Science Research Management ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (1): 72-80.

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The meta-analysis on the relationship between intellectual capital and enterprise's innovation

Liu Chengjun1,2, Jiang Tianying3, Hua Minghao1   

  1. 1. College of Economy and Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, Zhejiang, China;
    2. Research Center for Technological Innovation and Enterprise Internationalization, Zhejiang Provincial Key Research Base of Philosophy and Social Science, Hangzhou 310023, Zhejiang, China;
    3. Business School, Zhejiang Wanli University, Ningbo 315100, Zhejiang, China
  • Received:2013-06-17 Revised:2014-03-20 Online:2015-01-25 Published:2015-01-23

Abstract: The relationship between intellectual capital and enterprise's innovation has become a hot issue on knowledge management research. Based on the literature review,this paper put forward a hypothetical model of the relationship between intellectual capital and enterprise's innovation, and got 48 independent empirical documents as well as outlier and bias test from major domestic and foreign literature database. By Meta-analysis, the paper reached the following conclusions: firstly, it shows that there is a significant positive relationship between intellectual capital and enterprise's innovation; secondly, the influence on enterprise's innovation may change with the alteration of time and cultural background; finally, the intellectual capital has more obvious effect on enterprise's innovation for the existence of multi-dimensional structure of independent variable and mediating variables.

Key words: intellectual capital, enterprise's innovation, meta-analysis, potential moderators

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