A Study Of The Growth Mechanism Of Technical Capability Of Software Outsourcing Enterprises

With the rapid development of economic globalization and information technology, the software industry which gradually penetrates into various aspects of the national economy and social production, has become foundational and strategic industry of China's national economic system. As an important branch of the software industry, software outsourcing has been paid more attention by governments, and has become new economic growth point. In recent years, software outsourcing enterprises in China have harvested many fruits in both domestic and overseas markets. However, for Chinese software outsourcing enterprises, the scale is smaller and the technical capability is insufficient, so software outsourcing enterprises in China are facing critical challenges under the increasingly intensive competition environment. Therefore, promoting the enterprise technical capability quickly and effectively has become the key factor to advance the development of the software outsourcing enterprises.Many scholars at home and abroad have studied the connotation, influence factors, promotion mechanism and the evolution process of technical capability, but the research on the growth mechanism of technical capability is not sufficient. Especially the technical capability growth mode and growth mechanism of software outsourcing enterprises which have evident characteristics of industry and product, are in urgent need of research. In view of this, based on the software outsourcing enterprise characteristics, this paper discusses the growth mode, growth mechanism and growth promotion mechanism of technical capability of software outsourcing enterprises by using the system dynamics and evolutionary game theory. The main contents of this paper are as follows:Internal research and technical cooperation are two main enterprise technology capability growth modes. Therefore, software outsourcing enterprises need to play game between internal research and technical cooperation according to their own conditions, and determine the growth mode of enterprise technology capability. At the same time, the economic game between enterprises, which is repeated and continuous, could not achieve balanced status through one-time-game. Furthermore, under incomplete information environment, enterprises'decisions are bounded-rational rather than completely rational. So considering the enterprise technical level differences, information asymmetry and the government R&D subsidy, this paper uses evolutionary game theory to analyze the selective mechanism between internal research and technical cooperation in the course of technical development of software outsourcing enterprise, and based on this, establishes the copy dynamic model of technical capability growth mode choice in order to seek its evolutionary stable strategy, and analyzes the results.From the dynamic perspective, this paper studies the growth process of software outsourcing enterprise technology capability by using system dynamics modeling and simulation technology. According to the different accumulative means of enterprise technology capability, this paper builds the system dynamics model of technical capability of software outsourcing enterprises on both internal research and technical cooperation, and illustrates the dynamic relations among the variables. Besides, Sub model of enterprise technology capability based on technical cooperation and the one based on internal research are respectively structured. Then the influence mechanism of technical cooperation between enterprises, technical cooperation between enterprises and technology transfer center, and technical cooperation between enterprises and universities and research institutions to the technical capability is analyzed, so is the impact of human capital relations, physical capital relations and R&D incentive systems to technical capability, and based on these analysis, the enterprise technology capability growth mechanism is clarified.This paper also studies technical capability growth promotion mechanism of software outsourcing enterprises from two aspects, one is technical capability dynamic measure and the other is technical capability incentive systems. After the analysis of the dynamic process of technical capability growth, an evaluation index system of technical capability of software outsourcing enterprises is presented. The indexes are not independent, so the traditional linear evaluation methods, such as fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method, are not applicable. This paper adopts the method of fuzzy measurement and fuzzy integral to build dynamic measure model of technical capability of software outsourcing enterprises. Then, the empirical analysis on investigation data from three software outsourcing enterprises is conducted to test the scientificalness and operability of the models. In addition, this paper analyzes the connotation of technical capability incentive and the features and requirements of the incentive objects, and studies the main incentive factors of technical capability of software outsourcing enterprises. Based on the above analysis, concrete incentive steps are given in four aspects: payment, work, environment and growth.The research provides theory and method for the growth of software outsourcing enterprise technology capability, and helps to strengthen sustainable competitive advantage of software outsourcing enterprises.