基于制度观点和创新文献,论文理论探讨并实证检验了企业的正式制度资本与非正式制度资本对企业创新倾向的非线性作用机理及效果差异,并进一步探究了企业的创新占用能力对上述路径的边界作用。303家企业的配套调研数据显示:首先,企业正式制度资本与其创新倾向之间呈现出递增的正向关系,而企业非正式制度资本与其创新倾向之间呈现出递减的正向关系。其次,企业创新占用能力显著地增强了正式制度资本与创新倾向之间的正向关系,却显著地削弱了非正式制度资本与创新倾向之间的正向关系。该研究为指导我国企业在提升创新倾向时有效地配置和利用不同的制度资本提供了有力的理论支撑。

Based on the institution-based view and innovation literatures, this paper theoretically discusses and empirically examines the non-linear effects of firms’ formal institutional capital and informal institutional capital on firms’ innovativeness, their potential heterogeneities, and their contingencies upon appropriability regime as well. The empirical findings of the survey data from 303 paired sample firms in China indicate that: First, firms’ formal institutional capital have an increasingly positive effect on their innovativeness, whereas firms’ informal institutional capital exert a decreasingly positive effect. Second, appropriability regime strengthens the positive effect of formal institutional capital on innovativeness, while weakens the positive effect of informal institutional capital on innovativeness. This paper provides insightful theoretical implications for firms’ innovativeness and their capital utilization.