Matching buyer-supplier interaction with governance mechanisms for business performance: the moderated mediation model with innovation ambidexterity

作者：Wang, Yu; Jia, Tao; Chen, Jinliang^*; Sun, Hongyi

来源：INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT, 2022, 90(3-4): 182-215.

DOI：10.1504/IJTM.2022.125973

• buyer-supplier interaction
• governance mechanism
• contract
• trust
• innovation ambidexterity
• exploitative innovation
• exploratory innovation
• knowledge recombination
• organisational information processing theory
• information processing requirement
• information processing capacity
• fit as moderation
• moderated mediation

This paper aims to investigate the relationships among buyer-supplier interaction (BSI), innovation ambidexterity, and business performance. It postulates that BSI contributes to innovation ambidexterity that serves to benefit business performance. Building on organisational information processing theory, this study clarifies boundary conditions in terms of governance mechanisms. The SPSS version of PROCESS was employed to test hypotheses using ordinary least squares regression based on survey data collected from 184 Hong Kong manufacturing firms. The results show that innovation ambidexterity mediates the relationship between BSI and business performance. Furthermore, the indirect relationship is strengthened by the interplay of contracts and trust in its first stage.

• 单位
  西安交通大学; 中央财经大学