Influence Of Firms' Social Network On Innovation Capability In Chinese Scenario

Since the independent innovation strategy has risen to China's basic science and technology strategy,innovation in the firm-level has become more and more important in China's science and technology development.It has become an important topic of innovation research in the Chinese scenario in the new era to resolve the problem of how to better allocate and coordinate innovation resources.So as to make the cooperation between various departments of the enterprise as the main body can develop in a direction that more conducive to innovation and economic efficiency.No firm can exist in isolation,it always establish a certain connection with the other part of the world.Interfirm connections are part of these connections.The most essential point of Schumpeter's innovative theory is that innovation requires entrepreneurs to achieve new combination through a forward-looking vision of the social resources and needs of the outside world.Even if entrepreneurs are already owners of certain companies,they must innovate by combining resources outside of existing portfolios.Therefore,after the innovation theory is put forward,the connection between the firms and the external world has attracted more and more attention from scholars.Many new concepts has been extensively studied such as search in evolutionary innovation theory,integration in dynamic capabilities theory,acquisition and transformation in absorptive capacity theory,market intelligence in market-oriented theory,and not-here-invention in open innovation theory.The study of social networks and innovation capabilities among enterprises is also an important part of these studies.However,there are still many controversies in the current research on the relationship between interfirm social networks and innovation capabilities,especially in the mechanism of the impact of interfirm social networks on innovation capabilities in Chinese scenario.The existing research results have significant heterogeneity,while the time lag effect of the relationship between interfirm social networks and innovation capabilities remains to be further studied.In addressing to these theoretical and practical issues,this study is devoted to the the impact of interfirm social networks on innovation capabilities in the Chinese scenario.The main research contents include:First,this study sorts out the important literatures of innovation capabilities research through the collection and screening of innovation capabilities research.Through the comparative analysis of the unity and heterogeneity of innovation capabilities research in different scenario of these documents,the concept of Chinese scenario was defined,and the Chinese contextual factors that influence the innovation capabilities of enterprises were identified.Furthermore,through the citation analysis of the research on innovation capabilities,the relationship between the theoretical background and the theory of innovation capabilities research is summarized,and the concept of enterprise innovation capabilities is defined,and the representation of innovation capabilities theory in Chinese context is realized.The study summarizes the theoretical basis and conceptual model of the social network's ability to influence innovation in the Chinese context.Secondly,through the combination of meta-analysis method and structural equation model,the mechanism of the influence of corporate social network on innovation capabilities under the Chinese scenario in the existing research is verified.Through combing the summary of past research,this paper proposes the empirical theoretical framework formed by the existing research.According to the social capital theory,the social network variables are divided into three dimensions: structural dimension,relational dimension and cognitive dimension.The social network is analyzed for innovation capabilities and innovation.The different effects of performance and the role of absorptive capacity in the relationship between corporate social networks and innovation capabilities.This will lay the foundation for the subsequent analysis,and through this analysis to determine the theoretical mechanism of the current research remains to be further studied.Then,through three empirical analysis,the mechanism of the innovation capabilities of firm's social network in Chinese scenario is studied in more depth.First,in view of the shortcomings in the existing research on the direct impact measurement model of the impact of corporate social networks on innovation capabilities,the three-stage DEA method is used to exclude the influence of social network variables from the efficiency of firms' innovation input and output.By constructing the social network of Chinese listed companies,it is verified that the innovation capabilities has a significant correlation with a firm's position in the social network,and there is a significant time-lag effect.At the same time,it is verified that in the Chinese scenario,the type of firm's ownership is an important source of difference of the influence of the social network on innovation capacities.Secondly,using the threshold regression model,the technical accumulation effect between the firm's social network and the innovation capabilities in the Chinese scenario was studied.The empirical analysis analyzes the heterogeneity of different social network attributes on the innovation capabilities under different levels of technology accumulation.Thirdly,using the time lag distribution model transformed by Almon polynomial hysteresis distribution,combined with the necessary condition analysis theory,the time lag effect of firm's social network on the innovation capabilities of enterprises is analyzed.Finally,based on the identification of Chinese scenario's elements and the impact of firms' social capital on innovation capabilities,we conducted a multi-objective programming modeling and simulation for the mechanism of the interfirm social network influencing innovation capabilities under the influence of Chinese scenario factors.From the goal of maximizing the benefits of social networks under the Chinese scenario factors that emphasize the knowledge sharing environment,the relationship network,and the national innovation system,the goal of the firm's dual innovation equilibrium that emphasize changes the scenario from imitative gradual innovation to independent innovation,the goal of minimizing environmental pollution that emphasize continuous development and corporate ethical environmental,a simulation model was established.Taking the Chinese automobile industry as an example,the three companies with current operational problems,including FAW Xiali,Dongfeng Motor and Lifan,were selected as cases.The path of innovation capabilities improvement was studied through simulation analysis.Hence,from the two aspects of government policy recommendations and firm's strategic strategy recommendations,we put forward some countermeasures and suggestions for improving the innovation capabilities through reasonable social network strategy in the Chinese scenario.