推动企业加快数字化转型,对于增强企业核心竞争力、赋能传统产业转型升级并带动我国数字经济做大做强具有重要意义.本文立足管理者角色理论与动态能力理论,使用基于偏最小二乘估计的结构方程模型(partial least square-structural equation modeling,PLS-SEM)实证分析企业数字化转型前因.研究结果表明:1)企业家精神、数字文化宣传者、组织结构变革者等管理者特征,以及感知能力、学习能力、整合能力、协调能力等企业动态能力,均正向促进企业的数字化转型倾向及产出;2)进一步分析发现,管理者特征能够显著提升企业动态能力水平,且管理者特征对数字化转型的影响效果受到政策不确定性感知的调节;3)上述效应在不同产权性质及不同地区的企业之间存在异质性.上述结果丰富了数字化转型前因的相关研究,为企业培养数字时代管理者并提升动态能力提供了一条可行的实践路径.
Manager characteristics,dynamic capabilities and enterprise digital transformation:PLS-SEM model
Promoting enterprises to accelerate digital transformation is of great significance to enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises,empower the upgrading of traditional industries,generate new forms of business,as well as drive China's digital economy to become better and stronger.From the perspective of enterprises,this paper analyzes the antecedents of enterprises'digital transformation,constructs related indexes based on the text analysis method,proposes a two-factor theoretical model of manager characteristics and dynamic capabilities,and uses the structural equation model based on partial least squares estimation(PLS-SEM).The empirical results show that manager characteristics such as entrepreneurship,digital evangelist and co-ordinator,as well as corporate dynamic capabilities such as sensing,learning,integrating and coordinating,have a significantly positive role in promoting the tendency and output of digi-tal transformation of enterprises.In addition,manager characteristics can significantly improve the level of enterprises'dynamic capabilities,and the effect of manager characteristics on enter-prises'dynamic capabilities and digital transformation is moderated by managers'perception of policy uncertainty.In addition,the above effects are heterogeneous between state-owned and private enterprises,enterprises in the eastern,central and western regions,as well as enterprises in provincial and non-provincial capitals.This paper fills the research gap on the antecedents of digital transformation,and provide a feasible practical path for enterprises to cultivate managers in the digital era and improve their dynamic capabilities.
digital transformationmanager characteristicsdynamic capabilitiesstructural equation model based on partial least squares