Research on the Influence Mechanism of Supply Chain Configuration on Servitization of Manufacturing Companies
How to realize the high-quality development of manufacturing industry in the new development stage is an important issue that needs to be solved urgently at present.In the face of the new trend of industrial development of the integration of manufacturing and service industry,manufacturing servitization,as the main mode of the integration of manufacturing and service industry,is both an important hand in realizing the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry and an important means of cultivating value-addedness for manufacturing enterprises.In the face of the intensification of uncertainty risk in production cooperation on a global scale,the transformation of servitization of manufacturing enterprises needs to pay more attention to the management of supply chain configuration.Based on the analysis of the theoretical mechanism of how the supply chain configuration of manufacturing enterprises affects the servitization of enterprises,this paper systematically empirically examines the impact of the supply chain configuration of manufacturing enterprises on the servitization of manufacturing enterprises by using the data of China's A-share listed enterprises.Compared with the established research,the possible marginal contributions of this paper are mainly reflected in the following aspects:(1)the research of this paper has beneficially supplemented the research on the relationship between supply chain and servitization of manufacturing enterprises;(2)the research of this paper pays attention to the role of the difference between the upstream and downstream centralisation of the supply chain configuration,and at the same time,also compares the difference in the impact effect of the centralisation of the supply chain configuration on the different modes of servitization of manufacturing enterprises,which provides a clearer path and strategic references for the formulation of the enterprise This provides a clearer path and strategic reference for enterprises to formulate service transformation strategies;(3)The impact of enterprise digitalisation is also considered in this paper,which provides a new perspective for promoting the synergistic development of enterprise digitalisation and servitisation.This paper finds that:(1)supply chain configuration centralization can significantly promote the servitization of manufacturing enterprises,and the conclusion still holds after a series of robustness and endogeneity treatments;(2)the reduction of transaction costs has a mediating role in supply chain configuration centralization to promote the servitization of manufacturing enterprises;(3)supply chain configuration centralization promotes the servitization of manufacturing enterprises in a heterogeneous manner,and the effect is more significant in non-high-tech industries,non-state-owned,and manufacturing enterprises with lower market status than in non-high-tech industries.In comparison,the effect is more significant in non-high-tech industries,non-state-owned and manufacturing enterprises with lower market status,while the effect of supply chain configuration upstream centralization is better than that of supply chain configuration downstream centralization,and the effect of supply chain configuration centralization on the serviceization of manufacturing enterprises'mixed serviceization is stronger than that of embedded serviceization;(4)the degree of enterprise digitization has a negative moderating effect,and further distinguishing the mode of enterprise servitization,the moderating effects mainly work on the mixed-type servitization of manufacturing enterprises.According to the findings of this paper,the following policy insights can be obtained:first,guide the rationalization of supply chain configuration and promote the improvement of the level of servitization of manufacturing enterprises;second,give full play to the important role of non-high-technology and non-state-owned manufacturing enterprises in the transformation of servitization;third,promote the effective synergy between enterprise servitization and digitalization,and help the balanced development of enterprise servitization.