A Study On The Relationship Between Organizational Slack And Technology Innovation

Since 1980s, most research regarding firm competitive advantage strategy focuses on the relationship between organizational factors and firm performance, either using resource-based view or capability-based view. The findings with resource-based view and capability-based view cannot illustrate the essential characteristics of forming and maintaining firm competitive advantages when the environmental changing greatly. The present dissertation proposes an integrated resource & capability-based view, which expounds the basic principles and forming paths to achieve firm competitive advantage under super-competitive environment. In order to expound the rationality and effectiveness of the integrated resource & capability-based view, this dissertation proposes a structural equation model which consists of organizational slack, absorptive capabilities and technology innovation factors, and empirically tests the model with data from a questionnaire. 552 firms in Gangdong, Sandong, Sichuan, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shanghai participated in this questionnaire. Based on the paths relationship tested in the model, the dissertation further examines the moderation function of absorptive capabilities which moderate the relationship between the organizational slack and the innovation. Results show that there is an inherent relationship between certain slacks (absorbed slacks) and relative innovations (product innovation and process innovation), and different...