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| The Impact of Alliance Management Capabilities on Enterprise Disruptive Technological Innovation in the Digital Economy Era |
| Li Fengshu1,2,Xu Yingjie3,Du Pengcheng1,Xu Jianzhong2 |
| （1.School of Business, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China；2.School of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China;3.School of Business, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China） |
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Abstract With the promotion of new technologies such as 5G networks and Artificial Intelligence (AI), the era of digital economy has arrived. However, in the era of the digital economy, a new round of industrial revolution is to take off, with industrial transformation and enterprise disruptive innovation becoming the new trend. Disruptive technological innovation is mainly based on non-mainstream markets, employing non-mainstream technologies to achieve cross-domain and cross-level technological breakthroughs and integration, thus promoting the optimization and upgrading of the innovation path and the ascent of the innovation value chain. It can be seen that disruptive technological innovation differs from incremental technological innovation in that it has an unpredictable innovation cycle, a high risk of innovation, and a consistently high cost of innovation. In such cases, companies usually respond to the scarcity of resources for disruptive technological innovation and the lack of innovation capacity by choosing partners and establishing alliances to obtain innovation resources. However, studies have pointed out that there are differences in corporate culture, organizational practices and benefit distribution among members of innovation alliances, and more than 60% of enterprise alliances end up in failure. Therefore, in the face of the failure of innovation alliances, which is detrimental to enterprise disruptive technological innovation, scholars believe that effective alliance management capabilities, as an ability to maintain, develop and upgrade inter-firm relationships, are conducive to the sustainable cooperation among the subjects of innovation alliance. Therefore, based on the above background, this paper constructs the relationship model between alliance management capabilities and enterprise disruptive technological innovation. In addition, the impact of alliance management capability on enterprise disruptive technological innovation is not a single mechanism of action, but should include both mediating mechanisms and moderating influences. Based on dynamic theory, this paper selects knowledge flow as the mediating variable and knowledge reconstruction ability as the moderating variable to further study the influence mechanism of alliance management capabilities on the enterprise disruptive technological innovation. #br#This paper conducts a questionnaire to obtain research data mainly targeting high-tech companies implementing disruptive technological innovation, involving electronic information industry, biopharmaceutical industry, new materials and high-tech service industry, etc. The research objects are mainly middle and senior managers and some R&D personnel of emerging high-tech enterprises in China. A final sample of 611 companies in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions of China, as well as 65 enterprises in Chengdu and Chongqing, were selected to obtain data for the study. It took three months to distribute questionnaires to 676 enterprises, and 451 valid questionnaires were collected with an effective rate of 66.7%. #br#This paper verifies the hypothesis by constructing the multiple linear regression model and hierarchical regression analysis. The findings are as follows. (1) Alliance management capabilities generally have a positive impact on enterprise disruptive technological innovation. (2) Knowledge flow plays a partial intermediary role between alliance management capabilities and enterprise disruptive technological innovation. (3) Knowledge reconstruction ability significantly and positively moderates the relationship between alliance management capabilities and knowledge flow. And also, the positive relationship between alliance management capabilities and enterprise disruptive technological innovation is actively moderated by knowledge reconstruction ability. #br#This paper integrates innovation alliances theory, knowledge management theory, and research results in the field of disruptive innovation. Its main contributions lie in three aspects. Firstly this paper explores the impact of alliance management capabilities on enterprises disruptive technological innovation from a holistic perspective of alliance management, expanding the study of antecedent variables of disruptive technological innovation. Secondly it explores the role of alliance management on knowledge flow and knowledge reconstruction from the dynamic perspective of alliance management, enriching the relevant research on knowledge management. Thirdly this study enriches the relevant research on innovation and entrepreneurship management in the era of digital economy, and has a positive reference for enterprises to implement disruptive technological innovation. In addition, the research results of the article also have instructive significance for the disruptive innovation activities of government organization in management practice. Government agencies should take full advantage of the digital and intelligent era, actively introduce favorable innovation policies, guide technological cooperation and interaction between enterprises and research institutions, and promote the cross-border flow of innovative knowledge to enable enterprises to achieve disruptive technological leapfrog development in the ever-changing digital economy era.#br#
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Received: 06 December 2020
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