智能化转型、智能化能力与制造企业转型绩效——战略匹配的调节作用

Intelligent Transformation,Intelligent Capability and Manufacturing Enterprise Transformation Performance:The Moderating Effects of Strategic Alignment

基于企业能力理论视角研究智能化转型对转型绩效的内在作用机制,并对234份智能化企业调查问卷进行实证研究,结果发现:制造企业智能化转型正向影响转型绩效;装备智能化能力、管理智能化能力在智能化转型与转型绩效关系中起中介作用,但人员智能化能力在智能化转型与转型绩效间的中介作用不显著;战略匹配正向调节智能化转型与转型绩效的关系,同时战略匹配正向调节智能化转型与装备智能化能力的关系,以及智能化转型与管理智能化能力的关系,但在智能化转型与人员智能化能力关系中的调节作用不显著;战略匹配正向调节智能化转型通过装备智能化能力、管理智能化能力对转型绩效的促进作用。

Nowadays,the major countries are developing intelligent manufacturing for international industrial leadership.The United States,China and the European countries have formulated several policies to promote the intelligent transformation of traditional manufacturing enterprises.Scholars have discussed the connotation of intelligent transformation of manufacturing enterprises from different angles,and analyzed the process of intelligent transformation of manufacturing industry as well as the internal mechanism of intelligent transformation of manufacturing enterprises,but they have ignored the results of intelligent transformation of manufacturing enterprises and fail to answer the question of how manufacturing enterprises achieve better transformation performance through intelligent transformation.This question can be further divided into two questions:what the path mechanism of intelligent transformation on the transformation performance of manufacturing enterprises is and the adjustment effect of strategy matching.By constructing the adjustment mechanism of strategic matching,this paper aims to make a new theoretical explanation of the internal mechanism of intelligent transformation on intelligent ability and transformation performance.This study selects industrial Internet pilot companies in 8 regions including Beijing,Guangdong,Shandong,Jiangsu,Shanghai,Anhui,Chongqing,and Guizhou from 2018 to 2021 as the research objects.Questionnaire surveys are conducted on the leaders or middle-level and senior managers of the intelligent project teams of these companies with a total of 234 valid questionnaires.The structural equation model is used for the empirical research and it has the following findings.Firstly the intelligent transformation of manufacturing companies is positively affecting the transformation performance.Secondly there is significant moderating effect of equipment intelligence capabilities and management intelligence capabilities on the relationship between intelligent transformation and transformation performance;however,the moderating role of personnel intelligence capabilities in the relationship between intelligent transformation and transformation performance is not significant.Thirdly strategic alignment positively moderates the relationship between intelligent transformation and transformation performance,equipment intelligence capabilities,and management intelligence capabilities.Yet the moderating effect of strategic alignment in the relationship between intelligent transformation and personnel intelligent ability is not significant.Lastly strategic alignment positively moderates the promotion process of equipment intelligence capabilities and management intelligence capabilities to transformation performance.The innovations of this study are as follows.(1)Based on the core theoretical basis of enterprise capability theory,the theoretical model of"Intelligent Transformation-Intelligent Capability-Transformation Performance"in which traditional manufacturing enterprises are embedded in the intelligent manufacturing context is constructed.It provides a new theoretical framework and subdivision changes for the research on the performance of the intelligent transformation of manufacturing enterprises.(2)Through the introduction of the important variable of intelligent ability,it has proved that intelligent ability has a partial mediating effect on intelligent transformation and transformation performance,and demonstrated that equipment intelligent ability and management intelligent ability have a conductive effect between intelligent transformation and transformation performance,opening the"black box"in the path from intelligent transformation to transformation performance.(3)The study has discovered the positive moderating effect of strategic matching in the relationship between intelligent transformation and transformation performance,and verified the universality and particularity of intelligent transformation in promoting transformation performance of manufacturing enterprises from the perspective of corporate strategy.To promote the intelligent transformation of Chinese manufacturing enterprises,this study provides specific suggestions for the implementation of intelligent transformation in terms of key equipment intelligence,personnel intelligence ability,management intelligence level,rapid response ability and performance level of the manufacturing system,etc.Future research can further explore the internal mechanism of intelligent transformation on transformation performance based on dynamic learning ability,data empowerment and other perspectives,so as to enrich research results in this field.The follow-up research can be further improved in combination with the financial statements to improve the reliability and validity of the research content.