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http://dx.doi.org/10.13106/jafeb.2021.vol8.no3.1153

The Effects of Absorptive Capability and Innovative Culture on Innovation Performance: Evidence from Chinese High-Tech Firms  

LIU, Si-Meng (Department of Hotel Management, Changsha Normal University)
HU, Rui (Department of Administrative Management, Huazhong Agricultural University)
KANG, Tae-Won (Department of Logistics, Kunsan National University)
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The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business / v.8, no.3, 2021 , pp. 1153-1162 More about this Journal
Abstract
The innovation of enterprises allowed firms to promote technological innovation as an important choice to improve sustainable competitiveness. This study aims to investigate the relationship between absorptive capacity and innovation performance of Chinese high-tech enterprises and focuses on the mediating role of innovation culture in high-tech enterprises. Data came from surveying high-tech enterprises in China, and the reliability analysis, factor analysis, and correlation analysis, path analysis (SEM) were analyzed using SPSS23, AMOS. The results show that intellectual capital composed of human capital, structural capital, and relational has a significant impact on acquisition performance; intellectual capital is composed of human capital; structural capital has a significant influence on innovation performance; and absorptive capital has a significant impact on innovation performance. In addition, innovative culture plays a partial mediating role between absorptive capacity and innovation performance. The findings of this study suggest that, to ensure the better absorption and operation of knowledge, high-tech enterprises can accumulate more knowledge, promote the transformation of knowledge into technology, and strengthen the capability of knowledge absorptive capacity, and at the same time, create an innovation culture atmosphere and encourage employees to develop new products to achieve enterprise goals in order to promote the improvement of innovation performance.
Keywords
Absorptive Capacity; Innovation Performance; Innovative Culture; High-tech Firms;
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