Entrepreneurship and innovation efficiency: the moderating role of absorptive capacity
ISSN: 1750-614X
Article publication date: 25 October 2022
Issue publication date: 24 November 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurship and innovation efficiency (IE), as well as the moderating role of absorptive capacity.
Design/methodology/approach
This study uses a sample of industrial enterprises from Chinese provinces from 2005 to 2016, and it tests the research questions using the method of stochastic frontier analysis.
Findings
The results of this study indicate that entrepreneurship promotes IE, and that absorptive capacity plays a positive moderating role. In addition, the effect of entrepreneurship on IE differs between the central and eastern regions and the western region.
Originality/value
This research provides direct policy implications by demonstrating the role of entrepreneurship and absorptive capacity in IE, thereby guiding corporate management practices and the formulation of government innovation and entrepreneurship policies.
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Acknowledgements
This work was supported in part by the National Social Science Foundation of China under Grant (21AZD008) and in part by Philosophy and Social Science Foundation for Colleges and Universities in Jiangsu Province (2021SJA0109), Teachers Research Foundation Project of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NYY221008).
Citation
Qian, F., Hong, J., Yang, N. and Yuan, X. (2023), "Entrepreneurship and innovation efficiency: the moderating role of absorptive capacity", Chinese Management Studies, Vol. 17 No. 6, pp. 1161-1175. https://doi.org/10.1108/CMS-12-2020-0530
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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