Informed by the knowledge-based theory of the firm, the study explores how internal absorptive capacity and external inter-organisational collaboration jointly promote business model innovation (BMI). Drawing on the relevant existing literature, a model linking collaboration breadth, collaboration depth, absorptive capacity, and BMI was constructed and tested. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis of the results of a questionnaire-based survey of 317 senior managers in manufacturing firms revealed that both collaboration breadth and collaboration depth are positively related to BMI. Collaboration depth has no significant moderating effect on the collaboration breadth–BMI relationship, and absorptive capacity has no significant moderating effect on relations between BMI and collaboration breadth or collaboration depth. However, the joint moderating effects of absorptive capacity and collaboration depth on the collaboration breadth–BMI relationship were positively significant. These results have a number of implications for research on BMI and innovation management and for the development of knowledge-based theory.

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跨组织协作与商业模式创新：吸收能力与协作深度的共同调节作用

该研究以企业知识为基础的理论为指导，探讨了内部吸收能力和外部组织间协作如何共同促进商业模式创新（BMI）。借鉴现有相关文献，构建并测试了将协作广度、协作深度、吸收能力和BMI联系起来的模型。对制造业公司 317 名高级管理人员的问卷调查结果的分层多元回归分析表明，协作广度和协作深度都与 BMI 呈正相关。协作深度对协作广度-BMI关系无显着调节作用，吸收能力对BMI与协作广度或协作深度的关系无显着调节作用。然而，吸收能力和协作深度对协作广度-BMI关系的联合调节作用是正显着的。这些结果对 BMI 和创新管理的研究以及基于知识的理论的发展具有许多意义。