先前承诺、资源拼凑对新创企业探索式创新的影响 ——基于政府支持的调节作用研究

The Impact of Pre-commitments and Resource Bricolage on Exploratory Innovation of New Ventures: Based on The Moderating Effect of Government Support

摘要:

先前承诺是一种强调战略联盟而非竞争分析的决策方式，能为新创企业进行战略决策提供新思路。先前承诺虽在资源拼凑与企业探索式创新中起着影响作用，但将先前承诺、资源拼凑与探索式创新纳入同一研究框架并深入探讨其中机制的研究较少。为厘清先前承诺对新创企业探索式创新的影响机制，基于效果推理理论，以先前承诺为视角切入，构建“先前承诺－资源拼凑－探索式创新”的理论框架，采用分层回归方法对426家新创企业样本数据进行实证分析，并进一步探究资源拼凑的中介效应以及政府支持的调节效应。结果表明：先前承诺对探索式创新具有正向影响作用；资源拼凑在先前承诺与探索式创新之间发挥着部分中介作用；政府支持在先前承诺与资源拼凑、探索式创新之间均具有显著的正向调节作用，表明政府支持是缓解新创企业资源约束压力的有效途径。因此，新创企业要借助政府支持的力量，通过获得利益相关者的先前承诺，快速吸收整合探索式创新所需的资源，以降低探索式创新的风险。政府则要重点关注新创企业的发展状况，并及时完善支持新创企业创新活动的法律法规。

Abstract:

Innovation plays a central role in China's overall modernization drive. Especially for the most dynamic new ventures, they need to innovate in order to meet the requirements of the times and enhance their competitiveness. However, it is not easy for new ventures to carry out innovation activities, and they need to have enough innovation resources. This requires new ventures to strengthen cooperation with stakeholders to obtain innovation resources. Pre-commitments is a decision-making approach that stresses strategic alliance rather than competitive analysis, which can provide new ideas for new ventures to make strategic decisions. Although pre-commitments play influential roles in resource bricolage and enterprise exploratory innovation, few studies have integrated pre-commitments, resource bricolage, and exploratory innovation within a single research framework or deeply explored their underlying mechanisms. In order to clarify the influence mechanism of pre-commitments on exploratory innovation of new ventures, this paper constructs a theoretical framework of "pre-commitments-resource bricolage-exploratory innovation" based on the theory of effectual reasoning and under the perspective of pre-commitments. Taking Chinese new ventures as the research object, online questionnaires are distributed to founders, business partners and senior managers of entrepreneurial teams, and regression analysis and mediation effect test are applied to empirically analyze the data collected from a sample of 426 new ventures. The results show that: pre-commitments have a positive effect on exploratory innovation; resource bricolage serves as a partially mediating role between pre-commitments and exploratory innovation; government support has a significant positive moderating effect between pre-commitments, resource bricolage, and exploratory innovation, respectively, which suggests that government support is an effective way to alleviate the pressure of resource constraints on new ventures. Therefore, new ventures should use the power of government support to quickly absorb the resources needed for integrating exploratory innovation through pre-commitments of stakeholders to reduce the risks of exploratory innovation. The government, on the other hand, should closely monitor the development of new ventures and swiftly refine laws and regulations that support their activities.