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| Effect of Knowledge Worker Slack on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise's Ambidextrous Innovation: the Moderation Role of Environment Characteristic |
| Zou Zengming1,Liu Mingxia1,Zou Siming2 |
| (1.Economics and Management School,Wuhan University，Wuhan 420106,China；2.School of Business，Center South University of Forestry and Technology，Changsha 410004, China) |
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Abstract Knowledge worker bear the main responsibility of technological innovation in knowledge-based economy. A few studies discussed the influence of human resource slack on innovation, but how knowledge worker slack work on different types of innovation has not been referred to. Using panel data of 277 listed companies in Small and Medium-Sized Plate from year 2012 to 2017 as sample, this paper employed Poisson Model to analyze the relationship between knowledge worker slack and ambidextrous innovation. Then, try to probe the moderation role of external environment characteristic (such as development level of factor market and market uncertainty). Studies show that knowledge worker slack plays an inverted U-shaped role in both exploitative innovation and exploration innovation, that is to say, too much or too little knowledge worker slack is not good to conduct different types innovative activities; the moderating effect of different environmental characteristics are heterogeneous between them. The role knowledge worker slack plays on both exploitative innovation and exploration innovation is weaken by development level of factor market. The influence knowledge worker slack has on both exploitative innovation and exploration innovation is strengthened by market uncertainty.
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Received: 17 February 2021
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