Adaptive Governance, Loose Coupling, Forward-Looking Strategies and Responsible Innovation

• Main Authors: Xia Cao, Dan Lv, Lanting Zhang, Zeyu Xing
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
• Series: IEEE Access
• Subjects: Adaptive governance; loose coupling; forward-looking strategies; responsible innovation
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9300135/
• ISSN: 2169-3536

This paper discusses the relationship among adaptive governance, loose coupling, forward-looking strategies and responsible innovation, and constructs the influence relationship model of ”adaptive governance- loosely coupling- forward looking strategies- responsible innovation”. Then we take 366 managers from middle management and above as well as the technical personnel of enterprises as the investigation objects, and conduct empirical research by using the structural equation model (SEM). The results show that: (1) adaptive governance has a significant positive impact on responsible innovation; (2) loosely coupling partially mediates the effect of adaptive governance on responsible innovation; (3) forward looking strategy partially mediates the effect of adaptive governance on responsible innovation; (4) Loose coupling and forward-looking strategies play a chain mediating role in the relationship between adaptive governance and responsible innovation.