Abstract
This paper investigates the relationships between digital transformation, boundary spanning, and sustainable competitive advantage of manufacturing enterprises through an analysis of data from 127 manufacturing enterprises. Our main research findings are as follows. First, digital transformation has a positive impact on sustainable competitive advantage of manufacturing enterprises. Compared with the degree of transformation, technology readiness has a stronger influence on sustainable competitive advantage. Second, digital transformation has a positive impact on boundary spanning of manufacturing enterprises. Third, boundary spanning of manufacturing enterprises has a positive impact on their sustainable competitive advantage. Fourth, digital transformation affects the acquisition of sustainable competitive advantages of enterprises through boundary spanning, where the direct role of digital transformation accounts for 75% and the mediation effect of boundary spanning accounts for 25% of the total effect. Fifth, the mediation effect of boundary spanning on the relationship between digital transformation and sustainable competitive advantage is mainly realized through boundary spanning depth, while the mediation effect of boundary spanning breadth on the relationship between digital transformation and sustainable competitive advantage is insignificant. Our findings can help realize the digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises and achieve their sustainable competitive advantage.
Highlights
With the advance of the fifth technological revolution and the full penetration of a new generation of information technology, industrial and economic powers have put forward strategies based on the integration of information technology and manufacturing enterprises, such as “National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing Industry” and “Industry 4.0.” e global manufacturing landscape is undergoing deep changes
According to the test results, technology readiness has a significant positive correlation with boundary spanning breadth, boundary spanning depth, and sustainable competitive advantage. e degree of transformation has a significant positive correlation with boundary spanning breadth, boundary spanning depth, and sustainable competitive advantage. ere is a significant positive correlation between boundary spanning depth and sustainable competitive advantage. e correlation between each variable is significant at the level of 0.01, which is consistent with the research hypotheses of this study and provides a basis for further verification of the hypotheses
According to the mediation test procedure proposed by Wen et al [65], this study adopts hierarchical multiple regression and uses SPSS 24 software for hypotheses testing. e hierarchical regression model and analysis results are shown in Table 5. e collinearity diagnosis results reveal that the tolerance of each independent variable is greater than 0.1 and the Variable Inflation Factor (VIF) is less than 10, indicating that there is no serious collinearity problem
Summary
With the advance of the fifth technological revolution and the full penetration of a new generation of information technology, industrial and economic powers have put forward strategies based on the integration of information technology and manufacturing enterprises, such as “National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing Industry” and “Industry 4.0.” e global manufacturing landscape is undergoing deep changes. It is an innovation that uses information processing technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of ings to connect enterprises, consumers, suppliers, and other stakeholders with physical and mechanical units to create complex and novel products and services [4] It highlights the integration of production factors. Ird, most of the existing research explores the impact mechanism of digital transformation on manufacturing enterprises from internal factors such as human capital structure, organization, and innovation [6, 9] or external factors such as the value chain or network alliance [14, 15]. This study attempts to summarize the overall characteristics of manufacturing enterprise boundary spanning behavior at the organizational level and tries to frame and verify the impact mechanism between manufacturing enterprise digital transformation, boundary spanning behavior, and sustainable competitive advantage using empirical research methods.
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