Aug 2026· European Journal of Innovation Management· Vol 29, pp. 574-600· 0 citations· 73 references
TL;DR
This study theoretically explains how the synergy of digital-intelligent policies can promote manufacturing enterprises' ambidextrous innovation by revealing the mediating effects of resource accumulation, utilization and allocation and determines the conditions for amplifying these effects.
Abstract
This study uses manufacturing enterprise data spanning 2011–2023 to explore whether and how the synergistic effects of digital and intelligent policies promote ambidextrous innovation in enterprises based on the resource-based view.
This study builds a quasi-natural experiment using the Broadband China Policy (BCP) and the Intelligent Manufacturing Policy (IMP) and drawing on the theory of the resource-based view to discuss the impacts and influencing mechanisms of policy synergy on enterprises' ambidextrous innovation. A difference-in-difference with a double machine learning technique and a four-stage mediation effect model are applied to complete the empirical tests.
(1) The synergy of digital and intelligent policies notably enhances corporate ambidextrous innovation; (2) resource accumulation, utilization and allocation act as mediating mechanisms; (3) this effect is more pronounced among state-owned enterprises, firms in the growth and maturity stages, large enterprises and non-high-tech enterprises and (4) policy synergy yields greater benefits than any single policy alone, with the sequence of BCP followed by IMP being more effective than the reverse order.
This study theoretically explains how the synergy of digital-intelligent policies can promote manufacturing enterprises' ambidextrous innovation by revealing the mediating effects of resource accumulation, utilization and allocation and determines the conditions for amplifying these effects. This research enriches the relevant literature on enterprises' ambidextrous innovation, resource endowments and policy-driven innovation and provides implications for managers and policymakers who seek to use digital-intelligent policy synergy to promote ambidextrous innovation.
The results show that AI adoption significantly enhances DGS in manufacturing firms, with stronger impacts in high-tech, non-heavy-polluting, and non-state-owned enterprises.
Xiao Tang, Guizhu Tan, Da Gao et al.· Sustainability· 0 citations
Micro-level evidence is provided on AI-driven green transformation in manufacturing enterprises from the dynamic capabilities perspective, offering theoretical and practical insights for advancing high-quality transformation of China’s manufacturing sector in the digital-intelligent era.
Against the backdrop of digitalization and green development, the sharing economy (SE) has become an important business model for manufacturing firms to long-term sustainable innovation. Based on resource orchestration theory and institutional theory, this study takes Chinese A-share-listed manufacturing firms from 2012 to 2021 as the research sample, empirically examines the impact of the sharing economy models (SEMs) on corporate sustainable green innovation (SGI), as well as the underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions. The results show that SEMs significantly promotes SGI, and resource allocation efficiency and servitization play partial mediating roles in this relationship. Furthermore, media attention and ESG ratings positively moderate the abovementioned relationship, whereas the perception of economic policy uncertainty has no significant moderating effect. This study expands the research scope of SEMs and green innovation and offers a practical guide for manufacturing firms to promote digital transformation and sustainable green development.
Tao Meng, Dongxuan Li, Yiwen Liu et al.· Journal of Global Informatio...· 0 citations
Against the backdrop of intensified competition in the digital economy and manufacturing sector, intelligent investment has become a key driver for enterprises' transformation and upgrading. However, in reality, there exists a paradox of "hot policies but cold enterprises", and the direction of the role of competitive culture remains unclear. Based on the resource-based view and dynamic capability theory, this paper takes A-share listed companies in China from 2009 to 2024 as the research sample, and uses text analysis to construct indicators of competitive culture. It empirically examines the impact of competitive culture on intelligent investment and its transmission mechanism. The benchmark regression results show that competitive culture has a significant positive impact on intelligent investment. This conclusion remains valid after a series of robustness tests, including changing the measurement of independent variables, adjusting standard errors, adding control variables, and controlling for fixed effects at different levels. The mediation mechanism test reveals that competitive culture significantly promotes intelligent investment through two paths: by increasing the total asset turnover rate to reduce agency costs and by raising the Herfindahl index to enhance market concentration. This paper uncovers the internal logic and boundary conditions of competitive culture in driving intelligent transformation, providing theoretical basis and empirical reference for enterprises to optimize internal cultural orientation, formulate intelligent investment strategies, and for government departments to improve industrial competition and talent policies.
Shihan Ning· Advances in Economics, Manag...· 0 citations
In an increasingly uncertain market environment, how firms enhance resilience through digital and intelligent transformation (DIT) has become a critical issue. Integrating dynamic capability theory and organizational behavior theory, this study constructs a moderated dual-mediator model to examine DIT’s impact on enterprise resilience from the dual logic of defensive and offensive resilience. Based on panel data of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2014 to 2023, findings reveal that: (1) DIT significantly enhances enterprise resilience; (2) risk management capability and core competitiveness serve as defensive and offensive pathways respectively, partially mediating this relationship; (3) financing constraints exert asymmetric moderating effects, weakening DIT’s promotion of risk management capability while strengthening its cultivation of core competitiveness, revealing the coexistence of survival-oriented and development-oriented behavioral logics under resource constraints. Heterogeneity analysis further indicates that these effects are more pronounced in highly competitive industries and non-state-owned firms. This study opens the mechanism black box of how DIT affects enterprise resilience, providing theoretical foundations for differentiated resource allocation under financial constraints.
Yan Zhao, Fei‐yan Liang, Junguo Hua· Humanities and Social Scienc...· 0 citations
Geopolitical factors coupled with a global economic downturn impose dual constraints on manufacturing enterprises by weakening demand and rising costs. Traditional adaptive innovation appears insufficient to address this issue. Digital recombinant innovation, which involves the functional migration of digital technologies to develop low-cost technology trajectories, offers a key solution. The mechanism underlying this “answers-precede-questions” innovation paradigm lacks theoretical explanation and empirical support. Therefore, exaptation theory is introduced to analyse how artificial intelligence (AI) technology applications shape digital recombinant innovation (reuse/creation).
Multiple linear regression and structural equation modelling were used to analyse data from 525 Chinese manufacturing enterprises concerning the relationships between variables and the importance of paths, respectively. This study aimed to examine the mediating roles of cooperative network bricolage and competitive network bricolage, as well as their complementary and substitutive relationships with digital recombinant innovation.
AI technology application significantly promoted both dimensions, with a stronger effect on digital recombinant creation. This relationship was mediated by two types of network bricolages, with mediating proportions varying by recombination type. A substitution effect was significant only for digital recombinant reuse. A complementary effect existed only for digital recombinant creation but was not statistically significant.
By applying and verifying the concept of digital recombinant innovation, this study provides enterprises in developing countries with a theoretical foundation and practical pathways to overcome technological blockades and achieve sustainable development under dual pressures.
Yu Jin, Jianxin Zhu· European Journal of Innovati...· 0 citations
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