Objetivo: Esta pesquisa analisou a influência da aquisição, da assimilação e da exploração do conhecimento sobre a capacidade de resposta organizacional, dada a moderação do nível tecnológico nas ...empresas manufatureiras mexicanas. Originalidade/valor: Uma contribuição conceitual da capacidade de resposta como compreensão da agilidade organizacional é fundamentalmente necessária para organizações que enfrentam condições de mudança para usar novos conhecimentos para atingir os objetivos da organização, funcionários e acionistas. Trata-se de uma contribuição empírica da capacidade de absorção para fazer as empresas responderem com inovações às mudanças do ambiente e ajudá-las a desenvolver sua capacidade de absorção de modo que possam ser vistas as oportunidades e restrições em seu nível tecnológico dentro de uma empresa. Design/metodologia/abordagem: O estudo quantitativo foi realizado por meio de uma survey com uma amostra de 102 empresas manufatureiras que realizaram alguma atividade de inovação no Estado do México, México. Os dados foram analisados por meio de um modelo de regressão hierárquica. Resultados: Os resultados mostraram que o nível tecnológico apenas moderou a relação entre assimilação de conhecimento e capacidade de resposta organizacional. Além disso, este estudo contribuiu empiricamente para mostrar que as empresas têm a mesma oportunidade de melhorar sua capacidade de absorção e responder às mudanças no ambiente independentemente do seu nível tecnológico. Palavras-chave: aprendizado organizacional, capacidade de absorção, capacidade de resposta, nível tecnológico, inovação Purpose: This research analyzed the influence of the acquisition, assimilation, and exploitation of knowledge on the organizational response capacity, given the moderation of the technological level in Mexican manufacturing companies. Originality/value: A conceptual contribution of response capacity as an understanding of organizational agility is fundamentally necessary for organizations facing changing conditions to use new knowledge to achieve the objectives of the organization, employees, and shareholders. An empirical contribution from the absorptive capacity to make companies respond with innovations to environmental changes and help them develop their absorptive capacity so the opportunities and restrictions in their technological level within a company can be seen. Design/methodology/approach: The quantitative study was conducted through a survey with a sample of 102 manufacturing companies that promoted some innovation activity in the State of Mexico, Mexico. The data were analyzed using a hierarchical regression model. Findings: The results showed that the technological level only moderated the relationship between the assimilation of knowledge and organizational response capacity. Also, this study contributed empirically by showing that companies have the same opportunity to improve their absorptive capacity and respond to changes in the environment regardless of their technological level. Keywords: organizational learning, absorptive capacity, response capacity, technological level, innovation
•Digitalization without servitization capabilities can lead to negative returns, i.e., the digitalization paradox.•Digital servitization explains profiting from digitalization requires servitization ...in manufacturing firms.•Emphasizing value of servitization in driving financial performance from digitalization, a call for digital servitization.•The results also emphasize the need for high investments in digitalization.•Further studies are needed on the complex relationship between digitalization, servitization and company performance.
The present study investigates the effect of the interaction between digitalization and servitization on the financial performance of manufacturing companies. We challenge the simple linear assumption between digitalization and financial performance with a sample of 131 manufacturing firms and hypothesize a nonlinear U-shaped interaction effect between digitalization and servitization on financial performance. From low to moderate levels of digitalization, the interaction effect between digitalization and high servitization on company financial performance is negative and significant. From moderate to high levels of digitalization, the interplay between digitalization and high servitization becomes positive and significant, improving companies’ financial performance. The results demonstrate the need for an effective interplay between digitalization and servitization, the digital servitization. Without this interplay, a manufacturing company may face the paradox of digitalization. For managers of manufacturing companies, the study provides insights into the complex relationship between digitalization and financial performance, emphasizing the value of servitization in driving financial performance from digitalization. Thus, the study demonstrates how manufacturing companies can become data-driven by advancing servitization.
•Impact mechanism of land transport infrastructure is empirically examined.•Global data envelopment analysis and panel Tobit model are used for analysis.•Overall efficiency level of China's ...manufacturing industry is low.•We study the influential variables of energy and environmental efficiency.•Strong heterogeneity features exist between different regions.
The energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions of China's manufacturing industry accounted for 12.8% and 15.5% of the world in 2016, respectively. On the other hand, the construction of land transport infrastructure has become the focal point of the Chinese government recently. However, there is very little literature investigating the influencing mechanism of land transport infrastructure on the energy and environmental efficiency of the sector. Therefore, it is crucial and meaningful to study how the latter is affected by the land transport infrastructure to alleviate global energy and environmental issues. Non-radial directional distance function was used to calculate two indicators measuring energy and carbon dioxide emissions performance in this paper. The panel Tobit model was then applied to focus on factors affecting the performance. The results indicate that land transport infrastructure, economic growth, technological progress, energy prices, industrial structure have significant impacts on the energy and environmental efficiency of China's manufacturing industry. Different from the results at the national level, from a regional perspective, the development of land transport infrastructure in the eastern region plays a negative role in the performance of the manufacturing industry. Finally, some targeted policy recommendations are proposed to improve the policy design of the government.
Replacement of cement with electric arc furnace (EAF) slag at higher volumes causes volumetric expansion; therefore, such blends are not recommended in concrete production. In this study, the effect ...of this slag on the performance and microstructure of mortar samples based on wollastonite (CaSiOsub.3) was examined. The samples were cured in a COsub.2-rich environment, resulting in the formation of non-expansive products, including aragonite, calcite, and traces of tobermorite in the microstructure. The addition of slag above 20% affected the workability and strength developments. However, the formation of pores above 100 nm reduced with increasing slag content to 60%, highlighting the beneficial effect of slag when used in higher volumes. EAF slag contains a higher amount of Fesub.2Osub.3 which limits its disposal at landfills, but its increased use in the production of COsub.2 gas-cured wollastonite concrete can reduce the environmental burdens caused by the Portland cement and steel manufacturing industries.
Main results: The results indicated that investment in R&D is relevant to the firm performance. Nonetheless, the relationship between R&D and firm size showed negative results. In the case of the ...degree of intangible resources, the same was observed, but the interaction between firm size and intangible assets showed positive effects on the firm performance. Finally, other important characteristics were observed, such as firm age and technology intensity, which showed positive influence over the firm performance. Metodologia: Utilizando uma abordagem por meio da funcao da producao e seguindo a teoria da visao baseada em recursos--RBV, investigamos como a P&D interna da empresa e o nivel de ativos intangiveis sao moderados pelo tamanho da empresa. Metodologia: Utilizando un enfoque que utiliza la funcion de produccion y siguiendo la teoria de la vision basada en recursos--RBV, investigamos como la I + D interna de la empresa y el nivel de activos intangibles son moderados por el tamano de la empresa.
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•The impacts of GVC position on GTIE are considered in the context of environmental regulation.•We explore the industries’ heterogeneity impacts of GVC position on GTIE.•The ...moderating effect of environmental regulation expands the impact of GVC position on GTIE.•The GVC position has a double-threshold effect of environmental regulation relationship with GTIE.•The coordination between environmental regulation and GVC position for decision-making.
Under the open economy, whereas the manufacturing industry has realized transformation and upgrading by the embedding global value chain (GVC) division system, the problems of energy consumption and environmental damage caused by the industry have attracted increasing attention from society. In this paper, the industry classification standard of Trade in Value Added (TiVA) database is used to integrate China’s manufacturing industry during 2006–2015. Based on the indicator measurement, corresponding panel data models are constructed to study the impacts of the GVC position on green technology innovation efficiency (GTIE) in the context of environmental regulation. The empirical results show that: (1) The rise of the GVC embedding position significantly promotes the GTIE, and there is industry heterogeneity characterized by pollution intensity and factor density. (2) There is a positive moderating effect and a double threshold effect of environmental regulation on the relationship between the GVC position and the GTIE. The above research findings offer a certain managerial enlightenment for the manufacturing industry of developing countries to guide adjustment of environmental regulation policies, alleviate the pressure on resources and the environment, and even cultivate a new momentum of sustainable economic growth.
In recent years, China has constantly strengthened environmental regulation (ER) to force the manufacturing industry to upgrade. This study theoretically analyzes interaction mechanism of ER on the ...upgrading of manufacturing industry through foreign direct investment (FDI) and technological innovation (TI) and carries out empirical verification by using provincial panel data from 2000 to 2016 in China. The results demonstrate that the current ER intensity in China is unable to directly promote the upgrading of manufacturing industry, while through the interaction effects of FDI and TI do boost the upgrading of the industry. The above mechanisms are also robust even if we take the regional heterogeneity into consideration. Basic education and urbanization are favorable for the upgrading of the manufacturing industry. However, the increase in dependence on foreign trade is not conducive to upgrading manufacturing industry. Chinese government should further strengthen ER and give full play of the interaction mechanism of ER to guide the flow of foreign investment and force enterprises to carry out TI. In the meanwhile, Chinese government also needs to ensure balanced regional development, thus better promoting the upgrading of manufacturing industry.
This study quantifies the effect of servicification on productivity using firm-level data from Indonesian manufacturing industries. The empirical strategy employed involves two procedures. The first ...stage is based on the estimation of productivity from the Cobb-Douglas production function using a semi-parametric method. The second stage involves regressing the derived productivity with servicification, which is proxied by the share of industrial service cost to total input and the share of service revenues to total output. The results show that servification is positively related to productivity. The study also finds evidence of the importance of firm heterogeneity, i.e., foreign ownership and participation in global value chains (GVCs) in boosting productivity.
Globalization of business and competitiveness in manufacturing has forced companies to improve their manufacturing facilities to respond to market requirements. Machine tool evaluation involves an ...essential decision using imprecise and vague information, and plays a major role to improve the productivity and flexibility in manufacturing. The aim of this study is to present an integrated approach for decision-making in machine tool selection. This paper is focused on the integration of a consistent fuzzy AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) and a fuzzy COmplex PRoportional ASsessment (COPRAS) for multi-attribute decision-making in selecting the most suitable machine tool. In this method, the fuzzy linguistic reference relation is integrated into AHP to handle the imprecise and vague information, and to simplify the data collection for the pair-wise comparison matrix of the AHP which determines the weights of attributes. The output of the fuzzy AHP is imported into the fuzzy COPRAS method for ranking alternatives through the closeness coefficient. Presentation of the proposed model application is provided by a numerical example based on the collection of data by questionnaire and from the literature. The results highlight the integration of the improved fuzzy AHP and the fuzzy COPRAS as a precise tool and provide effective multi-attribute decision-making for evaluating the machine tool in the uncertain environment.
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