Corporate social responsibility as a driver of digital innovation in SMEs: the mediation effect of absorptive capacity

被引：10

作者：

Stock, Christoph ^{[1
]}

Hossinger, Stefan ^{[2
]}

Werner, Arndt ^{[1
]}

Schell, Sabrina ^{[3
]}

Soluk, Jonas ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Siegen, Chair SME Management & Entrepreneurship, Unteres Schloss 3, D-57076 Siegen, Germany

[2] Investment Strategy Dev & Sustainable Finance, Versorgungsanstalt Bundes & Lander, Hans Thoma Str 19, D-76133 Karlsruhe, Germany

[3] Univ Appl Sci Bern, Inst New Work, Brackenstr 734, CH-3005 Bern, Switzerland

[4] Stockholm Sch Econ, House Innovat, Saltmatargatan 13-17, S-11359 Stockholm, Sweden

来源：

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURING | 2022年 / 14卷 / 4-5期

关键词：

SMEs; small and medium-sized enterprises; boundary-spanning theory; digital innovation; corporate social responsibility; absorptive capacity; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE; DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES; FIRM PERFORMANCE; STRONG TIES; CSR; FRAMEWORK; FAMILY; CREDIBILITY; PERSPECTIVE;

D O I：

10.1504/IJEV.2022.127451

中图分类号：

C93 [管理学];

学科分类号：

12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;

摘要：

Currently, digital innovation is one of the biggest challenges facing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This study analyses how SMEs can achieve higher levels of digital innovation despite their lack of resources. Using a dataset consisting of 520 German SMEs, we propose and test a model in which corporate social responsibility enables knowledge-sharing and supports SMEs in acquiring the resources needed for digital innovation development. As hypothesised, we found empirical evidence for a positive mediation effect in which absorptive capacity links corporate social responsibility and an SME's digital innovation output. In sum, this study helps to explain the relationship between corporate social responsibility and an SME's digital innovation, thus presenting far-reaching implications for SME research and the emerging scholarly debate on digital innovation in resource-constrained organisations.

引用

页码：571 / 601

页数：32

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