Digital orientation has attracted significant attention from policymakers and researchers due to its potential to drive innovation success. While prior research has largely examined the impact of digital orientation on specific types of innovation from a static lens, a holistic and dynamic perspective on its relationship with firms’ overall innovation performance remains limited. Drawing on dynamic capabilities theory, this study aims to bridge this gap by developing a moderated mediation model that incorporates the mediating role of digital capabilities and the moderating effect of environmental dynamism in the relationship between digital orientation and firms’ overall innovation performance. Using survey data from 368 Chinese firms, this study employs hierarchical regression analysis and the bootstrap method to test the hypotheses. The results indicate that digital orientation promotes digital capabilities (encompassing digital sensing, digital integrative, and digital transforming capabilities), which in turn facilitates firms’ overall innovation performance. Also, the effect of digital capabilities on innovation performance is moderated by environmental dynamism. This study contributes to the existing literature by offering a holistic and dynamic lens to elucidate the link between digital orientation and innovation performance, while also providing managerial insights for firms seeking to adopt digital orientation to boost innovation success in the evolving digital environments.
Green knowledge management represents a critical strategic resource for firms, enabling the acquisition, integration, and application of environmentally relevant knowledge to support green technological advancement. However, the mechanisms by which green knowledge management fosters green technology innovation remain underexplored. Grounded in the dynamic capabilities theory perspective, this research develops a moderated mediation framework to investigate how green knowledge management, through dynamic capabilities, impacts green technology innovation, particularly considering the moderating effects of green organizational identity and incentive environmental regulation. Using responses collected from 358 enterprises in China, the proposed framework was validated through hierarchical regression analysis, combined with the PROCESS procedure. The empirical findings demonstrate that green knowledge management strengthens firms’ dynamic capabilities, which in turn promote green technology innovation. Specifically, absorptive and transformative capability serve as partial mediators in the relationship between green knowledge management and green technology innovation. Furthermore, green organizational identity strengthens the positive effect of green knowledge management on dynamic capabilities, while incentive environmental regulation enhances the impact of dynamic capabilities on green technology innovation. These findings advance understanding of how green knowledge management promotes firms’ green technological development by activating and leveraging dynamic capabilities, thereby yielding important contributions to theoretical research and managerial practice.
Digital urban–rural sharing of social public resources (SPRs) is important for improving resource allocation efficiency and narrowing urban–rural disparities. This study applies a tripartite evolutionary game framework to analyze the strategic interactions among the government sector, the sharing supply side, and the sharing demand side in the digital urban–rural SPR sharing process. A system dynamics (SD) model is further constructed to simulate the dynamic evolution of the system under different initial conditions and parameter settings. The results show that the system generally evolves along a path of government initiation, demand-side response, and supply-side follow-up. Higher collaborative benefits, lower resource transfer costs, stronger government credibility, and appropriately designed subsidies promote active sharing and accelerate convergence toward a high-sharing stable outcome. In contrast, high transfer costs, weak collaborative incentives, and insufficient regulatory credibility inhibit sharing behavior or delay convergence. In addition, different initial cooperation levels mainly affect the convergence speed and fluctuation pattern of the evolutionary process. This study extends the application of the tripartite evolutionary game framework to the digital urban–rural SPR sharing context and combines it with SD simulation to reveal the system’s dynamic evolution mechanism. The findings provide practical implications for promoting digital urban–rural SPR sharing through moderate subsidies, reduced transfer costs, enhanced regulatory credibility, and strengthened collaborative mechanisms.
As interactions between digital and physical technologies intensify, understanding their implications for corporate green innovation has become increasingly important. Using panel data on Chinese A-share listed firms from 2008 to 2024, this study investigates the relationship between digital–physical technological integration and both the quantity and quality of green innovation while considering potential endogeneity concerns. The empirical evidence shows that firms with a higher degree of digital–physical technological integration tend to generate more green innovation outputs and achieve higher green innovation quality. Additional analyses show that digital–physical technological integration is positively associated with knowledge depth, knowledge breadth, receipt of general government support, and environmental information disclosure quality, providing evidence consistent with the proposed knowledge, resource, and information explanations. Heterogeneity analysis reveals that the relationship is more pronounced for digital product manufacturing and digital technology applications, and among larger, more mature, and less financially constrained firms. At the regional level, the relationship is stronger in regions with more advanced digital infrastructure, stronger intellectual property protection, and a more favourable business environment. This study advances current understanding of the relationship between digitalisation and green innovation and offers implications for designing differentiated innovation policies across firms and regions.