Co-creating values for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements: research on the structural hole filling behavior of stakeholders
ISSN: 1750-614X
Article publication date: 28 February 2023
Issue publication date: 8 February 2024
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to explore how stakeholders leverage their guanxi and structural holes to promote knowledge mobilization to increase the performance of sci-tech achievement transformation.
Design/methodology/approach
This study conducted questionnaires, a social network analysis and semistructured interviews to examine its hypotheses by gathering data from a university and an enterprise in China.
Findings
Structural holes impede knowledge mobilization among stakeholders in their network, but guanxi moderates this impeding effect. In addition, knowledge mobilization promotes transformation performance.
Originality/value
By developing a mechanism to illustrate how stakeholders strategically leverage their guanxi and structural holes to affect the efficacy of knowledge mobilization to increase transformation performance, we reveal how stakeholders interact to co-create values for innovation, thereby contributing to the innovation and knowledge management literature.
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Acknowledgements
The author acknowledges the contribution of two authors, Mr Li Haoye and Professor Ding Jinxi, who provided invaluable help during the manuscript revision process. On the occasion, the author would like to express sincere gratitude to Mr Li Haoye and Professor Ding Jinxi.
Citation
Liu, J. (2024), "Co-creating values for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements: research on the structural hole filling behavior of stakeholders", Chinese Management Studies, Vol. 18 No. 2, pp. 289-306. https://doi.org/10.1108/CMS-02-2022-0052
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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