The strategic motivation of performance-oriented innovation in the predicament is to improve the performance level of enterprises and reverse the unfavorable situation. Therefore, the rapid return on investment is often pursued, and the investment effect of technological innovation is required to be quickly reflected in the improvement of enterprise performance. At the same time, when the performance of the enterprise is poor, the supervision of various stakeholders (shareholders, creditors, etc.) is strengthened. ) will increase, and it is difficult for managers to obtain long-term investment space and patience. Therefore, in the performance-oriented dilemma innovation, managers prefer to adopt the innovation mode of technology introduction, because compared with independent research and development, technology introduction has the characteristics of short investment cycle and low uncertain risk. The introduction of mature technological achievements can be commercialized quickly, improve the product quality of enterprises or introduce new products to the market, thus improving the performance dilemma of enterprises. Therefore, according to the above analysis, we can draw the following propositions.
P 1a: poor enterprise performance will lead to an increase in investment intensity of technological innovation.
P 1b: In the process of performance-oriented innovation, enterprises are more inclined to adopt the innovation mode of technology introduction.