对于制造企业工艺创新动力源问题的研究有助于从根源上理解工艺创新这一复杂行为的产生动因,从而推动企业通过持续性工艺创新获得竞争优势。基于国内外现有研究成果,本文提出了IT驱动制造企业工艺创新产生的五个假设。在此基础上构建了IT进步I、T设备供应商、政府IT政策I、T范围经济I、T能力与工艺创新动力源关系的理论框架,并选择我国229家制造企业为研究对象,对所提假设运用结构方程模型(SEM)和AMOS17.0软件进行参数估计和模型修正。修正模型的结果表明五种IT动力源对工艺创新均具有积极的正向驱动作用,因此所提出的五个假设全部获得支持,但其驱动总效应不同,其中IT进步的驱动总效应最大,其他动力源按照驱动总效应递减顺序依次为IT范围经济I、T设备供应商I、T能力和政府IT政策。
Studying on process innovation power sources of manufacturing enterprises could help understanding the original moti-vation of enterprise process innovation,which is the complex behavior,and would promote enterprises to gain competitive advan-tages by sustainable process innovation.Based on the current research achievements at home and abroad,five hypotheses on IT-driven process innovation in manufacturing enterprises are proposed.Then,the research framework for the relationship among IT progress,IT equipment suppliers,government IT policy,IT economic scope,and IT capabilities and process innovation’s power source is constructed,and 229 manufacturing enterprises in China are chosen as the research objects.The hypotheses being pro-posed are estimated and modified by Structural Equation Model(SEM) together with the software of AMOS17.0.The results of the modified model show that all of the five power sources have the positive driving effect;therefore all of the five hypotheses are supported.However,the total driving effects are different for the sources,IT progress has the most significant effect,and others in the successive order of diminishing driving effect are IT economic scope,IT equipment suppliers,IT capabilities,and govern-ment IT policy.