High Quality Relationship, Learning from Failure and Innovation Performance of Enterprises

Abstract

Abstract:

Some scholars pay attention to the importance of social capital and organizational learning on enterprise innovation, butthey often ignore important value of learning from failure in the background of open innovation. Based on survey data from aerospace manufacturing enterprises in Shanghai, Nanjing and so on, the model is examined through the method of statistical test. Hierarchical regression results show that, the high quality relationship can improve psychological safety, and promote learning from failure, psychological safety is effective in promoting the learning from failure. Shared goals and mutual respect enhance innovation performance, but shared knowledge has no significant effect on innovation performance. The mediating effect shows that there are dual influence paths of high quality relationship on enterprise innovation performance: one is a direct effect on innovation performance; the other is that the high quality relationship has an indirect effect on innovation performance by psychological safety and learning from failure. This conclusion has some implications for path choice of innovation performance.

Key words: high quality relationship, learning from failure, innovation performance

Zha Chengwei, Chen Wanming, Tang Chaoyong. High Quality Relationship, Learning from Failure and Innovation Performance of Enterprises[J]. , 2016, 28(2): 175-184.

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