Research on the Effects of Enterprise-Supplier Information Sharing on Enterprise Innovation Performance

Since 21st Century, Chinese enterprises are faced with severe situation which is rapid technological development, intense competition and personalized customer demand. Chinese enterprises have the only way to adapt to economic globalization and informatization, which is to share the information with suppliers and make full use of information resources, achieving innovation performance steadily. This paper based on the survey of Chinese manufacturer enterprises and the existing research results to propose conceptual model, carrying out the empirical study, and the results show that, (1) the main effect: information sharing of the enterprise and supplier has significant positive influence on communication, trust, commitment and the enterprise innovation performance; communication has significant positive influence on trust and the enterprise innovation performance; trust has significant positive influence on commitment;(2) mediating effect: the mediating communication has a partial mediation effect between enterprise-supplier information sharing and the enterprise innovation performance significantly, but has no significant mediating effect between the information sharing and trust; trust has a significantly mediating effect between information sharing and commitment; commitment has a significantly partial mediating effect between enterprise-supplier information sharing and the enterprise innovation performance. To a certain extent, the conclusion provides the theoretical support to share information between enterprises and suppliers for improving innovation performance of enterprises.