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The impact of focal firm’s centrality and knowledge governance on innovation performance

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  • Jianyu Zhao
  • Xi Xi
  • Tao Guo

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This article contributes to the understanding of the impact of focal firm’s centrality on innovation performance by examining knowledge governance’s influence as a mediatory variable. The objective of the research is to find knowledge governance’s mediatory items and test the hypotheses listed. To investigate it, a model of path analysis is established and items of each variable are proposed based on theoretical references. Results imply that total effect between focal firm’s centrality reaches 0.459 in which the direct effect is 0.242 and the indirect effect is 0.217. The data suggest that knowledge governance is a partly mediatory variable between focal firm’s centrality and innovation performance. It is concluded that this connection is attribute to focal firm’s influence on the whole system network. Thus, this kind of research provides relevant research on system innovation performance in view of network variable and focal-firm-based theoretical hypotheses.

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  • Jianyu Zhao & Xi Xi & Tao Guo, 2018. "The impact of focal firm’s centrality and knowledge governance on innovation performance," Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(2), pages 196-207, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tkmrxx:v:16:y:2018:i:2:p:196-207
    DOI: 10.1080/14778238.2018.1457004
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