Abstract
The contemporary sustainable development imperative sees enterprises seeking competitive advantages in innovation networks, the distinguishing features of which are continuous interaction and knowledge flow between participants. As an informal governance mechanism, cooperative culture influences the stability and durability of the members’ interactions. Knowledge flow is a core network activity that is highly dependent on the cultural environment. The purpose of this paper is to explore whether innovation governance performance is affected by cooperative culture and knowledge flow. How do they play an influential role? We use structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze the linear relationships among the three variables: cooperative culture, knowledge flow, and governance performance. The results suggest that knowledge flow has a mediating effect on the relationship between cooperative culture and governance performance. We also use fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to explore how cooperative culture and knowledge flow combined can influence governance performance. The results indicate that different combinations of cooperative culture and knowledge flow lead to different levels of governance performance, with two paths leading to high governance performance, which are fit creation-oriented and compatible sharing-oriented paths. These findings have significant implications for improving innovation governance performance and their sustainable development.
Highlights
As sustainable development becomes a contemporary imperative, innovation requirements are becoming progressively more demanding, and the iteration speed is accelerating
This study examines the effect of different configurations of cooperative culture and knowledge flow on improving the performance of innovation network governance, and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) suits this well
Based on the sample data of 227 enterprises in innovation networks, and combined structural equation modeling (SEM) and fsQCA methods, this study explored the relationships among cooperative culture, knowledge flow, and innovation network governance performance
Summary
As sustainable development becomes a contemporary imperative, innovation requirements are becoming progressively more demanding, and the iteration speed is accelerating. Imai and Baba first proposed the concept of enterprise innovation networks in 1989. They believe that an enterprise innovation network is a basic institutional arrangement designed to deal with systemic innovation. Members can innovate through strategic, knowledge, and organizational collaboration to obtain sustainable competitive advantages [1]. The innovation cooperation relationships among enterprises are the main connection of the network structure [2]. A firm’s main purpose in establishing or joining an innovation network is to establish a cooperative relationship to acquire important resources and knowledge that it is currently lacking [3]
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