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| The Influence of External Connection on R&D Personnel′s Exploratory Innovation |
| Jiang Xiujuan,Gao Yufeng,Zhang Shengping,Liang Yaqi |
| (College of Economics and Management,Shandong University of Science and Technology,Qingdao 266590,China) |
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Abstract It has become an important way for enterprises to obtain abundant heterogeneous resources by using external cooperative networks to promote exploratory innovation.As the main role of enterprise innovation activities,R&D personnel's external connection in the cooperation network will affect their individual exploratory innovation,which in turn will affect the overall exploratory innovation performance of the enterprise.Based on the theory of social network,considering the moderating effect of internal direct connection and diversity of external cooperative network,the conceptual model of the influence of external connection on R&D personnel’s exploratory innovation is established,and research hypotheses are proposed.The study is based on the patent data of Huawei & ZTE,the representative enterprise of China's electronic information manufacturing industry,which is authorized by the National Patent Office,and the hypotheses are tested empirically with negative binomial regression model.The results show that there is a significant inverted U-type relationship between R&D personnel's external connection and its exploratory innovation; The internal direct connection,the members diversity of the external cooperative network and the knowledge diversity of the external cooperative network have significant negative moderating effect on the inverted U-type relationship.
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Received: 24 August 2020
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