Open innovation, digital transformation, the mediating effect of technological maturity and diversity

Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 16

Published: Feb. 2, 2024

In the backdrop of sharing economy era, enterprises are increasingly recognising strategic value collaborative partnerships with external stakeholders to foster successful digital transformation. This study employs panel data from Chinese-listed companies meticulously examine impact open innovation on transformation, offering empirical insights into intricate relationship between and technological development by dissecting capabilities maturity diversity. The findings underscore mediating role diversity, highlighting their significance as conduits through which influences Conclusion advocates for innovation's application in advances understanding transformation's antecedents. study's exploration technology's enterprise transformation across diversity levels enriches this discourse, providing implications resource allocation decision-making journey.

Language: Английский

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Exploring the effects of digital transformation from a dual (internal vs external) marketing management perspective

European Journal of Innovation Management, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: June 2, 2024

Purpose This paper sheds light on the factors facilitating digital transformation (DT) of companies, examining empirical evidence according to a new and original dual lens: internal external marketing management perspective. Design/methodology/approach Through an explorative research design based semi-structured interviews, we investigate perceptions some managers involved in managing DT their own companies. Findings The findings, organized from perspective, show how requires efforts nurturing: (1) its organizational cultural nature; (2) managerial skills e-leadership. These activate as accelerator (3) production processes service provision (4) competitive strategies. Practical implications Our findings underscore critical practical for organizations embarking journey. Firstly, should prioritize creating culture that encourages employees embrace change technology. Secondly, recognizing importance e-leadership, need invest developing expertise effectively lead efforts. related encompass literacy, ability inspire guide teams through complexities DT. Originality/value suggests holistically approach DT, focusing culture, leadership strategic deployment tools. proposed lens offers valuable simple answer academics practitioners frame dynamics shaping

Language: Английский

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Doing business in the city: environment configurations and firm digital transformation

Management Decision, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 7, 2025

Purpose Digital transformation (DX) is advancing in the post-pandemic era, yet regional disparities remain pronounced. This uneven distribution may be attributed to cities’ doing business environment. As environment comprises various components, we aim explore how these components interact affect local firms' DX, thereby identifying which configurations of contribute DX. Design/methodology/approach The our study contains seven components: public services, government, legal, innovation, market, human resources and financial services environments. We adopt a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis approach determine necessary sufficient conditions for high-level sample consists enterprises listed on China Science Technology Innovation Board. Findings Firstly, single component unnecessary firms produce high- or non-high-level Secondly, four explain DX three general types: (1) dominated by cost hypothesis, (2) synergised resource hypotheses (3) hypothesis. Thirdly, configurational paths generating firms’ are asymmetric only one configuration will lead Originality/value presents ground-breaking exploration mechanisms driving terms city-level its dual functions. Additionally, elucidate reasons development.

Language: Английский

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Digital transformation in large established organisations: Four restructuring dilemmas based on dynamic capabilities

International Journal of Management Reviews, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 30, 2025

Abstract This study explores the intricate strategic implications of digital transformation for large established organisations operating within dynamic environments. While has garnered substantial attention in context startups, face unique challenges balancing existing capabilities with adopting new capacities. research sheds light on how navigate interplay between change and stability during by employing a framework. Through systematic literature review 123 articles from leading journals, categorises into four domains: performance, leadership, governance structure. The findings reveal that each domain, encounter range dilemmas transformation. highlights need to address these operationalise effectively. By offering comprehensive perspective challenges, provides valuable guidance researchers managers seeking complexities organisations. paper concludes outlining potential directions future this evolving field.

Language: Английский

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Digital transformation anxiety: absorptive capacity, dynamic capability, and digital innovation performance

Management Decision, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Aug. 14, 2024

Purpose This study proposes the novel construct of digital transformation anxiety and investigates its effect, which is mediated by absorptive capacity dynamic capability, on innovation performance. Design/methodology/approach conducted a questionnaire survey among Taiwanese manufacturing service companies to verify research framework. A total 130 valid responses were collected analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) bootstrapping test direct mediation effects, respectively. Findings Digital negatively affects whereas capability positively affect Dynamic more strongly mediates association between performance than capacity. Additionally, does not Finally, had significantly higher levels companies. Research limitations/implications address gap in literature. leads adopt unnecessarily conservative practices, preventing them from flexibly responding technological advances. insight highlights negative effect such extending application path dependency theory The findings underscore value enhancing reallocating resources foster innovation. identified explored concept extended perspective include Practical implications current indicate that substantially Consequently, should focus developing their enhance Originality/value explores business units. It presents pioneering framework derived dependence capability.

Language: Английский

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Digital transformation and corporate green innovation: An affordance theory perspective

Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Oct. 10, 2024

Abstract The rise of cutting‐edge technologies motivates corporations to undertake and carry forward green innovation, aiding economic development by maintaining environmental sustainability. Using A‐share listed firms from 2013 2022 as the research sample, paper empirically examines impact digital transformation on corporate innovation an affordance perspective. findings suggest that higher level transformation, backed accumulative variational affordances, in a firm, more conducive it is enables homogenization, recombination, existing information related protection low‐carbon energy efficiency, facilitating achieve targeted breakthrough innovations. analysis moderating effects public concern, policy uncertainty, regional readiness suggested concern positively moderate relationship between while uncertainty perception negatively moderates this relationship. Heterogeneity analyses affects within labor‐intensive state‐owned enterprises. study contributes literature enhancing our understanding theory domain transformation. By investigating key organizational institutional affordances – perception, provides valuable insight policymakers fostering innovation.

Language: Английский

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Visiting and exploring digital transformation management: a bibliometric analysis and review study

Internet Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 6, 2025

Purpose This study aims to explore and understand the literature on digital transformation (DT) research that will lead developing a conceptual thematic structure of DT management. Design/methodology/approach The approach employed hybrid bibliometric analysis structured review management studies from 2017 2023. Although systematic reviews are distinct methods, they complement one another in by enabling synthesis existing literature. Scopus Web Science (WoS) were selected as bibliographic databases for this since generally accepted most comprehensive data sources various purposes. Findings revealed 186 publications during these periods, with top three being Journal Business Research , Horizons California Review . Top-ranking researchers hailed Germany, Japan Spain. Keywords appeared innovation, transformation, artificial intelligence DT. In area, there fewer conceptualising led forming framework using qualitative, interpretative approach. Originality/value These findings relevant understanding phenomenon contributes emerging body knowledge

Language: Английский

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Human and technological actors shaping digital transformation capability: an integrative review

Management Decision, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 63(13), P. 210 - 243

Published: March 28, 2025

Purpose This study aims to clarify and synthesise the fragmented, multidisciplinary digital transformation (DT) literature, addressing three gaps, namely role of cognitive technologies, employee mindsets required paradoxical tensions firms experience as they transform their firms. Cognitive technologies like AI, IoT other autonomous systems simulate human processes, challenging prior firm practices. Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review guided by PRISMA protocol was conducted thematically analyse 83 peer-reviewed articles, drawing on micro-foundations dynamic capabilities. Findings Our findings reveal remain overlooked in bulk DT despite relevance knowledge search, management transactive memory Based capabilities’ aggregate dimensions, our thematic analysis suggests managers should navigate a sensing paradox renewal drivers, seizing innovation posture reconfiguring structural malleability. Originality/value future research agenda is presented steer scholarly interest DT, guide decision-making related advance field beyond its nascent stages considering emergent technologies.

Language: Английский

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Digital Transformation and Corporate Sustainability: The Moderating Effect of Ambidextrous Innovation

Systems, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 11(7), P. 344 - 344

Published: July 5, 2023

Digital transformation (DT) has become the new normal. Research focused on effect of overall level DT in enterprises. However, effects across different dimensions remain unclear. This study divided into technology- (TDT) and market-based digital (MDT). It examined corporate sustainability how ambidextrous innovation affects relationship between both types sustainability. used two-way fixed-effects model two-stage least squares method to A-share listed companies China from 2013 2021. The results showed that TDT MDT had positive higher levels exploratory exploitative enterprises, stronger contribution findings validate research line with resource-based view, enrich literature expand boundary conditions applications various dimensions, offer useful insights for practitioners.

Language: Английский

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Emerging trends around strategic flexibility: a systematic review supported by bibliometric techniques

Management Decision, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 20, 2023

Purpose Strategic flexibility (SF) has become increasingly important for firms because of the fast changes in external environment. In line with practical importance SF, an emerging research field developed around it that attempted to understand nature SF and key relationships. The aim this study is unveil semantic structure recent literature on suggest new promising areas future research. Design/methodology/approach authors conduct a systematic review bibliographic analysis technique, which allows identify main streams literature, as well offer reflections suggestions Findings uncover three namely dynamic capability, role knowledge management relationship between firm put forward avenues SF: Avenue 1. business model innovation (BMI) other capabilities (DC), 2. Digital technologies SF/organizational agility 3. sustainability. Articles included special issue entitled “A strategic perspective flexibility, adaptability digital era” contribute 2, thus paving way filling some identified gaps regarding digitalization. Originality/value To best authors’ knowledge, first uses bibliometric approach draw conclusions findings literature. contributes theoretical understanding by illustrating explicating core topics have persisted over time, presenting further developing SF.

Language: Английский

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