A Configurational Analysis on How Industrial Internet Platforms Empower the Digital Reconstruction Performance of Value Chain in Participatory Manufacturing Enterprises

Abstract

The digital reconstruction of value chain plays an important role in achieving the goal of moving up the value chain in participatory manufacturing enterprises (PMEs). This study aims to investigate the configuration path for the realization of the digital reconstruction performance of value chain in PMEs. Taking 122 PMEs embedded in the Haier COSMOPlat ecosystem as research objects, we change the traditional research perspective and use fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to explore how technology resources, information resources, relationship resources, and digital services provided by industrial internet platform empowerment synergistically affect the digital reconstruction performance of enterprise value chain. This study obtains two groups of high (non-high) performance, namely, product-driven and service-driven; and relationship trapped and information-trapped. The results show that the impact of industrial internet platform empowerment on the digital reconstruction performance of value chain exhibits equifinality across PMEs at different levels and stages of development.

Keywords

participatory manufacturing enterprises (PMEs) / industrial internet platform / empowerment / digital reconstruction performance of value chain / fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)

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