知識網絡對傳統製造企業升級的影響： 基於瓷磚產業的實證研究

Abstract

After the 2008 financial crisis, the economic situation of domestics and abroad has continued to change. Related costs such as labor cost, materials cost, and the environment cost have increased year by year, and the manufacturing industry is facing development difficulties. As a typical traditional manufacturing industry, the ceramic tile industry has suffered pressures of various aspects in recent years, encountering the situation of "overcapacity and overproduction", corporate profits have fallen, and the pattern of "extensive development" is limited. In the context of supply-side structural reforms and the new economic normal, it is more urgent and practical for companies to improve their innovation capabilities and require transformation and upgrading. Facing the rapidly-changing environment, the relationship between enterprises has also changed from a relationship of competition to that of both competition and cooperation. Knowledge networks can prompt enterprises to strengthen alliances, quickly control and develop new knowledge and skills, and have an impact on various decision-making behaviors of enterprises. The manufacturing industry has accelerated the pace of technological innovation, shortened product life cycles, and the role of knowledge networks has continued to improve. Research on the effect of knowledge networks on the innovation capabilities of traditional manufacturing enterprises and the impact on enterprise upgrades, which seems particularly important.

After clarifying the focus of the research, this paper sorts out the literature related to the research problem, and after a realistic inspection of the current development and upgrade path of the ceramic tile industry, it proposes the mechanism of the knowledge network on the enterprise upgrade, and focuses on the discussion of the knowledge network on the impact of enterprise upgrading, and the intermediary role of enterprise capabilities of innovation.

Next, this paper uses the method of questionnaire survey to design and distribute 241 questionnaires, test the applicability of the questionnaire scale from two aspects of content validity and structure validity, and conduct reliability test through internal consistency. After completing the validity and reliability tests, this article focuses on correlation analysis, and validates the hypothesis through multi-level regression analysis.

For the results of the analysis of this article, this article intends to deepen it from the perspective of the case. This article applies domestic enterprise cases to conduct in-depth discussions, so as to explain and verify the conclusions of the empirical analysis, and get corresponding application enlightenment.

The conclusions of this article are mainly as follows: (1) Knowledge network covers structural dimensions and relationship dimensions. The structural dimensions include network scale, network centrality, and network heterogeneity. The relationship dimensions include relationship quality, relationship strength, and relationship stability. (2) Knowledge network is the main influence content of enterprise capability of innovation. Among them, network centrality, network scale, relationship strength, and relationship quality have a significant positive impact on enterprise capabilities of innovation; (3) Knowledge network and enterprise capabilities of innovation play a key role in enterprise upgrading. Among them, relationship stability and relationship quality in the knowledge network are positively correlated with enterprise upgrading, while network heterogeneity and relationship strength are negatively correlated with enterprise upgrading. Enterprise capability of innovation plays an intermediary role between knowledge network and enterprise upgrading.

Date of Award	28 Apr 2021
Original language	Chinese (Traditional)
Awarding Institution	City University of Hong Kong
Supervisor	Haibin YANG (Supervisor) & Pinliang LUO (External Supervisor)