經濟性與社會性因素對決定台灣中小企業創新能力的實證研究

The Economic and Social Determinants of Innovation Capabilities: An Empirical Study of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Taiwan

本論文研究經濟性與社會性因素對中小企業創新能力的影響。本論文認為，交易成本因素將直接影響到公司內部對創新能力的培養與發展，而社會資本將形成或正或負的干擾效果。本論文對紡織產業與禮品產業的台灣中小企業作問卷調查，140個有效樣本分析結果支持本論文的假說，歸納如下：（1）資產專屬性及外部不確定性會促進公司對創新能力的培養與發展；（2）公司之間的互惠行為會加強外部不確定性對公司創新能力的促進；（3）公司之間資訊的流通會降低資產專屬性對公司創新能力的促進，但強固的社會網絡卻會加強資產專屬性對公司創新能力的促進。

This paper investigates economic and social determinants of innovation capabilities of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Transaction cost factors directly influence a firm’s strategy to breed and develop internal innovation capabilities where social capital plays both positively and negatively as a moderator. A survey of 140 effective samples of SMEs in Taiwan’s textile and giftware industries supports our hypotheses: (1) increase in asset specificity and external uncertainty promotes strong firm innovation capabilities, (2) positive effects of external uncertainty on firm innovation capabilities become stronger as inter-firm reciprocity increases, and (3) positive effects of asset specificity on firm innovation capabilities become weaker as information increases, and stronger as network solidarity increases.