Amidst the swiftly changing landscape and the surge of the digital revolution, the matter of digital transformation's impact on firms' innovation performance has sparked intense debates. In a bid to ...facilitate the evolution and advancement of traditional manufacturers towards high-quality development, this paper endeavors to tackle this issue by integrating the Technology, Organization, and Environment (TOE) framework with the Co-evolution Theory. Through an exploration involving 287 China's manufacturers, employing the Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) technique, we strive to unearth avenues for enhancing manufacturers' innovation performance while accounting for variables such as digital transformation, dual innovation, firm size, slack resources, and network embeddedness. Our empirical findings reveal that digital transformation, dual innovation, firm size, slack resources, and network embeddedness are not standalone prerequisites for manufacturers to achieve exceptional innovation performance. Instead, achieving such performance hinges on the dynamic synchronization and collaboration among these factors. This underscores three effective routes to attaining heightened levels of innovation performance in manufacturers—namely, the balanced TOE path, the technology-driven path, and the resource-driven path. Digital transformation emerges as a crucial element in the first two paths. Moreover, manufacturers must diligently assess the adaptability of their degree of digital transformation alongside their capabilities and resources. These findings enrich the scope of the Co-evolution Theory and the TOE framework, elucidate the nonlinear correlation between digital transformation and innovation performance, and offer the manufacturers fresh avenues for augmenting their innovation endeavors.
•We aim to find the ways breaking the varied effects of digital transformation on innovation performance in China's manufacturers.•We build a collaborative analysis scheme including the Co-evolution Theory and the TOE framework.•There are 3 ways to attain high-level innovation performance of manufacturers, i.e., TOE balanced path, technology-driven path, and resource-driven path.•Digital transformation has proven to be a core condition in the TOE balanced path and technology-driven path.•China's manufacturers should not blindly and excessively pursue digitalization to avoid falling into the dilemma of digitalization paradox.
Digital transformation and sustainability are both at the forefront of current supply chain developments. However, the specific mechanisms of how digital transformation and green supply chain ...development interact still need to be clarified, which can help supply chain business operators to enhance supply chain sustainability more effectively. This paper focuses on how the companies’ organization structure and the socio-economic environment interact with digital technologies under the process of green supply chain development. Based on the “Technology–Organization–Environment” (TOE) framework, this paper analyze how digital transformation can drive green supply chain development. To test the TOE theoretical analysis framework, this paper calculates the digital transformation and green supply chain development index at the provincial level in China and conducts an empirical study. The main findings and implications of this paper can be summarized in the following aspects: First, according to the TOE theory, the external environment dimensions, such as the market and policy environments, affect the role of digital technology in promoting GSC development. Second, in the organizational dimensions, labor–capital relations, company size, and ownership factors can all affect the contribution of digital transformation to green supply chains. Third, there are differences in the impact of different types of digitization technologies on GSC development.
Purpose The purpose of the present study was to investigate the position of the toe grip bar at which maximum strength could be exerted during toe grip strength and measurement reproducibility. ...Subjects Twenty-four healthy young men were selected. Methods We measured toe grip strength during the following three positional conditions of the toe grip bar: immediately above the first interphalangeal (IP) joint, front of the IP joint, and back of the IP joint. Results We found that toe-grip strength was significantly higher immediately above the IP joint than at the front and back of the IP joint. Moreover, the intraclass correlation coefficient was good for the three conditions. Conclusion The results suggest that immediately above the IP position is the most suitable toe grip bar position for measuring toe grip strength, as this position allows maximum strength exertion and repeated measurements.
The present study, involving twelve healthy adult females (at the age of 21.3 ± 0.6 years old), was conducted to examine the effects of massage on peripheral circulatory dynamics, including changes ...in the volume of the toe and temperature distribution of the skin of the dorsum manus or dorsal hand, which was measured using thermography. The subjects were asked to perform a control (sitting on a chair with a backrest for 15 minutes) and experimental (receiving a 15-minute massage to the shoulder, lower-back, and lower-thigh areas) task. Following the massage, there was a marked decrease in the mean volume of the toe, with -0.83 ± 0.26 ml/100 ml/min (P<0.05). There were increases in the temperature of the skin both after sitting on the chair and receiving the massage, although they were not significant. These results suggest that the massage affected the peripheral circulatory dynamics, including a reduction of edema in the leg and change in the skin temperature.
We performed anterior transfer of the toe flexors in 5 patients (5 feet) with pes equinovarus. Two cases were due to cerebral palsy and two were due to peroneal palsy and one was caused by drop foot ...resulting from a venomous snake bite (Habu). The follow-up period ranged from 1 year and 6 months to 2 years and 6 months, with an average of 2 years and 2 months. Four feet were judged to achieve good correction, one foot had a slight pes equinos deformity. On walking, all 5 patients were satisfied with their results physically and mentally. This method was found to be effective for drop foot resulting from a venomous snake bite (Habu).
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