关键词: 供应商创新绩效, 技术知识基础多元度, 吸收能力, 企业创新绩效

Abstract: In the era of open innovation, manufacturers are increasingly relying on suppliers and other external partners in their innovation process. Based on the absorptive capacity theory and the organizational inertia theory, this paper examines the influence of diversity of technological knowledge base on the utilization of supplier innovation. The diversity of technological knowledge base can promote the innovation utilization of suppliers by improving the absorptive capacity and restrain the innovation utilization of suppliers by reducing the absorptive intention. However, there are significant differences in the mechanism and effect of supplier innovation between the diversity of technology-related and technology-independent knowledge base. The results obtained from the data of listed manufacturing companies in China show that the supplier innovation performance is positively correlated with enterprise innovation performance. The correlation between the innovation performance of suppliers and that of the enterprises is weakened by the irrelevant diversity of technological knowledge base. The correlation diversity of technological knowledge base enhances the positive correlation between the innovation performance of suppliers and that of enterprises.

Key words: supplier innovation performance, diversity of technological knowledge base, absorptive capacity, innovation performance of manufacturer