数字化转型如何驱动企业融通创新？——基于研发操纵与资源柔性的中介效应分析

How does digital transformation drive integrated innovation in enterprises? ——An analysis based on the mediating effects of R&D manipulation and resource flexibility

摘要:

如何利用数字化转型切实推动产业链上中下游实现融通创新，有效达成创新资源整合与价值共创，已成为当前培育新质生产力的关键课题。本文以动态能力理论为理论基础，以2000-2023年中国沪深A股上市公司数据为研究样本，探究数字化转型影响企业融通创新的作用机制。研究发现数字化转型与企业融通创新呈现倒U型关系，经济政策不确定性及市场集中度负向调节该倒U型关系；数字化转型通过降低企业研发操纵、提高资源柔性促进企业融通创新发展。本研究可为企业在“十五五”期间科学规划数字化转型路径、优化创新生态体系提供理论及实践依据。

Abstract:

Effectively leveraging digital transformation to promote integrated innovation across upstream, midstream, and downstream segments of the industrial chain, thereby achieving the integration of innovation resources and value co-creation, which has become a critical issue in fostering new quality productive forces. Grounded in dynamic capability theory, this study employs a sample of A-share listed firms in China from 2000 to 2023 to investigate the mechanisms through which digital transformation influences firms’ integrated innovation. The findings reveal an inverted U-shaped relationship between digital transformation and integrated innovation. Moreover, economic policy uncertainty and market concentration negatively moderate this inverted U-shaped relationship. Further analysis indicates that digital transformation facilitates integrated innovation by reducing firms’ R&D manipulation and enhancing resource flexibility. This study provides both theoretical and practical implications for enterprises to scientifically plan digital transformation pathways and optimize innovation ecosystems during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.