Managerial ties and exploratory innovation: An opportunity-motivation-ability perspective
本研究从机会-动机-能力视角出发，发现商业关系通过创新导向和吸收能力的共同强化能促进探索性创新，而政治关系的影响则被两者交互作用负向调节，为企业整合管理关系与内部能力提供了启示。
Drawing on the opportunity-motivation-ability perspective, this study examines the linkages of business and political ties to exploratory innovation, and explores the joint moderating effects of innovation orientation and absorptive capacity on the linkages. It finds that the positive linkage between business ties and exploratory innovation is jointly strengthened by innovation orientation and absorptive capacity, while the insignificant linkage of political ties to exploratory innovation is moderated negatively by the interaction of innovation orientation and absorptive capacity. This study enriches the discipline's knowledge on the antecedents of exploratory innovation. Moreover, it contextualizes the effects of managerial ties on an important but overlooked type of innovation-exploratory innovation-and illustrates how a firm can integrate managerial ties with innovation orientation and absorptive capacity to realize their implications for exploratory innovation, which advances our understanding of the relationships between managerial ties and firm innovations.