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

doi:10.19571/j.cnki.1000-2995.2024.08.016

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Abstract: 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.

Key words: network connection strength, collaborative innovation capability, digital transformation, manufacturing enterprise, asymmetric dependence

Yi Jiabin, Yu Lantian, Wang Yuting, Yang Xiaoping. Network connection strength, collaborative innovation capabilities and digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises[J]. Science Research Management, 2024, 45(8): 154-163.

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