Study on Influence of Regional Environmental Factors over S&T Enterprise Scale: Organizational Learning and Intellectual Capital as Mediators

Abstract

Abstract:

In order to investigate the inherent mechanism of how regional environmental factors influence innovation enterprise scale, this study builds a relational model of regional environmental factors, three process elements of organizational learning, intellectual capital and innovation enterprise scale on the basis of resource-based view, knowledge-based view and knowledge management thoughts. Then it makes an empirical test of the model above by conducting the questionnaire survey to 436 innovation enterprise employees. The results show that, regional environmental factors have both direct and indirect effect on the innovative enterprise scale. There are three indirect effect paths. For the first path, the mediators are information acquisition and intellectual capital. For the second path, the mediators are information distribution and intellectual capital. For the last path, the mediators are information acquisition, information distribution and intellectual capital. Information interpretation doesn't have any role in the indirect effect paths.

Key words: regional environmental factors, organizational learning, intellectual capital, S&T enterprise scale

Zou Guoping, Guo Tao, Ren Xuejiao. Study on Influence of Regional Environmental Factors over S&T Enterprise Scale: Organizational Learning and Intellectual Capital as Mediators[J]. , 2017, 29(5): 52-63.

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