The Mechanism of Enterprise External Network Affecting Its Performance: From the Perspective of Absorptive Capacity

Performance especially innovation performance is an important goal for enterprises. With the development of globalization economy and knowledge economy, networks have become an important way to improve enterprise performance. While, however, most of the existing research on the impact of enterprise external network on its performance merely emphasize the role of their network location and neglect the heterogeneity themselves, and thus, leading to contradictory conclusions. In this paper, independent variable is enterprise external network, intermediate variable is absorptive capacity and dependent variable is enterprise performance. Based on these definitions, the paper conducts a further study on the mechanism of enterprise external network affecting its performance.