组织创新对企业模仿与创新绩效的影响

识别组织创新过程对企业绩效的影响对理解企业的创新过程非常重要。本文采用中国制造业调查数据,利用潜在分类模型方法定量分析企业的组织创新类型与特点,并结合多元处理效应模型探讨组织创新对企业产品模仿与创新绩效的影响。研究发现样本企业的组织创新程度从低到高可划分为五个等级。中高程度的组织创新水平(第Ⅲ和第Ⅳ种)对产品模仿绩效有显著作用,表明侧重知识创新和研发投入的组织创新有利于提高企业产品模仿绩效;只有最高程度的组织创新,即第Ⅴ种类型组织创新,显著提高产品创新强度,表明全面提升组织创新程度对产品模仿到产品创新的转变具有重要作用。所以创新政策不应仅仅停留在技术创新层面,而应强调企业的全面创新。

The impact of organizational innovation on the performance of product imitation and innovation

In view of the importance of organizational innovation in improving firm performance, this paper explores the impact of organizational innovation on product imitation and product innovation for Chinese manufacturing firms using the multinomial treatment effect model (MTE). Latent transition analysis (LCA) is firstly adopted to investigate the classification of organizational innovation and its characteristics. The results demonstrate a 5-class mode of organizational innovation from low level to high level for sample firms. Middle to high level of organizational innovation (Type Ⅲ and Ⅳ) has significant impact on the intensity of product imitation, implying that knowledge innovation and R&D investment play an important role in facilitating product imitation. Only the highest level of organizational innovation (Type Ⅴ) shows a significant effect on the intensity of product innovation, demonstrating that the transition from imitation to product innovation requires a comprehensive improvement in organizational innovation. Hence, policies designed to stimulate indigenous innovation should address not only technological innovation per se, but also the comprehensive innovation.