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| The Impact of Knowledge Base and Cognitive Distance to Firm’s Ambidexterity Innovation Performance |
| ZENG Deming，CHEN Peizhen |
| Hunan University, Changsha, China |
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Abstract This study investigates the influence of enterprise knowledge base on ambidexterity innovation performance from two dimensions of breadth and depth of knowledge base, and analyzes the moderating effect of knowledge cognitive distance on the breadth of knowledge base and the ambidexterity innovation performance. Using data of listed firms in Chinese Electronic and Telecommunications Equipment from 1989 to 2013，the result shows that knowledge base breadth has an inversed U shaped relationship with firm’s exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation; knowledge base depth has an inversed U shaped influences on firm’s exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation; cognitive distance has negative moderating effect on the relationship between knowledge base breadth and firm’s exploitative innovation, but the moderating effect on the relationship between knowledge base breadth and firm’s explorative innovation is not significant.
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Received: 13 May 2016
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