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ABSTRACT Gao, S.; Yin, F.; Chen, J., and Guo, Y., 2019. The Mechanism of Inter-Organizational Collaboration Network on Innovation Performance: Evidences from East Coastal Enterprises in China. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 945–949. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Inter-organizational collaboration network is an important carrier of organizational learning. This paper explores the impact of inter-organizational collaboration network on innovation performance of east coastal enterprises in China from the perspective of organizational learning, and constructs a corresponding theoretical model. The results show that exploitative learning and exploratory learning play an important mediating role in enterprise innovation performance in terms of network centrality and tie strength. Inter-organizational collaborative network has a significant positive impact on organizational learning and enterprise innovation performance. East coastal enterprises should attach importance to the inter-organizational collaborative network, strengthen exploitative learning and exploratory learning, and further enhance the innovation performance of enterprises.