Firms’ innovation positively affects their competitiveness and thus their financial performance. To bridge the research gap in the theoretical framework of dynamic capabilities and respond to the call for papers to explore new ways of analyzing innovation in family businesses, this study investigates how entrepreneurial orientation and absorptive capacity influence innovative capacity in family firms. Data from 156 family firms are analyzed using the theoretical framework of dynamic capabilities and structural equation modeling. The results reveal that both entrepreneurial orientation and absorptive capacity influence innovative capacity and that this influence is greater when both capabilities act together than when they act individually. This study confirms that entrepreneurial orientation and absorptive capacity are antecedents of innovative capacity. Moreover, entrepreneurial orientation has a greater influence on innovative capacity than absorptive capacity does.

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家族企业创新：探索创业取向和吸收能力对创新能力的影响


公司的创新对其竞争力产生积极影响，从而对其财务业绩产生积极影响。为了弥合动态能力理论框架中的研究差距，并响应论文征集的呼吁，探索分析家族企业创新的新方法，本研究调查了创业取向和吸收能力如何影响家族企业的创新能力。使用动态能力和结构方程建模的理论框架分析了来自 156 家家族企业的数据。结果表明，创业取向和吸收能力都会影响创新能力，并且当两种能力一起作用时，这种影响比单独作用时更大。本研究证实，创业取向和吸收能力是创新能力的前提。此外，创业取向对创新能力的影响大于吸收能力。