Impact of Top Management Team Behavior Integration on Ambidextrous Innovation:Mediating Role of Organizational Ability and Moderating Effect of Critical Reflection
Research has shown that whether a company can achieve sustainable development mainly depends on whether it has core competitiveness,and technological innovation is seen as the most important source of organi-zational core competitiveness and sustained competitive advantage.However,in order to achieve good technologi-cal innovation performance,enterprises often need to implement dual innovation simultaneously.Behavioral integration,as one of the important characteristics'variables of top management team(abbreviated as TMT)has received widespread attention from the academic community.Existing research has only theoretically analyzed the positive relationship between TMT behavior integration and exploratory and applied innovation,but has not empirically tested the above relationship.The TMT team is a key group that influences technological innovation behavior and performance,and its behavior integration will inevitably play an important role in the dual innova-tion process.However,research by scholars on the impact of TMT behavior integration on dual innovation and the mediating and moderating variables that influence this process is very scarce.Considering that some scholars believe that the improvement of dual innovation(level)is based on organizational capability,which is inevitably influenced by TMT behavior integration,organizational capability may play a mediating role between TMT behav-ior integration and dual innovation.In addition,research has shown that critical reflection,as a cognitive approach that has a significant impact on employee technological innovation behavior,can have a significant impact on technological innovation behavior and corporate innovation performance.Based on this inference,critical reflection is likely to have a moderating effect on the relationship between TMT behavior integration and dual innovation.Based on the above analysis,this study will explore the relationship among TMT behavior inte-gration,organizational ability,and dual innovation,as well as the moderating effect of critical reflection on the relationship between TMT behavior integration and dual innovation.This study enriches the research on dual innovation theory,exploring the feasibility of dual innovation from the perspective of TMT behavior integration.The empirical results provide evidence support for the feasibility of dual innovation and theoretical guidance for executives to implement high-level dual innovation activities.Taking 209 high-tech enterprises from Jiangsu,Shanghai,Zhejiang and other regions as empirical samples,the measurement of variables such as TMT behavior integration,dual innovation,organizational ability,and critical reflection are all based on mature measurement scales.Except for the age and size of the enterprise,the research variables are collected using the Likert 7-level scale.We process the data as follows:we use enterprise age and size as control variables.After conducting reliability and validity tests on the obtained data,the relationship between variables is studied through correlation analysis and regression analysis.The results show that:TMT behavior integration has a significant positive effect on ambidextrous innovation,adaptive capacity only plays a full intermediary role between TMT behavior integration and breakthrough innovation,and coordinate ability plays a part of intermediary role between TMT behavior integration and ambidextrous innovation.Critical reflection plays a positive role in regula-ting the TMT behavior integration and ambidextrous innovation.The study provides some managerial insights:(1)Enterprise managers should attach importance to TMT behavior integration.(2)Corporate executive should focus on critical reflection.(3)Enterprise executives should fully attach importance to organizational capacity building and play the intermediary role of organizational capaci-ty.The main limitations of this study are as follows:(1)The sample selection is limited to high-tech enterprises in Jiangsu,Shanghai,and Zhejiang.Further empirical evidence is needed to determine whether the research conclusions are suitable for enterprises in other regions and industries.(2)The study only examines the media-ting role of organizational capacity and the moderating role of critical reflection.Future research can examine the effects of other mediating variables(such as dynamic capacity,absorptive capacity,etc.)and moderating varia-bles(such as environmental dynamism,environmental competitiveness,etc.).(3)The dependent variable of this study(dual innovation)is mainly expanded from two dimensions of dual innovation.Future research can consider exploring the relationship between TMT behavior integration and the overall variable of dual innovation,enriching and developing the theory of dual innovation.
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