Science Research Management

Science Research Management ›› 2025, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (5): 64-71.DOI: 10.19571/j.cnki.1000-2995.2025.05.007

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Research on the innovation catch-up mechanism of latecomer enterprises promoted by big data capability

Tan Yunqing1,2, Xue Fang3   

  1. 1. School of Business Administration, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, Shanghai 201620, China;
    2. Shanghai Yangtze River Delta Science and Technology Innovation Industry Financial Service Collaborative Innovation Center, Shanghai 201620, China;
    3. School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, Shanghai 201620, China
  • Received:2023-10-25 Revised:2025-01-07 Online:2025-05-20 Published:2025-05-12

Abstract:    Big data has created the possibility of innovation catch-up and a more advantageous starting point for latecomer enterprises, but there is little literature exploring how latecomer companies can use big data to promote innovation catch-up. Based on the theory of enterprise capability, this paper selected 216 enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta region as research samples, constructed a theoretical model of big data capability, capability reconfiguration and latecomer enterprises′ innovation catch-up, and used the hierarchical regression analysis method to deeply explore the impact mechanism of big data capability on the innovation catch-up in latecomer enterprises. The research findings are as follows: (1) Big data capability helps latecomer enterprises to catch up with innovation. (2) Capability reconstruction has a full mediating effect in the impact of big data acquisition capability on the innovation catch-up of latecomer enterprises, while it plays a partial mediating role in the impact of the ability to integrate and apply big data and application capability on the innovation catch-up of latecomer enterprises. (3) The promotion of big data capability on latecomer enterprises′ innovation catch-up has a path dependence on their capability reconfiguration. Finally, corresponding management implications were given from aspects such as strengthening big data capability, enhancing the dynamic construction of enterprise capability and carrying out capability reconfiguration based on different innovation catch-ups. The research conclusions have opened the "black box" between big data capability and latecomer enterprises′ innovation catch-up, enriched the innovation catch-up theory and the dynamic capability theory, and they will provide guidance and reference basis for the dynamic construction of latecomer enterprises′ capability and innovation catch-up in the context of big data.

Key words: big data capability, capability evolution, capability substitution, latecomer enterprise, innovation catch-up