战略前瞻性与扩展适应：跨界搜索与吸收能力的作用

摘要/Abstract

摘要： 扩展适应是企业创新的重要源泉，但现有文献对此很少关注。本文通过引入吸收能力和跨界搜索两个变量，构建有调节的中介模型，探究战略前瞻性对扩展适应的影响机理，分析跨界搜索的中介作用和吸收能力的调节作用。实证结果表明：战略前瞻性对扩展适应有显著的正向影响；跨界搜索在战略前瞻性与扩展适应之间存在完全中介作用；潜在吸收能力和现实吸收能力均强化了跨界搜索和扩展适应之间的关系，潜在吸收能力和现实吸收能力均正向调节跨界搜索的中介作用。研究结论是对扩展适应触发机制的拓展，有助于从战略层面解读扩展适应的形成路径，对企业推进扩展适应实践有重要意义。

关键词: 战略前瞻性, 跨界搜索, 扩展适应, 吸收能力

Abstract: Exaptation is an important source of enterprise innovation, but the existing literature pays little attention to it. In this paper, a moderated mediating model is formed by introducing two variables- absorptive capacity and boundary-spanning search - to explore the influence of strategic foresight on exaptation, focusing on the mediating role of boundary-spanning search and the moderating role of absorptive capacity. The results show that: strategic foresight has a significant positive impact on exaptation, and boundary-spanning search mediates the relationship between strategic foresight and exaptation; potential absorptive capacity and realized absorptive capacity strengthen the relationship between boundary-spanning search and exaptation, and potential absorptive capacity and realized absorptive capacity regulates the mediating role of boundary-spanning search. The research conclusion is an extension of the trigger mechanism for adaptation, which helps to reveal the formation path of adaptation from a strategic perspective and is of great significance for enterprises to promote the practice of adaptation.

Key words: strategic foresight, boundary-spanning search, exaptation, absorption capacity

唐朝永, 孙瑞莉, 师永志, 陈万明. 战略前瞻性与扩展适应：跨界搜索与吸收能力的作用[J]. 管理评论, 2025, 37(6): 90-103.

Tang Chaoyong, Sun Ruili, Shi Yongzhi, Chen Wanming. Strategic Foresight and Exaptation: The Role of Boundary-spanning Search and Absorption Capacity[J]. Management Review, 2025, 37(6): 90-103.

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