Digital Knowledge Search,Capability Reconfiguration and Radical Innovation
The emergence of digital technology has changed the way enterprises obtain resources and created conditions for en-terprises to make radical innovation.The capability reconfiguration of enterprises to adapt to the change of the environment,as the endogenous force driving the development of enterprises,has a decisive impact on the radical innovation achievements of enterprises.In this context,how to promote the capability reconfiguration of enterprise through digital knowledge search,and then achieve radical innovation,has become a key problem to be solved in the theoretical and practical circles.Based on the integration perspective of knowledge management theory and dynamic capability theory,the research frame-work of knowledge-capability-innovation output is constructed,and the relationship between digital internal knowledge search,digital external knowledge search,capability evolution,capability substitution and radical innovation is discussed as well.Based on the research questionnaires of 267 enterprises,using Amos21.0 software for structure equation analysis,and multiple methods such as bootstrap and Mackinnon Prodclin method,we examined whether there were positive relationships between digital internal knowledge search,digital external knowledge search,capability evolution,capability substitution and radical in-novation.In addition,we further tested the intermediary role of both capability evolution reconfiguration and capability substi-tution reconfiguration in digital internal knowledge search and external knowledge search and radical innovation.The results of the study show that,digital knowledge search has a significant positive impact on the radical innovation of enterprises;Capability reconfiguration mediates the relationship between digital knowledge search and radical innovation;The paths of the two dimensions of digital knowledge search impacting radical innovation are different:digital external knowledge search can both directly affect the radical innovation of enterprises and indirectly influence radical innovation through capabil-ity evolution and capability substitution,digital internal knowledge search can only indirectly influence radical innovation through capability evolution;The two dimensions of capability reconfiguration have different intermediary roles between digit-al knowledge search and radical innovation,and capability evolution plays a more important mediating role than capability substitution.The results test the influence of digital knowledge search on enterprise radical innovation,supplement the theoretical un-derstanding of the dependent variables before radical innovation,reveal the function path and mechanism of digital knowledge search on radical innovation,clarify the differential mediation role of evolution and substitution in radical innovation,and ex-pand the related research on dynamic capability.In the meantime,the research results have enlightenment effect on the selec-tion of enterprise digital knowledge search strategy,capability reconstruction practice and radical innovation practice.