Effects of social media usage on exploratory innovation, exploitative innovation and organizational agility: the moderating role of learning goal orientation
发布时间：2023-03-21
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- DOI码：
- 10.1108/INTR-07-2021-0503
- 发表刊物：
- Internet Research
- 项目来源：
- 72002063
- 关键字：
- Social media usage, Exploitative innovation, Exploratory innovation, Organizational agility, Learning goal orientation, Adaptive structuration theory
- 摘要：
- Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the underlying mechanisms of exploitative innovation and exploratory innovation between social media usage and organizational agility, and elucidate the moderating role of learning goal orientation (LGO) in the above relationships, based on adaptive structuration theory (AST). Design/methodology/approach – Based on a multiple-respondent matched survey of 334 Chinese e-commerce firms, authors employed structural equation modeling to examine the correlations among social media usage, exploitative innovation, exploratory innovation and organizational agility. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to examine the moderating role of LGO. Findings – This study’s empirical findings demonstrate that exploitative innovation and exploratory innovation mediate the relationship between social media usage and organizational agility in different ways. Further, LGO positively moderates the relationship between social media usage for customer acquisition and exploratory innovation, as well as the relationship between social media usage for customer relationship and exploitative innovation. Practical implications – Firms are advised to leverage different types of social media usage to facilitate exploitative innovation and exploratory innovation and promote organizational agility. In addition, LGO within a firm should be established to enhance the effects of social media usage on exploitative innovation and exploratory innovation. Originality/value – This study adds to the literature on social media usage by proposing and examining exploitative innovation and exploratory innovation as explanatory mechanisms to facilitate organizational agility. This study further identifies LGO as a boundary condition of social media usage’s effect on exploitative innovation and exploratory innovation. By contextualizing social media as advanced information technology, this study contributes to the contextualization of AST in the social media context.
- 备注：
- This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC: 72002062).
- 合写作者：
- Zhang, Kai, Liu, Hefu, Li, Yang*, & Wu, Xia
- 学科门类：
- 管理学
- 文献类型：
- J
- ISSN号：
- 1066-2243
- 是否译文：
- 否
- 发表时间：
- 2023-01-01