How Does Enterprise Openness Enhance Open Innovation Performance? The Dual Mediating Roles of Knowledge Management Capability and Organizational Learning

In the context of sustainability, open innovation has increasingly been embraced as a viable innovation paradigm by numerous enterprises. In the academic field, how enterprise openness affects innovation performance has also become a hotspot in the research area of open innovation. However, existing studies have not sufficiently delved into the mechanism underlying the impact of openness on open innovation performance. This study attempts to introduce knowledge management capability and organizational learning as dual mediating variables, and further decompose their dimensions to construct a mechanism model of how enterprise openness influences open innovation performance. Multiple research methods such as structural equation modeling analysis and Bootstrap test are employed to verify the relevant hypotheses. The results show that both external knowledge management capability and internal knowledge management capability play a mediating role between openness and open innovation performance; similarly, both explorative learning and exploitative learning also exert a mediating effect in the relationship between openness and open innovation performance. Moreover, enterprise openness can enhance open innovation performance through the dual chain mediating effects of external knowledge management capability - explorative learning and internal knowledge management capability - exploitative learning. This study not only achieves an organic integration of knowledge management theory and organizational learning theory by constructing a chain mediation mechanism of ability-learning-performance, but also provides a more systematic and comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding the influencing mechanisms of open innovation performance, thereby advancing theoretical development in this field.