关键词: 简政放权, 企业活力, 企业创新绩效, 科技型中小企业

Abstract: In the context of comprehensively deepening and actively promoting the reform, the academic world lacks theoretical and empirical studies on the influences of governmental behaviors on enterprise innovation performance from the perspective of streamlining administration and delegating power to enterprises. Based on the relevant theories, with 457 small and medium-sized technology-based enterprises in China as research object, the paper explores the relationship between streamlining administration and delegating power to enterprise, enterprise vitality and enterprise innovation performance. Besides, empirical approaches are applied to verify the influence mechanism of streamlining administration and delegating power to enterprise on enterprise innovation performance. As indicated by the results, streamlining administration and delegating power to enterprises can be divided into two dimensions, namely simplifying administrative procedures and giving autonomy to enterprises. Both of them can have a significantly positive influence on enterprise vitality and enterprise innovation performance. Furthermore, the interaction of “simplifying administrative procedures” and “giving autonomy to enterprises” also have a significantly positive influence on enterprise vitality and enterprise innovation performance. In addition, enterprise vitality plays part of the intermediary role in both the relationship between “simplifying administrative procedures” and enterprise innovation performance and the relationship between “giving autonomy to enterprises” and enterprise innovation performance, but it has a more significant intermediary role when it comes to the relationship between “giving autonomy to enterprises” and enterprise innovation performance. On this basis, the paper further summarizes the theoretical contribution and practical significance of this study.