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| Research on the Impact of External Knowledge Search on Technological Innovation of Manufacturing Firms |
| Wang Juanru,Li Ping |
| (School of Management, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China) |
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Abstract Knowledge is the foundation of firms' technological innovation.Firms should not only search for external knowledge, but also have the ability of knowledge orchestration.Drawing on the knowledge-based theory and the resource orchestration theory, we analyze the influence of the two dimensions of external knowledge search on technological innovation of firms and discuss the mediating role of knowledge orchestration capacity and the moderating role of innovation willingness.The empirical results show that both search breadth and search depth have significant positive impact on knowledge orchestration capacity, and knowledge orchestration capacity has significant positive impact on firms' technological innovation.Moreover, knowledge orchestration capacity plays a partial mediating role between the search breadth, search depth and firms' technological innovation, and innovation willingness plays a moderating role between knowledge orchestration capacity and firms' technological innovation.This paper reveals the internal mechanism of external knowledge search on firms' technological innovation and provides theoretical support for manufacturing firms to improve their knowledge orchestration capacity and technological innovation level.
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Received: 20 August 2019
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