Study On Relationship Of Environmental Scanning,open Innovation And New Firm Growth

Under the trend of globalization,it is no denying that the free flow of resources,information and human resources will bring more opportunities and challenges to the survival and development of new firms.How to achieve the growth of new firms in a rapidly changing environment,to gain sustainable competitive advantage? This is a fundamental problem that new firm faces.New firm is the research focus of innovation and entrepreneurship management,and the innovative new firm is also an essential part of the dynamic process of economy development of country and areas.However,in the modern global environment,the growth process of new firm is full of uncertainty,facing structural flaws(scale,time,culture,management,capital)because of its characteristic of limited resource.Therefore,it is of great theoretical significance and practical value to study how new firms achieve positive growth,expansion and diversification.More and more business practices show that innovation is moving from closed innovation to open innovation.Open innovation provides new firms with more development opportunities and resources to promote their innovation development and commercialization,thus strengthens the innovation ability and marketing competitiveness of new firms.New firms need to have in-depth understanding of their business environment.Environmental scanning is a strategic tool for strategic decision making of managers,it can effectively search the important information of environment about events,trends and relationships help to grasp the environmental dynamics timely and accurately,discover opportunities and threats in the environment.New firms can frequently carry out formal or informal environmental scanning activities as well as search and dig in the environment about products / services(needs,ideas,feedback),competitors trends,technological innovation,industry trends,industrial policy changes and other aspects of the relevant information through the monitoring of environmental field(market,internal,technical,social,political and economic environment).It can provide an external and reliable source of knowledge for the firm's open innovation strategy,and it is conducive to the acquisition and utilization of external knowledge,and technology commercialization activities.Dynamic capabilities as the core capabilities of new firms,including the ability of identifying opportunities,adjusting to environment,organizing learning,combining resources and organizing flexibility.Environmental scanning can effectively improve the dynamic capability of new firms,and help the implementation of open innovation strategy,so as to promote the innovation process of new firms,lead to better innovation performance.So,the relationship problem between environmental scanning,open innovation and new firm growth becomes the key point of this research.Specially,this research chooses the new firms as research sample,and it investigates the characteristics of environmental scanning and open innovation as well as the influences to new firm growth.This research is mainly around the basic problem ?the relationship between environmental scanning,open innovation and new firm growth? to expand,following the path of theoretical exploration,model building and empirical test.To be specific,based on the resource based theory,environmental scanning theory,open innovation theory and firm growth theory as well as some related researches,this research develops total 11 research hypotheses related to the research content through theory analysis and logical derivation,and finally examines the research hypotheses by the means of structural equation method.Ten hypotheses are gaining obvious support,while one is not support.Finally,the conclusions are as follows:(1)environmental scanning has obvious positive effect on open innovation.(2)open innovation has obvious positive effect on new firm growth.(3)environmental scanning has obvious positive effect on dynamic capabilities of new firm.(4)dynamic capabilities has obvious positive effect on new firm growth.(5)dynamic capabilities has significant positive adjustment for the relationship between inbound open innovation and new firm growth,dynamic capabilities has not obvious adjustment for the relationship between outbound open innovation and new firm growth.(6)dynamic capabilities play positive intermediary role on the process of environmental scanning influences new firm growth.(7)environmental scanning has positive indirect effect on new firm growth.Above all,this study studies the environmental scanning,open innovation and its relationship with new firm growth,and the dynamic capabilities as a mediator and moderator respectively,carries out a large sample questionnaire survey focused on new firms,proposes the research hypothesis,builds the theoretical model,and analyzes the possible influence results.At the same time,this study surveys sample data of 347 new firms under the background of economic transformation of China,and makes an formal empirical study,expands the research framework of "environmental scanning�open innovation strategy�dynamic capabilities�new firm growth" under the background of open innovation,the conclusions also provide rich advice and inspiration for managers.In a word,this research not only enriches the research results of strategic management and open innovation,but also points out a way to promote the growth of new firms and obtain sustainable competitive advantage.