Research on innovation performance of traditional manufacturing enterprises in digital economy
創新績效 ; 動態能力 ; 大數據分析能力 ; 數字賦能 ; 模糊集定性比較分析(fsQCA)方法
Innovation Performance; Dynamic Capability ; Big Data Analytics Capability ; Digital Enablement ; Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) Approach
Under the background of big data, the traditional manufacturing industry is changing towards digitalisation, networking and intelligence. Although traditional manufacturing enterprises in China have made great achievements in innovation in recent years, there is still a big gap between them and some developed countries in terms of independent innovation capability and quality of innovation. The topic of how traditional manufacturing enterprises can analyse and use big data to improve their innovation performance has aroused widespread concern. At the same time, the complex economic situation at home and abroad and the advent of the digital economy make enterprises have to improve their innovation performance to cope with the fast-changing environment. With the large-scale application of enabling technologies such as big data, Internet of Things, cloud computing, block chain, artificial intelligence, etc., there is a deep integration between the real economy and digital enablement, which provides a new impetus for enterprise innovation. Enterprises, as the micro subject of digital empowerment, should keep innovating to maintain their original competitiveness.
This paper investigates the grouping of factors affecting the high innovation performance of traditional manufacturing enterprises in the context of the digital economy, and explores the relationship between the different groupings of large-digit analytical ability, perceptual ability, absorptive ability, and digital empowerment conditions and the high innovation performance of enterprises. This paper takes the core personnel responsible for innovation or the executives of traditional manufacturing enterprises in Jiangxi Province as the research target, and based on the existing domestic and international studies, adopts the research method of fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to start the research. Firstly, relevant domestic and international studies on big data analytical capability, dynamic capability, digital empowerment, innovation performance and traditional manufacturing industry were reviewed. Secondly, the degree of innovation performance and its influencing factors of traditional manufacturing enterprises in Jiangxi Province were measured through questionnaires, and a pre-survey was conducted before the formal survey to ensure the reasonableness of the survey instrument, and the formal survey was conducted to finally obtain 99 valid questionnaires, with a validity rate of 96.17%. Thirdly, the fsQCA method was used to calibrate the data, and the analysis of the necessity conditions and the analysis of the sufficiency of conditions for the condition configuration were carried out. Thirdly, the fsQCA method was used to calibrate the data, conduct the necessary condition analysis and the sufficient condition analysis of the conditional configurations, which concluded that the ability of big data analysis is a necessary condition for the enhancement of innovation performance of traditional manufacturing enterprises; finally, the results of the study revealed the internal logic of multiple conditional variables in the enhancement of innovation performance of traditional manufacturing enterprises, and based on the internal logic, concluded that the optimal choice of paths in different contexts.
The main findings of this paper are as follows: firstly, there is a grouping relationship among the key factors affecting traditional manufacturing enterprises to improve their innovation performance; secondly, the improvement of enterprises' innovation performance is a phenomenon caused by the concurrence of multiple paths; thirdly, the ability to analyse big data plays a central role in the improvement of enterprises' innovation performance; and lastly, there is a substitution effect among the conditional factors in the process of enterprises' improvement of their innovation performance.