Firm Role, Innovation Capability and Alliance Network: An Empirical Analysis Based on Chinese Communication Equipment Industry

摘要

Considering the structural characteristic and resource characteristic of firm in alliance network, this paper defines and divides the firm role into four categories, including the "poor", the "warehouse", the "hub" and the "trump". What's more, this paper takes the firm alliance of Chinese communication equipment industry between 2000 and 2008 as research object to analyze ea ch firm role's innovation capability, and also gives advices to improve innovation accordingly. The results show that the innovation capability of different firm role is different significantly. The "poor" firm has the weakest innovation capability, and whether the "trump" is strongest at innovation can't be verified. The "warehouse" firm has stronger innovation capability than the "hub", that is, the positive effect of resource characteristic on innovation capability is more than structural characteristic's.