| Innovation activities play an important role on labor employment and economic output of either developed or developing countries.In recent years,there is an increasing trend towards innovation activities of Chinese firms,but the achievement is limited.Given that the observation on current situation,a large number of firms perform excellent in every field.An interesting issue therefore is evoked in the same policy and economy environment.Which factor does lead to performance differences between every firm?Additionally,economic transition can be seen in China,hence economy and market institution tend to be unconstrained and developed.As a result,institution instability and voids could take place in this situation.In unstable environment that political and legal system keep changing,Chinese firms need urgently to make network strategy in order to create competitive advantage.In addition,managerial ties are widespread in Chinese business environment,which refer to social duty of seeking and offering privilege.Managerial ties construct social network of top managers who must abide by relationship rules,so that maintain satisfactory relationship status can be maintained by proper relationship activities.Top managers could take advantage of social networks as relationship networks insiders.According to discussion mentioned above,this dissertation proposes relationship model of TMT network characteristics,ambidextrous innovation,and firm competitive advantage based on four theories,including upper echelon theory,social network theory,knowledge-based view,and organizational ambidexterity theory.The purpose of the study is that it reveals the effect of three types of TMT network characteristics(including centrality,sparsity,and knowledge diversity)in ambidextrous innovation,and organizational knowledge creation process(including knowledge exchange and knowledge combination)plays as a mediator.Furthermore,it also analyses the effect of ambidextrous innovation on firm competitive advantage with the moderators of environmental dynamics and organizational structure organic.In the term of collecting data,the study uses questionnaire method.The research objects include firms from high-tech industries and traditional industries.We distribute questionnaires to CEOs,COOs,managing directors,investment directors,marketing directors,and so on.We finally collect 248 samples,which are from firms in northeast area(42.7%),north area(22.2%),southeast area(27.0%),and middle area(8.1%).As to method of analysing data,we use factor analysis,Pearson correlation analysis,multiple linear regression analysis,and et al.According to the result,the majority of hypotheses are supported by data.As shown in the result,TMT network characteristics affect positively to exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation,and organizational knowledge creation process(knowledge exchange and knowledge combination)play mediating role.Specifically,TMT network characteristics affect positively to organizational knowledge creation process,which affect positively to exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation.In the aspect of relationship between ambidextrous innovation and firm competitive advantage,part of hypotheses are supported by data,and part of hypotheses are opposite to data.In particular,the effect of exploratory innovation,exploitative innovation,and balanced dimension on firm competitive advantage are positive,while the one of combined dimension is negative.With regard to contingency factors,environment dynamics and organizational structure organic moderate positively the relationship between combined dimension and competitive advantage.But organizational structure organic moderates negatively the relationship between balanced dimension and competitive advantage,which the analysing result is opposite to the hypothesis.The study focuses on organizational ambidexterity theory which is a central issue of innovation management and organization management.Based on social network theory,we study network ties characteristics of top managers of Chinese firms and its acting path to open innovation,which in further contribute to create firm competitive advantage.Specifically,TMT network characteristics represent the capability of acquiring external resources and integrating internal resources.And staff can occupy knowledge exchange and knowledge combination,including explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge,hence they create new knowledge or its new combination forms.In this sense,exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation could be more active.In addition,competitive advantage creation could be often affected by external and internal environment,referring to environment dynamics and organizational organic as moderators.Therefore,the study contributes to expand social network theory,organizational ambidexterity theory,and open innovation theory,which shows theoretical innovativeness in four ways as follow:Firstly,in the study of TMT role on organizational ambidexterity,they focus mainly on TMT characteristics(referring to demographic characteristics et al.),team conflicting,and behavior integration,which impact innovation strategy choice and ambidexterity of firms.But there are some particularity in Chinese transition economy context.Because informal ties in business environment play important role as social capital,they could promote performance of ties owners and even organizations.In conclusion,we use social network theory and upper echelon theory to construct TMT network characteristics in order to study its impact on organizational ambidexterity.Secondly,the dimension research results of TMT network characteristics have not reached yet a consensus.And the majority of TMT network characteristics research focus on external social network part.Based on external bridging forms and internal bonding forms construction of social network,we divide TMT network characteristics into external TMT network characteristics and internal TMT network characteristics.Thirdly,current relationship research between TMT network characteristics and technology innovation view that there is a direct action.Through the intermediation roles of knowledge exchange and knowledge combination,we discuss indirect action from TMT network characteristics to ambidextrous innovation.Due to acquiring,internalizing,and cultivating knowledge action,exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation could be success in firms.Therefore,we integrate social network theory and knowledge-based view to discuss the dynamic process of creating competitive advantage.Fourthly,we consider issue of Chinese transition economy context,and then construct influence model of ambidextrous innovation and firm competitive advantage,with the contingency effect of external and internal environment.Specifically,external environment influence market acceptability,and internal environment impress the progress of exploratory innovation and Exploitative innovation.Based on contingency theory and competitive advantage exogenous and endogenous theory,we view environment dynamics and organizational structure organics as moderators to discuss the relationship of ambidextrous innovation and firm competitive advantage in different contexts. |
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