Exploring the Relationship Between Value Modularity, Knowledge Transfer, and Firm Innovation Performance: Evidence From China.

Jianhua Wang,Luying Li,Samma Faiz Rasool,Yan Zhao,Xiao Han

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.772231

Abstract

This study aimed to explore the influence the value modularity and a firm’s innovation performance, directly and indirectly, using knowledge management as mediating variable. Moreover, in this study, we used the resource integration ability as a moderator between the relationship value modularity and firm innovation performance. We collected data from the Chinese state-owned and state-controlled high-tech firms from 2011 to 2018. In this study, we used the gray comprehensive evaluation method to test the degree of value modularity, and hierarchical regression analysis is used to analyze the relationship among variables. The outcomes of this study indicate that value modularity and firm innovation performance has inverted U-shaped and significant association. Similarly, results also confirm that knowledge acquisition and knowledge internalization mediate the relationship between value modularity and firm innovation performance. The finding of this research also confirms that resource integration ability negatively affects the relationship between value modularity and firm innovation performance. This paper enriches the research of the value modularity and gives certain inspiration to knowledge management. At the end of this study, we also suggest some significant practical implications.

Highlights

Innovation is the driving force of national science and technology development
Based on prospect theory and information comparison theory, this paper empirically analyzes the relationship among value modularity, knowledge acquisition, knowledge internalization, resource integration ability, and firm innovation performance
This study aims to explore the influence of the relationship between value modularity and a firm’s innovation performance

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Introduction

Innovation is the driving force of national science and technology development. Technological innovations are the backbone of firm development. According to the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics survey data, 20.1% of Chinese firms have carried out innovation support. From 20.1% the manufacturing and information technology service industry is taking 40% share. Corporate innovation with the participation of multiple subjects has become the main mode of technological breakthrough. Previous studies show that value modules are becoming a trend in the high-tech industries (Gaynor and Bradner, 2001; Zhu, 2003; Bendoly et al, 2004). Innovation is gradually becoming a modularity process, product production, product design, and organization design gradually tend to be modularized. Under the trend of 3c industrial integration in the 1990s, the United States, Japan, and European countries used

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