The impact of Organizational Legitimacy on SRDI enterprises’ Innovation Resilience: A case study of Henan Province, China
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This study examines how Organizational Legitimacy influences Innovation Resilience in SRDI enterprises, with Absorptive Capacity as a mediator and Inter-organizational Social Capital as a moderator. Based on resource-based, dynamic capability and social capital theories, it constructs a framework in which legitimacy boosts resilience through resistance, recovery and re-growth capabilities. Analyzing 421 Henan SRDI enterprises via SEM, the results show that legitimacy promotes resilience directly and indirectly through absorptive capacity, while social capital positively moderates this link. Mature enterprises gain institutional dividends by overcoming the "legitimacy blind spot", and social capital acts as a "network amplifier". This research integrates institutional and capability perspectives, offering new explanations for SRDI enterprises’ resilience under external shocks.
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