技术创新责任:维度与测量

技术创新责任是创新驱动战略背景下的企业社会责任新形式，是企业实现可持续发展的必然选择。针对技术创新责任，已有研究尚处于概念讨论阶段，欠缺具有科学性的测量工具。本文基于扎根理论开发技术创新责任的维度，并运用探索性因子分析和验证性因子分析验证所开发的维度，通过组合信度和平均变异量AVE等方式评估量表的信度和效度。研究结果表明，技术创新责任包括“员工维度”、“合作伙伴维度”、“消费者维度”、“政府维度”、“非政府组织维度”和“社区维度”6个维度，量表具有良好的信度和效度。研究结果丰富了技术创新责任的理论研究，为技术创新责任的实证分析奠定了工具基础，同时为企业完善利益相关者网络、提升利益相关者能力提供了重要的实践参考。

Structure and measurement of technological innovation responsibility

With the economic development, corporate social responsibility has become more and more important for firms. Technological innovation responsibility is one of the new forms of corporate social responsibility under the background of innovation-driven strategy, and it is an inevitable choice for firms to achieve sustainable development. However, the current research about technological innovation responsibility is still at the stage of conceptual discussion and there is a lack of scientific tools for measurement. This paper aims to develop a measurement for technological innovation responsibility. This paper firstly identifies the structure dimension of technological innovation responsibility based on grounded theory. After open coding, selective coding, and theoretical coding, this paper identified six dimensions of technological innovation responsibility. Then, this paper collected research data through survey to run exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis to verify the structural dimensions of technological innovation responsibility. Finally, this paper evaluates the scale’s reliability and validity by combining reliability and average variance extracted (AVE). The results show that technological innovation responsibility has six dimensions, which are employee dimension, partner dimension, consumer dimension, government dimension, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) dimension and community dimension. The employee dimension is mainly embodied in promoting the innovation development of employees. The partner dimension is mainly embodied in promoting the innovation development of partner. The consumer dimension is mainly embodied in meeting the needs of consumers for a better life. The government dimension is mainly embodied in promoting government’s policy implementation and enhancing the government’s international influence. The NGOs dimension is mainly embodied in promoting the innovation development of NGOs. The community dimension is mainly embodied in promoting the sustainable development of resource and the environment. Furthermore, the results of exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis confirmed that these six dimensions can be accepted. Finally, the results of combining reliability and AVE showed that the scale has good reliability and validity. Besides, in order to avoid the potential impact of the research sample on the research results, this paper also run the robustness tests. To be specific, this study mixed the samples of the two surveys. Then, from the mixed samples, this paper re-extracted two sets of samples for robustness tests. The results show that the scale developed in this paper has strong robustness. The research results enrich the theoretical research of technological innovation responsibility by constructing its structural dimensions, which could make the concept of technological innovation responsibility deeper. By development the measurement scale, this paper could also lay a tool foundation for the empirical analysis of technological innovation responsibility. At the same time , this paper also of great practical significance for practice. On one hand, the identified structural dimensions can enable firms to understand technological innovation responsibility better, which can be used to guide firms to strengthen technological innovation responsibility in different dimensions. On the other hand, firms can also use the measurement scale to evaluate their technological innovation responsibility, which can help firms find out the weak aspects of their technological innovation responsibility and thus adjust their technological innovation responsibility practices accordingly.