The Effects Of Coopetition On Exploitative Innovation And Exploratory Innovation:from Business Units Perspective

In today's fast-changing and innovational knowledge economy era,the organization which only emphasizes the single aspect of competition or cooperation has not been able to meet the demands of the times.By combining competition and cooperation,coopetition brings the organization's continuous learning to adapt to external changes and has attracted extensive attention from academia and the business community.But the most of related researches in the field focused on the enterprise level,and research in the area still lacks insights into this phenomenon of coopetition among business units on the intra-organizational level.Business unit is the profit center of the enterprise,and business unit innovation is an effective way to improve its business performance and adapt to the external changes,and business unit innovation is also one of the most critical innovation activities of the enterprise.The existing researches of business innovation are mostly theoretical researches and to study the role of competition or cooperation in a fragmented way,ignoring the interaction between competition and cooperation,and the relationship between competition and innovation on business unit level remains to be further discussed.Therefore,it is of great theoretical contribution and practical significance to study the relationship between innovation and coopetition among business units.Drawing on organizational learning theory,this research explores the relationship between coopetition among business units and exploitative/exploratory innovation,as well as the moderating effect of work autonomy on the above relationships.Based on the survey data from 221 Chinese telecom business units,this research empirically tests the research model with stepwise regression.The relevant hypothesis testing of direct effect of competition among business units on exploitative innovation and exploratory innovation,and the moderating effect of work autonomy is carried out.Results show that coopetition among business units positively promotes exploitative innovation.where competition and cooperation have significant positive effect on exploitative innovation.Coopetition among business units positively promotes exploratory innovation,where cooperation has a significant positive effect on exploratory innovation,while the positive impact of competition on exploratory innovation is not significant.And work autonomy positively moderates the relationship between coopetition among business units and exploitative/exploratory innovation.In theory,this research promotes the related research of coopetition and innovation.In practice,this research provides theoretical reference for the innovation management of business unit and the internal management of enterprises.