数字经济背景下知识链管理与市场环境对高技术企业创新质量的协同影响机制

摘要/Abstract

摘要： 数字变革能有效推动高技术企业技术创新和高质量发展。然而，在数字经济背景下如何优化知识链管理、识别市场环境，从而促进高技术企业创新质量提升仍有待回答。本文基于复杂系统观，结合模糊集定性比较分析法（fsQCA），以409家中国A股上市的高技术企业为研究样本，从组态视角探究了数字经济背景下知识链管理与市场环境对高技术企业创新质量的协同影响机制。研究发现：①单个知识链管理要素或市场环境要素均不构成产生高创新质量的必要条件，但是，加强知识获取和提升知识创造在产生高创新质量上发挥着较普适的作用。②存在四种产生高创新质量的驱动路径，分别为上游知识获取-下游知识创造混合驱动型、上中下游知识链内部协同驱动型、非高市场复杂性下知识整合驱动型、双元市场环境下知识应用外部协同驱动型，其中，上中下游知识链内部协同驱动型最普遍，说明知识链管理各要素的内部协同对创新质量提升具有关键作用；其他路径则探索了不同外部市场环境下多元的知识链管理模式选择。③存在五种导致非高创新质量的抑制路径，它们共同体现了知识创造缺失会导致非高的创新质量。本研究丰富和拓展了知识链管理理论，并为高技术企业在外部不确定性的市场环境下通过优化知识链管理以提升创新质量提供理论依据和实践支撑。

关键词: 数字经济, 知识链管理, 市场环境, 高技术企业, 创新质量

Abstract: Digital transformation can effectively promote technological innovation and high-quality development of high-tech firms. However, under the background of digital economy, how to optimize knowledge chain management and identify market environment to promote the innovation quality of high-tech firms remains to be answered. Based on the complex systems view and combined with fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA), this paper takes 409 Chinese A-share listed high-tech firms as research samples, and explores the mechanism of how knowledge chain management and market environment synergistically influence high-tech firms in the digital economy from the perspective of configuration. The research finds that (1) neither knowledge chain management factor nor market environment alone constitutes the necessary conditions for high (non-high) quality innovation, but strengthening knowledge acquisition and improving knowledge creation play a more universal role in producing high quality innovation. (2) High quality innovation is driven through four paths, namely, knowledge acquired upstream and innovated downstream, internal synergy along the entire knowledge chain, knowledge integration in a market of non-high complexity, and knowledge application external synergy in a dual market environment. Among them, internal synergy along the entire knowledge chain is the most common, indicating that the internal synergy of all elements of knowledge chain management plays a key role in improving innovation quality, with other paths as an alternative attempt to explore multiple knowledge chain management modes in different external market environments. (3) There are five inhibitory paths leading to non-high quality innovation, which collectively show that the lack of knowledge creation will lead to non-high quality innovation. This research enriches and expands the knowledge chain management theory, and provides theoretical basis and practical support for high-tech firms to improve innovation quality through optimal knowledge chain management in the uncertain external market environment.

Key words: digital economy, knowledge chain management, market environment, high-tech firms, innovation auality

苏涛永, 刘姝伶, 吴甲春. 数字经济背景下知识链管理与市场环境对高技术企业创新质量的协同影响机制[J]. 管理评论, 2025, 37(4): 83-97.

Su Taoyong, Liu Shuling, Wu Jiachun. The Mechanism of How Knowledge Chain Management and Market Environment Synergistically Influence High-tech Firms' Innovation Quality in the Digital Economy[J]. Management Review, 2025, 37(4): 83-97.

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