The Influence of Organizational Antecedents of Corporate Entrepreneurship on Product Innovation Performance——Exploring the Moderating Role of Environment Uncertainty

Abstract

Abstract:

There have been a lot of researches on the relationship between organizational antecedents of corporate entrepreneurship and product innovation performance abroad. However, the studies of the influence in China are limited and most of them are made from a strategic perspective. Based on the theory of corporate entrepreneurship, we investigate the effect on product innovation performance of five commonly-acknowledged organizational antecedents of corporate entrepreneurship named as management support, work discretion/autonomy, rewards/reinforcements, time availability and organizational boundaries, and the moderating role of environment uncertainty on the relationship between the above two through 225 high-tech firms in Anhui and Zhejiang province. Results indicate that (1) Corporate entrepreneurship is important in promoting and supporting product innovation performance; (2) Only three of the five antecedents to corporate entrepreneurship have main effects on product innovation performance with moderate significance; (3) Two of the five antecedents significantly interact with environment uncertainty in different directions and thereby, influence product innovation performance. The managerial implications of these results are discussed.

Key words: internal organizational antecedents, corporate entrepreneurship, new product innovation, environment uncertainty

Yu Renzhi, He Jiefang, Liu Zhiying. The Influence of Organizational Antecedents of Corporate Entrepreneurship on Product Innovation Performance——Exploring the Moderating Role of Environment Uncertainty[J]. , 2015, 27(9): 85-94.

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