Science Research Management ›› 2024, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (8): 95-105.DOI: 10.19571/j.cnki.1000-2995.2024.08.010

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Research on the impact of green technology convergence on the asymmetric catch-up of latecomer firms:A study based on the perspective of dynamic co-opetition

Liu Weiwei, Li Yunze, Bi Kexin   

  1. School of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150006, Heilongjiang, China
  • Received:2023-04-29 Revised:2024-04-19 Online:2024-08-20 Published:2024-08-08

Abstract:    Previous studies on technology catch-up focused on how to implement innovation strategies by taking advantage of latecomer advantages and combining the dynamic competitive relationships between enterprises. From the perspective of enterprise green transformation, this paper extended this catch-up path in two aspects. First, it was proposed that green technology integration can not only "add green" to key technologies to make up for shortcomings, but also form differentiated competitiveness and promote their strengths. Secondly, the integration of green technology in the field of dynamic co-opetition was associated with environmental uncertainty, and the catchup effect of green technology integration was predicted to depend on the degree of market turbulence under environmental uncertainty. This paper took 679 listed companies in China′s heavily polluting industries from 2012 to 2021 as the research objects, calculated the degree of green technology integration from the perspective of co-opetition based on the ecological niche theory, and used regression analysis method to explore the impact of green technology integration on asymmetric catch-up. The empirical results showed that green technology integration in the field of dynamic co-opetition can significantly improve the catch-up performance of latecomer firms in economic and environmental dimensions, market turbulence under environmental uncertainty will strengthen the positive relationship between green technology integration and firm catch-up performance. Specifically, the integration of green technologies from the perspective of co-opetition can make full use of the advantages of latecomers and accelerate the catch-up of asymmetric technologies through cross-field differentiation strategy.

Key words: green technology convergence, dynamic co-opetition, latecomer advantage, technology catch-up, market turbulence