间起到中介作用假设获得支持;但是双元创新对共同理解和企业绩效之间的中介作用假设没有获得支持,所以双元创新在关系学习和企业绩效之间起到部分中介作用。最后对本文的研究局限性进行讨论并对未来研究方向提出可行性建议。考虑双元创新这个重要因素可以更好的解析关系学习对企业绩效的影响机制,能够为转型经济背景下的企业开展关系学习活动和提升双元创新能力提供有益的参考。
In recent years, scholars have explored the causes of firm performance differences and have transferred the study of the causes from intemal factors to external factors. Based on the theory of inter-organizational learning theory and ambidexterity theory, this paper explores the impact of relational learning on firm performance, especially exploring the mediating role of ambidextrous innovation in the relationship between relational learning and firm performance, by using a sample including 254 high-tech firms. The empirical results show that, without considering other factors, three sub-dimensions of relational learning (information sharing, joint sense-making, relationship-specific memory )have significant positive effects on firm performance; After putting ambidextrous innovation into the research model, ambidextrous innovation plays fully the mediating role respectively in the relationship between information sharing and firm performance, and between relationship-specific memory and firm performance. But the mediating role of ambidextrous innovation in the relationship between joint sense-making and firm performance is not supported, So ambidextrous innovation plays a partial mediating role in the relationship between relational learning and firm performace. It discusses the limitations of the research and puts forward the practical recommendations for future research. And it shows that ambidextrous innovation can better analyze the impact of relational learning on firm performance, and the results can provide useful reference for firms to carry out relational learning activities and enhance ambidextrous innovation ability under the background of transitional economy.