Knowledge digitization: Characteristics, knowledge advantage and innovation performance

Cheng, Qiang; Liu, Yue; Peng, Chun; He, Xingsong; Qu, Zhouqin; Dong, Qin

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113915

Cited by 15 publications

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“…That is to say, as an enabling technology, digital technology contributes to generate new technology-enabled products, services, and production, termed as "generativity" [66]. The generativity of digital technology derives from its dynamics, self-referentiality, extendibility, and editability [67], allowing continuous improvement and change in innovation activities.…”

Section: Technology Affordance Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Value Chain Digitalization, Global Value Chain Embeddedness, and Distributed Innovation in Value Chains

Qin,

Xie,

Jia

2024

Sustainability

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How does a firm’s value chain digitalization contribute to its innovation in value chains? This study investigates innovation activities in value chains from a combination of distributed innovation perspective and technology affordance theory. We posit that a digital value chain (DVC) plays a pivotal role in driving distributed innovation in value chains. Our focus is specifically directed toward exploring the interconnected dynamics of the DVC, global value chain (GVC), and diversification strategy, elucidating the influence of their interactions on a firm’s distributed innovation in value chains. Leveraging the data of 862 manufacturing firms from the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) in China, our empirical analysis reveals several key findings: (1) value chain digitalization positively influences distributed innovation in value chains and GVC embeddedness, (2) GVC embeddedness enhances distributed innovation in value chains, and (3) product diversification serves as a positive moderator, strengthening the effects of both value chain digitalization and GVC embeddedness on distributed innovation in value chains. In summary, this paper deepens our understanding of the relationships between DVC, GVC, diversification strategy, and distributed innovation in value chains. Our research provides theoretical and policy implications for digitalization and innovation strategies which are significant sources of sustainable development for firms and GVCs.

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Section: Technology Affordance Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Value Chain Digitalization, Global Value Chain Embeddedness, and Distributed Innovation in Value Chains

Qin,

Xie,

Jia

2024

Sustainability

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“…Digital transformation shortens the distance from firms to consumers [78]. Firms can quickly and accurately identify their users' dynamic needs by using digital technologies proactively [79]. In this way, firms' new products and services can accurately meet consumers' requirements and find acceptance in the market [80].…”

Section: The Mediating Effect Of Digital Transformationmentioning

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Foreign executives, digital transformation, and innovation performance: Evidence from Chinese-listed firms

Shao,

Lv,

Fan

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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This study investigates the effect of foreign executives on firms’ innovation performance and the mediation role of digital transformation in Chinese-listed firms from 2011 to 2021. Our findings indicate that the presence of foreign executives in top management teams promotes firms’ innovation performance by enhancing digital transformation. Further analyses show that foreign executives contribute significantly to improving firms’ radical innovation performance rather than incremental innovation performance. We also examine the moderating effect of negative performance feedback and financing constraints between foreign executives and innovation performance, finding that foreign executives can promote innovation performance particularly in firms with negative performance feedback and weak financing constraints.

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“…This study adopts the JD-R model theory to investigate the impact of process digitalization from an employee point of view, that is, considering average salary level and training expenditure as moderating variables. Prior research has examined the influence of digitization transformation from several theoretical aspects, including organizational learning [43,44] and knowledge-based views [45].…”

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Can Process Digitization Improve Firm Innovation Performance? Process Digitization as Job Resources and Demands

Qin,

Shen

2024

Sustainability

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Process digitization as a means to enhance innovation performance has garnered increasing attention from researchers and firms. Digital-driven innovation helps businesses achieve sustainable development. Following the job demands–resources model, we argue that process digitization contributes to job resources and job demands simultaneously, both of which are related to innovation performance. Process digitization offers additional job resources that contribute to enhanced work engagement and foster innovation performance at lower levels, whereas increasing job demands results in exhaustion and hinders innovation performance at higher levels. Therefore, we propose that firms with moderate levels of process digitization are more likely to have higher innovation performance. We further propose that employee training and pay can buffer the negative impact of process digitization on innovation performance. Training serves as an ex ante measure that enables knowledge-based employees to effectively respond to job demands without becoming exhausted. Conversely, pay serves as an ex post measure that compensates for resource depletion caused by excessive job demands, thereby alleviating the adverse effect of exhaustion on innovation performance. Our empirical results based on data from 3823 Chinese firms strongly support our hypotheses.

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Knowledge digitization: Characteristics, knowledge advantage and innovation performance

Cited by 15 publications

References 46 publications

Value Chain Digitalization, Global Value Chain Embeddedness, and Distributed Innovation in Value Chains

Value Chain Digitalization, Global Value Chain Embeddedness, and Distributed Innovation in Value Chains

Foreign executives, digital transformation, and innovation performance: Evidence from Chinese-listed firms

Can Process Digitization Improve Firm Innovation Performance? Process Digitization as Job Resources and Demands

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