Research On The Influence Of Enterprises’ Network Features On The Innovation Performance

With the further development of the global economic integration, enterprise network has become a new form of organizational structure among enterprises. Enterprise network has obvious advantages in many aspects include enterprises ’ overall professional skill level and enterprises’ overall quality. With the help of enterprise network,enterprises can make resource integration,acquire advanced technologies,know about the market requirement and adjust the innovative direction to lower enterprises’ innovation risk and to increase enterprises’ economic benefit. Under such economic background,research of the influence of enterprises’ network features on the innovation performance can fundamentally clarify relationship between enterprises’ network features and innovation performance,which is extremely helpful to improve innovation performance in effective ways by taking full use of advantage effect that brought by features of enterprise network.After the research of previous relevant literatures,referred theories of the research are stated firstly in the paper. Based on this,model of the influence of enterprises’ network features on innovation performance is built in the paper. Take organizational learning and innovation performance as intermediary variables, effect of enterprises’ network features to innovation performance is researched. After sorting previous literatures,three dimensions are used in the paper to express network features: intermediary position,connection strength and network size. Relevant data of the research are acquired by giving out online and paper questionnaires. Questionnaires are geared to basic-level,middle-level and senior managements and technicians in industries include technological industry, knowledge service industry and traditional manufacturing industry,and 206 validated questionnaires are acquired. After collecting and sorting data, SPSS17.0 is used to make reliability and validity analysis of the data,to make the correlation analysis and regression analysis among each variable and to check the intermediary effect to analyze and validate research hypothesis in the paper. The positive effect of enterprises’ network features to innovation performance and the intermediary effect of the organizational learning and innovation input to enterprises’ innovation performance are validated. In the end, according to relevant conclusions of the research,several suggestions are provided about how to make use of enterprises’ network features to fully play roles of organizational learning and innovation input to improve enterprises ’ innovation performance.