制造业企业网络联结强度、协同创新能力与数字化转型

Network connection strength,collaborative innovation capabilities and digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises

通过开放式、协同化网络创新驱动数字化转型,成为制造业企业适应“工业4.0”和践行“中国制造2025”战略的必然选择。本研究以社会网络理论、动态能力理论等为理论基础,对制造业企业网络联结强度、协同创新能力与数字化转型的交互关系展开研究,并考察协同创新能力的中介效应和不对称依赖的调节作用。通过270份来自制造业企业的实证分析结果表明:制造业企业网络联结强度和协同创新能力对数字化转型具有显著的正向影响;网络联结强度对协同创新能力具有显著的正向影响;协同创新能力对网络联结强度与数字化转型关系具有中介作用,其中对横向网络联结强度与数字化转型起部分中介作用,对纵向网络联结强度与数字化转型起完全中介作用;不对称依赖在网络联结强度与协同创新能力之间起负向调节作用,但对网络联结强度与数字化转型关系以及协同创新能力与数字化转型关系之间不具有调节作用。本文研究成果丰富和拓展了基于社会网络和协同创新双视角的制造业企业数字化转型研究成果,并在实践上为制造业企业在开放式创新背景下推进数字化转型提供了有益的指导和借鉴。

Driving digital transformation through open and collaborative network innovation has become an inevitable choice for manufacturing enterprises to adapt to"Industry 4.0"and implement the"Made in China 2025"strategy.Based on the social network theory and dynamic capability theory,this study investigated the interaction between manufacturing enterprise network connection,collaborative innovation capability,and digital transformation,and examined the mediating effect of collaborative innovation capability and the regulatory role of asymmetric dependence.The empirical analysis of 270 questionnaires from manufacturing enterprises showed that the strength of network connection and collaborative innovation capabilities of manufacturing enterprises have a significant positive impact on digital transformation;the strength of network connection has a significant positive impact on the collaborative innovation capability;collaborative innovation capabilities have a mediating effect on the relationship between network connection and digital transformation,with partial mediating effects on horizontal connection and digital transformation,and complete mediating effects on vertical connection and digital transformation;asymmetric dependence has a negative moderating effect on the relationship between network connection strength and collaborative innovation capability,but it does not have a moderating effect on the relationship between network connection strength and digital transformation,as well as the relationship between collaborative innovation capability and digital transformation.This article enriches and expands the research results of digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises based on the perspectives of social networks and collaborative innovation,and provides useful guidance and reference for manufacturing enterprises to promote digital transformation in the context of open innovation in practice.