关键词: 企业政治行为, 企业原始性创新, 政治合法性, 组织冗余, Corporate political action, Original innovation, Political legitimacy, Organizational slack

Abstract: Original innovation always requires considerable resources that exceed the firm’s boundary. The transitional economy and Chinese democratization development make firms gradually possess capabilities influencing the shape of government decision and public policy. Drawing on institution based view and resource dependence theory, this study develops and empirically tests a set of hypotheses, aiming at explaining how corporate political activities affect original innovation outcome, and the role of organizational slack in influencing the relationship between corporate political action and original innovation. Data collected form 404 Chinese manufactory firms serve to test the hypotheses. Results highlight that corporate political action increases firm’s political legitimacy, and then original innovation outcome. In addition, organizational slack positively moderates relationship between political legitimacy and original innovation. That is, the positive effect of political legitimacy on original innovation is higher on the higher level of organizational slack. This paper contributes to a better understanding of encouraging mechanism of firm’s original innovation, and provides some suggestions to firms’ practices.