组织搜索视角下的企业研发行为变革及其绩效影响研究

Achieving innovation-driven development in an accelerated pace raises new requirements on Chinese firms’ R&D activities. Drawing on organizational search theory, the study aims to explore how to promote changes in Chinese firms’ R&D behavior in two aspects. First, the project will further identify characteristics of Chinese firms’ search activities in space selection and preference. Then, we will discuss how to drive Chinese firms to conduct search endeavors in technological space. Based on these works, we would be able to put forward some approaches to change the inclinations that Chinese firms devote insufficient input in their R&D activities. Second, the project will explore the approaches and mechanisms which may help firms overcome local search. Basis on the work, the project could put forward some approaches which promote Chinese firms’ exploratory R&D activities. The project will further analyze how the changes of R&D behaviors affects Chinese firms’ performance and subsequently, identify possible paths to achieve these changes. Further cases studies and consulting would be conducted to enrich and extend our findings from theoretical and empirical studies..Theoretically, the study aims to look deeper into the formation and evolution process of firms’ characteristics in their R&D activities with insights of organizational search perspective. Practically, the study tends to put forward some valuable suggestions on how to achieve changes in Chinese firms’ R&D activities to support the strategic adjustment of China towards innovation-driven development pattern. Thus, the study is of significant theoretical and practical implications.

加快实现经济发展方式向创新驱动的转变对我国企业的研发活动提出了新的要求。本研究将重点探讨如何实现我国企业在研发投入强度和方向选择偏好方面的变革。项目将首先从识别我国企业组织搜索行为的空间选择特征入手，分析如何驱动企业面向技术空间开展较高强度的搜索活动，为解决我国企业研发投入不足的问题提供新的思路；其次，项目将从如何驱动企业开展更大跨度的搜索活动出发，分析促进企业更多开展探索性研发活动的机制、策略和手段。本项目还将讨论研发行为变革对企业绩效的影响，分析研发行为变革的不同路径选择及其适用条件。最后将通过案例研究和企业指导检验和丰富理论与实证分析的结果。.理论上，本研究有望从组织搜索理论的视角进一步揭示企业研发行为特征的形成过程与演变机制；实践上，本研究将为我国企业面向创新驱动发展战略调整自身的研发行为提供具体的指导。因此，本项研究有重要的理论价值和现实意义。

本研究项目提出基于组织搜索理论视角的中国企业研发行为特征的形成过程与演变机制。本项目首先对企业组织搜索与研发行为的相关理论概念和测度方法进行了归纳、探讨以及适当的拓展。其次，通过对企业组织搜索行为的空间选择偏好以及组织搜索跨度的拓展机制的识别，进一步分析了驱动企业面向技术空间开展搜索活动的影响机制，以及促进企业更多开展探索性研发活动的机制、策略和手段，并讨论了研发行为变革对企业绩效的影响及其调节作用。这些研究有助于我们更好的理解和阐释新兴经济体下的企业研发创新行为，为推动我国企业面向创新驱动发展提供策略与参考价值。此外，项目团队通过对制造业企业的实地调研，对制造业企业的总体研发创新情况有了全面的认识，进一步的验证了现有理论和实证研究。最后，项目团队持续进行了二手数据的搜集工作，并建立了新的数据库以支撑现有和未来研究工作的开展。项目团队在此期间基本上完成了预设研究目标，在国际国内期刊及会议上共发表论文16篇。