连锁董事任职经验与企业创新组织冗余的调节作用

本文从资源依赖理论和组织间模仿出发,考察连锁董事任职经验对企业创新的影响,并以组织冗余作为替代变量,探讨焦点公司内部资源存量对上述关系的调节作用。研究表明,连锁董事任职经验显著促进企业创新;以组织冗余测度的焦点公司内部资源存量越多,连锁董事任职经验对企业创新的促进作用越强。进一步研究还发现,地区创新能力与连锁董事任职经验之间呈显著的替代关系,即企业所在地区的创新能力越低,连锁董事任职经验对企业创新的促进作用越强,该结果支持了连锁董事任职经验能够降低焦点公司面临的知识约束,进而提高焦点公司创新能力的作用逻辑。本文拓展了企业创新影响因素及连锁董事任职经验经济后果领域的相关文献,将连锁董事任职经验的影响从企业微观层面延伸到地区宏观层面,为完善上市公司创新人才结构及选聘机制提供了新的经验证据,具有重要的实践意义。

Interlock Directors' Experience and Enterprise InnovationModerating Role of Organizational Slack

From the perspective of resource dependence theory and inter-organizational imitation, this study explores the influence of the interlock directors" experience on enterprise innovation and examines the moderating effect of organizational slack as the internal resource stock on the relationship between the interlock directors" experience and enterprise innovation. The results show that interlock directors" experience can significantly promote enterprise innovation; organizational slack positively moderates the promotion effect of interlock directors" experience on enterprise innovation. Further research finds that there is a significant substitution relationship between regional innovation ability and interlock directors" experience under the same other conditions, which indicates that the lower the innovation ability of the region where the enterprise is located, the stronger the promotion effect of the interlock director"s experience on enterprise innovation. For the listed companies located in the areas with low innovation ability, choosing directors with strong interlock directors" experience can make up for the fact that they are far away from the industrial cluster area information disadvantage. This paper enriches the relevant literature on the influencing factors of enterprise innovation and the economic consequences of interlock directors" experience, and extends the influence of interlock directors" experience from the enterprise micro level to the regional macro level. It provides new empirical evidence for improving the structure and selection mechanism of innovative talents in listed companies, thus it possesses significant practical importance as well.