The Contingent Effect of IT Use on Product Innovation in the Transition Economy: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis

IF 3 4区 管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
Feng Zhang, Geoffrey G. Bell, Dahui Li, Lidong Wu
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ABSTRACT Scholars have developed a large and robust literature examining the impact of IT on firm innovation. However, this literature often produces divergent, likely context-dependent, results and tends to be limited to developed economies. As a result, we have only partial knowledge about how IT use impacts product innovation. This study rectifies that deficiency and resolves prior divergent findings by employing fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to investigate the contingent effects of IT use for exploration and exploitation on product innovation in China, which is transitioning from a centrally planned economy to a market economy. We draw on a unique sample of 262 Chinese manufacturing firms that responded to the World Bank’s Enterprise Survey and developed several configurations of conditions where IT use fostered product innovation depending on the institutional characteristics of a transitional economy, specifically its degree of market competitiveness and legal enforcement. Our findings share similarities to prior studies set in developed economies, while demonstrating features unique to a transition economy. Using a configurational approach reveals the combinational and asymmetric relationships among IT use, the institutional environment, and resultant product innovation. This helps understand situational characteristics often unexamined in prior studies and complements the findings from regression-based studies.
转型经济中信息技术使用对产品创新的偶然效应:定性比较分析
学者们已经开发了大量强有力的文献来研究信息技术对企业创新的影响。然而,这些文献往往产生不同的、可能依赖于上下文的结果,而且往往仅限于发达经济体。因此,我们对IT使用如何影响产品创新只有部分的了解。本研究通过模糊集定性比较分析(fsQCA)来研究信息技术用于探索和开发对中国产品创新的偶然影响,从而纠正了这一不足,并解决了先前的分歧结果。中国正在从中央计划经济向市场经济转型。我们利用262家中国制造企业的独特样本,这些企业回应了世界银行的企业调查,并根据转型经济的制度特征,特别是其市场竞争力和法律执行程度,开发了几种信息技术使用促进产品创新的条件配置。我们的研究结果与先前在发达经济体进行的研究有相似之处,同时展示了转型经济的独特特征。使用配置方法揭示了IT使用、制度环境和最终产品创新之间的组合和不对称关系。这有助于理解在以前的研究中经常未被检查的情境特征,并补充了基于回归的研究结果。
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Journal of Global Information Technology Management
Journal of Global Information Technology Management INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-
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4.10
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19
期刊介绍: The Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM) is a refereed international journal that is supported by Global IT scholars from all over the world. JGITM publishes articles related to all aspects of the application of information technology for international business. The journal also considers a variety of methodological approaches and encourages manuscript submissions from authors all over the world, both from academia and industry. In addition, the journal will also include reviews of MIS books that have bearing on global aspects. Practitioner input will be specifically solicited from time-to-time in the form of invited columns or interviews. Besides quality work, at a minimum each submitted article should have the following three components: an MIS (Management Information Systems) topic, an international orientation (e.g., cross cultural studies or strong international implications), and evidence (e.g., survey data, case studies, secondary data, etc.). Articles in the Journal of Global Information Technology Management include, but are not limited to: -Cross-cultural IS studies -Frameworks/models for global information systems (GIS) -Development, evaluation and management of GIS -Information Resource Management -Electronic Commerce -Privacy & Security -Societal impacts of IT in developing countries -IT and Economic Development -IT Diffusion in developing countries -IT in Health Care -IT human resource issues -DSS/EIS/ES in international settings -Organizational and management structures for GIS -Transborder data flow issues -Supply Chain Management -Distributed global databases and networks -Cultural and societal impacts -Comparative studies of nations -Applications and case studies
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