On the Mechanism of the Impact of Relational Embeddedness on Firm's Technological Innovation： The Mediation and Moderation Effects of Organizational Learning Capability
Abstract Relational embeddedness can make sense to both incremental innovation and radical innovation, but the mechanisms of the two innovations are different. As far as incremental innovation is concerned, organizational learning capability mainly acts as the mediator between the strong tie and incremental innovation, while it mainly acts as the moderator between the weak tie and incremental innovation. In the case of radical innovation, organizational learning capability can only act as the mediator for the strong tie, but for the weak tie it can be both the mediator and moderator.
