The effect of STI/DUI learning on innovation performance:The moderative role of environmental dynamicity

Abstract

Abstract: Exsisting studies mainly devote to the general analysis on how organizational learning determines innovation performance; however a thorough and systematic research involving the effects of different learning behaviors on the inovation performance of enterprises is quite rare. The impact of Science, Technology, Innovation(STI)/Doing, Using, Interacting(DUI)-based learning on technological innovation performance as well as the moderative effect of environmental dynamicity is studied, and by taking the survey of 230 manufacturing enterprises in China as sample, a empirically study is carried out. Results indicate that (1) both STI-based learning and DUI-based learning are able to facilitate the technological innovation performance of enterprises; (2) STI learning and DUI learning are closely related with each other and are able to complementarily facilitate the technological innovation of enterprises; (3) environmental dynamicity moderates the relationship between STI learning and DUI learning and innovation performance. Hopefully, the findings are able to provide the guidance for enterprises to enhance their innovative capabilities and innovation performance.

Key words: STI-based learning, DUI-based learning, innovation performance, environmental dynamicity

CLC Number:

F273.1

Guo Aifang, Chen Jin. The effect of STI/DUI learning on innovation performance:The moderative role of environmental dynamicity[J]. Science Research Management, 2013, (6): 1-8.

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