The Empirical Study Of The Nonlinear Relationship Between Geography Boundry-spanning Search And Enterprise Product Innovation

How can geography boundry-spanning search affect enterprise product innovation?For innovation,in the current,open innovation paradigm has become the mainstream model of innovation,the role of searching external heterogeneous knowledge is growing.Therefore,more and more scholars,especially in the field of innovation and strategic management,have begun to focus on the impact of knowledge search across organizational boundaries on innovation.However,from a theoretical perspective,for existing studies on cross-border search,there are still two drawbacks:first,the existing cross-border search theory is mainly based on techniques and markets,but the research on the geography boundry-spanning search did not get enough attention;second,in the existing research,there is a big controversy that geography boundry-spanning search whether promote innovation.From a practical perspective,Chinese enterprises are actively implement the "going out" strategy that market expansion across geographic regions and knowledge search behavior is hyperactive,however,research on the Chinese context is also very scarce.In response to these problems in the theory and practice,this study,within the Suzhou Industrial Park,collected 270 manufacturing enterprise data that we use to examine the relationship between geography boundry-spanning search and product innovation in the context of China's transition economy.The empirical results show the relationship between geography boundry-spanning search and innovation is not a simple linear,but U shaped curvilinear relationship.The study further found that the relationship is also influenced by external market environment.Industry growth negatively regulates the relationship,but the intensity of competition in the industry has no significant effect on the relationship.