Research On The Relationship Among Empowerment,Strategic Flexibility And Management Innovation Of Smes

With the advance of country's supply-side structural reform and high quality and level development advance.As a large province of private economy,how should the small and medium-sized enterprises(occupy half of the advance)seize reform opportunities and realize innovative development has become the focus of the province's common concern.However,it still remains to be further discussed which innovation mode should smes choose,how to carry out innovation activities,and what factors will affect the implementation of innovation.In addition,the economic transformation of the environment lead to rising uncertainty,information technology revolution lead to the rising status of employees and external customers in the value chain.How to scientifically allocate resources,improve assistance capability,promote value co-creation and improve strategic flexibility to deal with external risks has become a hot issue in the field of strategic management.This paper proposes that it may be possible to promote management innovation through empowerment and strategic flexibility.Based on social exchange theory,value co-creation theory and open innovation theory,this study firstly sorts out the research status of empowerment,strategic flexibility and management innovation.Secondly,based on the existing theoretical research foundation,the possible interrelationships among the three are further analyzed,the relevant research hypotheses are proposed and the preliminary theoretical model is constructed.Thirdly,Smes in important cities of ZheJiang province were selected for questionnaire survey and interview records,then the data and model were empirically analyzed and tested with SPSS17.0 and AMOS21.0 statistical software.Here's what we found:1.Empowerment has a significant positive impact on strategic flexibility.Employee empowerment can significantly positively affect resource flexibility and coordination flexibility,while customer empowerment can significantly positively affect resource flexibility and coordination flexibility.2.Empowerment has a significant positive impact on management innovation.Employee empowerment has a significant positive impact on the adoption and implementation of management innovation,while customer empowerment has a significant positive impact on the adoption and implementation of management innovation.3.Strategic flexibility has a significant positive impact on management innovation.Resource flexibility has a significant positive impact on the adoption and implemen-tation of management innovation,while coordination flexibility has a significant positive impact on the adoption and implementation of management innovation.4.Strategic flexibility plays a significant mediating role in the process that empowerment has a significant positive impact on management innovation.Moreover,the indirect positive impact of empowerment on management innovation through strategic flexibility is far greater than the direct positive impact of empowerment on management innovation.Finally,based on the results of empirical tests and the interviews with Smes,this paper puts forward three suggestions:1.Firstly,building an enterprise management platform with empowerment as the core,and changing "organizational control" to "platform empowerment ".Through empowering staff and customers,establishing " Value community ",designing mechanisms of power and responsibility division,resource support,value creation and benefit sharing,Smes will win the management innovation advantage,cross-border innovation advantage,ecological innovation advantages and the opportunity of new kinetic energy,new market opportunities,new product portfolio.Finally they will realize the stable improvement of management innovation and ideal state of symbiosis,share,and win-win between organization and stakeholders.2.Secondly,building an innovative development system characterized by manage-ment innovation,and changing "technological innovation" to "dual innovation".Adjusting the dynamic balance between technical innovation strength and non-technical innovation strength.Speeding up the management innovation construction of professional talent team,regulations,information platform and reconfiguration of existing resources and ability.Promoting the efficient implementation of management concepts,organizations,methods and cultural innovations to form own innovation advantage and achieve second innovation development.3.Thirdly,cultivating the ability support focusing on strategic flexibility,and changing the "change adaptor" to the "change leader".Through big data analysis,network interactive platform and other technologies to explore potential resources,improve the possibility of more resource allocation.Through improving the ability of effectively manage and operate resources,the utilization efficiency of resources can be improved steadily.Finally,through the coordination among the enterprise,employees and customers to adapt the change actively,makes further use of the change,and try to lead the change to cultivate good internal core competitiveness and external environment advantages for the development of management innovation activities and the acquisition of supporting resources,so as to improve the performance of management innovation activities.