本文基于48家制造企业的402份有效样本数据，采用跨层次分析中的阶层线性模型（HLM），探讨了商业模式创新、员工吸收能力和创新合法性的关系。研究结果表明：（1）员工吸收能力中的辨识与共享构面、个人投入构面对商业模式创意与商业模式应用的影响皆达到显著性水平，理解与整合构面对商业模式应用的影响达到显著性水平；（2）实用合法性对商业模式创意的影响达到显著性水平，认知合法性对商业模式应用的影响达到显著性水平；（3）实用合法性与认知合法性在个人投入与商业模式创意的关系中的调节作用分别达到显著性水平。

This paper investigates the relationships among business model innovation, employee absorptive capacity and innovation legitimacy with the method of hierarchical linear model(HLM) in cross-hierarchy analysis, based on the date of 402 valid samples from 48 manufacturing enterprises. The result shows: (1) The identification and sharing dimension, personal investment dimension of employee absorptive capacity have significant positive effects on business model creativity and application. Understanding and integration dimension has significant positive effect on business model application. (2) Practical legitimacy has significant negative effect on business model creativity, while cognitive legitimacy has significant positive effect on the business model application. (3) Practical legitimacy, cognitive legitimacy respectively plays the role of moderator between the personal investment and business model creativity significantly.