Organizational culture, inter-organizational learning ability and innovation performance of the technology alliance of small and medium enterprises

Technological alliance is regarded to have great impact on innovation of small and medium sized enterprises. However, little research has been done to examine why the individual enterprise has different innovation performance. This paper integrated developmental culture, inter-organizational learning ability and enterprise innovation performance in a model to make clear the innovation mechanism of individual enterprise in the SME alliance. The constructs of the three variables were given and the concept model was proposed first, afterwards an empirical research was carried out using the structure equation model and SPSS and AMOS as statistic tools. The results indicate that as two dimensions of inter-organizational learning ability, knowledge acquisition ability and knowledge absorptive capacity has significantly positive effect on enterprise innovation performance, while developmental culture has positive effect on enterprise inter-organizational learning ability. In addition, inter-organizational learning ability mediates the relationship between developmental culture and innovation performance.