The Impact of Digital Platform Capability on Firms' Open Innovation Performance under the Perspective of Resource Dependence

Abstract

Abstract: In the era of digital economy, open innovation has become an inevitable choice for the future development of enterprises. However, the vigorous development of digital technology has also brought new challenges such as platform incompatibility and technical risks. Digital platform capabilities play a unique role in addressing these new challenges and adapting to the highly dynamic, complex and diverse innovation landscape in the open innovation ecosystem. Based on the resource dependence theory, this study uses 430 enterprise data as research samples and applies hierarchical regression analysis, Bootstrap and fsQCA methods to empirically test the impact of digital platform capabilities, innovation partnerships and knowledge transfer quality on the open innovation performance of enterprises, and considers the moderating effect of knowledge power. The results show that digital platform capabilities positively affect the open innovation performance of enterprises. Innovation partnerships and knowledge transfer quality play a chain mediating role between digital platform capabilities and the open innovation performance of enterprises in sequence. Knowledge power moderates the chain mediating effect of innovation partnerships and knowledge transfer quality between digital platform capabilities and open innovation performance by strengthening digital platforms' ability to reconfigure. In addition, there are five different types of configurations that can achieve high open innovation performance for enterprises, while low open innovation performance only corresponds to one type of configuration result. The research conclusions not only conform to the cross-boundary research trend of the resource dependence theory, revealing the mechanism black box and boundary effect of digital platform capabilities on open innovation performance, but also provide new management ideas for enterprises to improve their open innovation performance.

Key words: digital platform capabilities, innovation partnerships, knowledge transfer quality, open innovation performance, knowledge power

Ge Yuanqin, Zhang Wen, Ouyang Taohua, Zhao Ruitong, Sun Xiaomeng. The Impact of Digital Platform Capability on Firms' Open Innovation Performance under the Perspective of Resource Dependence[J]. Management Review, 2026, 38(1): 104-119.

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