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This paper provides new perspective to study the impact of relationship capital and absorptive ability on the innovation performance. Considering the character of Chinese enterprise, absorptive ability discussed in this paper is demand-pull absorptive capacity, which can be divided into potential demand-pull absorptive capacity and realized demand-pull absorptive ability. On the basis of questionnaire survey, we confirm the relationship among relationship capital, demand-pull absorptive capacity and innovation performance. We probe into the intermediary roles of the potential demand-pull absorptive capacity and the realized demand-pull absorptive capacity under the positive effects of relationship capital to innovation performance. In addition, we also implement an empirical research on the inner relation between potential absorptive ability and realized absorptive capacity.
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The research was funded by the special project of Science and Technology Development Strategy in Tianjin in 2012 (12ZLZLZF10200), and in 2013 (13ZLZLZF08900).
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Yang, M., Liu, W., Zhang, H. (2014). The Research of Relationship Capital and Demand-Pull Absorptive Capacity Impact on Innovation Performance. In: Xu, J., Cruz-Machado, V., Lev, B., Nickel, S. (eds) Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 281. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55122-2_84
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