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| Organizational Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management Capability and Open Innovation Performance |
| Yu Dengke1,Zhang Wanjun2 |
| (1.School of Management, Nanchang University;2.Ji Luan Academy, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031, China) |
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Abstract In the context of economic globalization, more and more enterprises promote open innovation to obtain sustainable competitive advantage. Compared with closed innovation, open innovation relies more on an organization's knowledge management ability, including the knowledge governance ability involving cross-border cooperation, multi-organization collaboration, and the balance between knowledge protection and knowledge sharing. According to the intellectual management theory, knowledge resources and organizational character, as intangible resources with strategic significance, are the engine driving enterprise innovation and development. This study therefore considers that knowledge resources and organizational character are the driving factors of open innovation behavior and performance, and the driving mechanism relies on the mediating role of knowledge management ability.#br#In this study, a structural equation model is constructed and fitted to verify two scientific questions. Do knowledge resources and organizational character significantly drive open innovation performance? Does knowledge management ability play a significant mediating role in the above mentioned path? It is hoped to develop a new perspective of resource-based view for the formation and promotion mechanism of open innovation performance, and guide enterprises to carry out open innovation practices and improve organizational performance in the background of global sharing economy.#br#This study uses AMOS tool to test the structural equation model, and measures the relationships between organizational character, knowledge resources, network embeddedness, knowledge management ability and open innovation performance. It employs Bootstrap to examine the mediating effect of knowledge management capability as well as its mediating effect that moderates by network embeddedness.#br#The results show that organizational intellectual capital, including knowledge resources and organizational character, have a significant positive impact on open innovation performance, and knowledge management ability plays a significant mediating effect. The mediating effect is still significant when network embeddedness moderates the relationship between organizational character and knowledge management ability. It finds that the intellectual capital of organizations can improve the performance of open innovation by strengthening knowledge management abilities.#br# This study answers the questions that how the accumulation of knowledge resources drives open innovation, and how the formation and improvement of knowledge management ability plays an intermediary role. In addition, in the context of open innovation, this study also considers organizational character as a strategic resource affecting the formation of performance, and juxtaposes its importance with knowledge resources, thus developing a new concept of organizational intellectual capital. It is a new theoretical framework to take intellectual capital as a whole to explore its role in knowledge management ability and open innovation performance. #br#Three management implications are proposed. First, with global sharing economy becoming general, it is crucial to implement innovation-driven development strategy in enterprises, and the introduction of open innovation is crucial to their sustainable developments. However, open innovation will bring a lot of challenges to enterprise ability. The coping strategy to those questions such as how to build open innovation strategy framework and system, how to obtain the resources and capabilities for open innovation, and how to implement environment conducive to open innovation performance need to be actively explored and gradually improved in practice. This study indicates that the formation and improvement of open innovation performance has its own path and rules, and enterprises are suggested to learn, follow and apply them flexibly. Second, organizations should vigorously develop its strategic intellectual capital, including knowledge resources and organizational character. Knowledge management can increase the stock of knowledge resources and activate the flow of knowledge resources, which is beneficial for knowledge resources to play a role in the process of open innovation. Through character management, enterprises can cultivate and advocate their characteristics, which can enhance the cohesion for the implementation of open innovation, and make the operation of open innovation system more stable and lasting. Finally, enterprises should attach great importance to knowledge management, strengthen their organization, process and capacity through knowledge management, and make it into an effective tool of open innovation. In addition, the operation of social network is also very important for the realization of enterprise open innovation performance. Enterprises should pay efforts in embedding structure and relationship in social network, and turn it into a carrier for organizations to gather and share knowledge and resources, so as to facilitate the realization of open innovation performance.#br#
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Received: 28 September 2021
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