Exploring the Roles of Social Networks and Absorptive Capacity in Local Firms’ Strategic Flexibility: An Empirical Investigation of Chinese Firms

IF 1.7 4区 管理学 Q3 MANAGEMENT Science Technology and Society Pub Date : 2023-06-11 DOI:10.1177/09717218231178277
Zhigang Fan, Xuanshun Zhai, Dong Wu
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In an era of VUCA, strategic flexibility may play a greater role for a company to achieve competitive advantage than innovation. Based on an integrated social network and absorptive capacity perspective, this article proposes a conceptual model in which the local firm’s strategic flexibility is affected by its position in global production network and its internal absorptive capacity. Using a sample of 276 local manufacturers located in the Yangtze River Delta, China, the roles of social networks and absorptive capacity in strategic flexibility are identified, and the results indicate that by occupying a central and strong-tie-abundant network position, local firms can gain more resource flexibility; and absorptive capacity possessed by a local firm plays an active role in coordination flexibility.
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社会网络和吸收能力对本土企业战略灵活性的影响——基于中国企业的实证研究
在VUCA时代,战略灵活性可能比创新对企业获得竞争优势的作用更大。本文基于整合社会网络和吸收能力的视角,提出了本地企业战略灵活性受其在全球生产网络中的位置和内部吸收能力影响的概念模型。以长三角地区276家本土制造企业为样本,研究了社会网络和吸收能力对企业战略灵活性的影响,结果表明,占据中心位置和强联系丰富的网络位置,本土企业可以获得更大的资源灵活性;地方企业的吸收能力对协调灵活性起着积极的作用。
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期刊介绍: Science, Technology and Society is an international journal devoted to the study of science and technology in social context. It focuses on the way in which advances in science and technology influence society and vice versa. It is a peer-reviewed journal that takes an interdisciplinary perspective, encouraging analyses whose approaches are drawn from a variety of disciplines such as history, sociology, philosophy, economics, political science and international relations, science policy involving innovation, foresight studies involving science and technology, technology management, environmental studies, energy studies and gender studies. The journal consciously endeavors to combine scholarly perspectives relevant to academic research and policy issues relating to development. Besides research articles the journal encourages research-based country reports, commentaries and book reviews.
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