Entrepreneurship and sustainable innovation capabilities in platform enterprises: the mediating role of knowledge integration
ISSN: 1750-614X
Article publication date: 4 August 2021
Issue publication date: 13 May 2022
Abstract
Purpose
The concept of entrepreneurship in platform enterprises has evolved and developed. The purpose of this paper is to explore how entrepreneurship in platform enterprises can be transformed into the sustainable innovation capability of enterprises based on knowledge integration.
Design/methodology/approach
This study adopts a questionnaire survey. The research samples are mainly from well-known domestic platform enterprises, EMBA students and professional online websites, 389 valid questionnaires were collected.
Findings
The results show that entrepreneurship has a positive impact on the sustainable innovation capability of platform enterprises, knowledge integration plays a partial mediating role between entrepreneurship and sustainable innovation capability of platform enterprises. Shared leadership plays a moderating role between entrepreneurship and knowledge integration and knowledge-sharing atmosphere plays a moderating role between knowledge integration and sustainable innovation capability of platform enterprises.
Originality/value
This paper emphasizes the key role of entrepreneurship in platform enterprises on the sustainable innovation capability and discusses the realization path of the sustainable innovation capability of platform enterprises from the perspective of knowledge integration, which is of great significance for developing the research system of entrepreneurship and promoting the construction of sustainable innovation capability of platform enterprises.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge funding from the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2020QN74), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71672029), the Cooperative Education Program of Ministry of Education (201802258082) and the Social Science Project of Shenyang (SYSK2019‐01‐0) and the “Chinese traditional culture and management” project of Northeast University IMBA all-English course construction funding project.
Citation
Sun, X., Zhao, D., Zhang, D. and Tian, F. (2022), "Entrepreneurship and sustainable innovation capabilities in platform enterprises: the mediating role of knowledge integration", Chinese Management Studies, Vol. 16 No. 3, pp. 627-652. https://doi.org/10.1108/CMS-04-2021-0175
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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