构建了企业间信任和学习对买卖双方创新绩效影响的理论模型,并将联合解决问题作为中介机制,来探索知识的传递和关系的紧密如何影响企业间的互动行为,以及这些因素对双方创新绩效的影响。通过对194家企业的实证研究,发现企业间信任和学习有利于促进企业间的联合解决问题行为,进而进一步提升企业的创新绩效,联合解决问题在此过程中扮演着部分中介的角色。并且验证了信任与学习之间有互补作用,两者的交互项对创新绩效的影响被联合解决问题完全中介。
To assess the effects of relational characteristics on innovation, this paper elaborates a theoretical framework that relates two aspects of tie characteristics-trust and learning-to the firm's subsequent innovation output. We argue joint problem solving arrangements play a prominent role in innovative capability acquisition by promoting the transfer of complex and difficult-to-codify knowledge and information sharing. Using survey data from a sample of 194 firms from mainland China, we demonstrate that trust and learning both have a positive impact on buyer innovativeness and seller innovativeness. We also find that trust and learning have a positive interaction effect. Furthermore, their effects and eomplementarities facilitate innovativeness because they facilitate joint problem solving at the firm level. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.