How does intelligent manufacturing affects enterprise innovation? The mediating role of organisational learning

Abstract

ABSTRACT Yang et al. (2020) find that intelligent manufacturing has asignificant promoting effect on enterprise innovation, but the effect mechanism is still ablack box to be opened. To investigate the role of organisational learning in intelligent manufacturing and enterprise innovation, this study uses the public data of listed enterprises in China’s manufacturing industry to conduct research using continuous time difference-in-differences method. The results show that intelligent manufacturing can promote both innovation input and innovation output of enterprises. Further mechanism research finds that intelligent manufacturing promotes organisational learning by improving organisational learning environment, learner quality and organisational learning investment, and thus promotes enterprise innovation.