How Does SEW Drive Innovation in an Internet Family Firm Innovation is an important endogenous power to ensure the survival and development of enterprises, especially for the family firms in the internet industry. As an important link of organizational governance, innovation decisionmaking is of great significance. This paper discusses the heterogeneous influence of SEW (social emotional wealth) on internet family firms innovation. In previous studies on the concept of SEW and innovation, the empirical results were often divergent, because the heterogeneity of SEW intention was ignored. According to the classification of SEW, the paper studied the impact of SEW on internet family firm innovation from the perspective of extended SEW and constrained SEW. This thesis more truly reflects the subjective influence of SEW on the innovation decisionmaking of internet family firms.

Information Technology and organizational innovation: Harmonious information technology affordance and couragebased actualization Abstract   Researchers and practitioners have long believed that information technology (IT) is a key tool for fostering innovation. However, there is a certain inconsistency in the literature, which makes it challenging for researchers to figure out exactly how and why IT plays such a pivotal, strategic organizational role. The motivation for this research is the multiple contradictory results reported by studies investigating the influence of information technology (IT) on organizational innovation. This study utilizes a fitbased perspective in an attempt to disentangle these contradictions. Using Venkatramanxe2x80x99s (1989) seminal paper on fit, we conceive of two critical fitbased concepts: harmonious IT affordance in an organization (HITA) and a subsequent fit between HITA and organizational courage. HITA reflects a covariance fit (coalignment) between the three major IT affordances in an organizationxe2x80x94collaborative affordance, organizational memory affordance, and process management affordance. Organizational courage reflects the boldness (risktaking ability) of the organization. Finally, HITA and organizational courage represent a matching fit (reflected as actualized HITA) that influences two kinds of innovation: exploratory and exploitative. Two studies, conducted in the US and Chinese contexts, provide support for this theory. The main contribution of the paper is in showing that IT can lead to innovation if (a) organizational IT affordances harmoniously coalign (as HITA); (b) and, organizational courage acts as a powerful contingency that actualizes HITA, and this actualized HITA influences innovation.