A Study On The Influence Of Corporate Relational Capital And Network Capability On Knowledge Transfer And Innovation Performance

Along with the trade globalization, market shapely changes and technological deep innovation, the enterprise competition get more and more intensified. In order to maintain competitive advantage, constantly technology innovating is the inevitable choice for enterprise. Technology innovation needs knowledge updating. However, it becomes more and more difficult for a single enterprise to fully grasp the cutting edge knowledge. So, scholars began to study the problems on corporate competition and growth from the aspect of enterprise network. The corporate relational capital, knowledge structure, network embedded behavior and corporate network capability etc may all influence the innovation performance of the enterprise. However compared to those established researches views, we do lack further discussion concerning the influence of external environment and enterprise network embedded behavior on enterprise innovation. Based on this satuation, the discussion on how corporate relational capital influences innovation performance and the role of enterprise network ability would be helpful to dig out the theoretical explanation between corporate relational capital and innovation performance from the network level. Also, it will help to dig out the deep-seated reasons for enterprises’obtaining innovation performance and competitive advantage, reveal why some enterprises can activate the relationship resources to obtain competitive advantage while others can’t under the homogeneous network background. That is the main problems this article will answer.This article has combined theoretical derivation and quantitative research methods and promoted a large sample questionnaire survey. More than that, empirical studies based on factor analysis and structural equation model have also been adopted to analyze corporate relational capital, which is measured by trust, commitment, specific investment, conflict management, effective communication and mutual action, to figure out enterprise knowledge transfer and innovation performance. At the same time, it focuses on the regulating effect of enterprise network capability on the relationship between enterprise relationship capital and knowledge transfer.Based on the above research logics and design ideas, the main research conclutions are as follow:Firstly, we extract the interactive relations between corporate relational capital and innovation performance. It is verified that all the six dimensions of corporate relational capital, including trust, commitment, specific investment, conflict management, effective communication and mutual action, play a positive role in promoting knowledge transfer. And knowledge transfer is advantageous to the promotion of enterprise’s innovation performance. Secondly, we excavate the path mechanism of how corporate relational capital influences innovation performance. Corporate relational capital can not affect innovation performance derectly, but through the intermediary role of knowledge transfer. Thirdly, we reveal the boundary conditions on the relationship between corporate relational capital and knowledge transfer from the perspective of the network environment. In other words, the enterprise network capacity plays a regulatory role on relationship between corporate relational capital and knowledge transfer. The higher the enterprise network capacity, the more significant of the role that relationship capital plays on knowledge transfer. But it is not significant in trust and commitment dimension.This article has made a breakthrough by discussing knowledge transfer and innovation from enterprise network aspects, rather than just analyzing performance improvement from technical and knowledge aspects. So it will help explaining enterprise innovation with new point of view. More than that, this article has explored the process mechanism of how corporate relational capital dimensions influence enterprise innovation performance which may open the "black box" in the research of relation between corporate relational capital and innovation performance. As for the introduction of enterprise network capacity variables, it reflects contextualized feature of enterprise relational capital’using efficiency under the influence by network capacity in the background of enterprise network embedded behavior.