Abstract:It has become one of the hottest spots in the field of innovation research and practice that the users begin to participate in the innovation process with enterprises together. The mode of the user embeddedness has switched into being innovation actors through the whole innovation process instead of only providing innovation sources. At present, some of researches focus on the performance of enterprise innovation from the perspective of user embeddedness, but the research on enterprise innovation performance according to the different modes of user embeddedness is relatively scarce, especially the black box of how different embedded modes affects enterprise innovation performance has been still closed. In this paper, the digital content industry is taken as an example to explore how user affect enterprise innovation performance in the mode of front and end embedded. Meanwhile, this paper analyzes the mediating effect of absorptive capacity on the performance of enterprise innovation in different user embedded modes.