Abstract In order to explore how small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises(SMEs) rely on digital platform capabilities to improve their digital transformation performance, this study, based on the dynamic capability theory, takes 398 manufacturing SMEs as the research samples, and applies hierarchical regression to explore the influence mechanism of digital platform capabilities on their digital transformation performance, and reveals the chain mediation roles of absorptive capacity and organizational agility in this process. The findings show that the platform integration capability and platform reconfiguration capability of SMEs, as two dimensions of their digital platform capability, both have a significant positive impact on their digital transformation performance; absorptive capacity and organizational agility have a partially mediating effect in the relationship between the platform integration capability, platform reconfiguration capability of SMEs and their digital transformation performance, respectively, and they jointly play the role of chain mediators.
LI Xueling,FAN Meixi,ZHANG Xiang. Research on the Impact of SMEs’ Digital Platform Capabilities on Their Digital Transformation[J]. Chinese Journal of Management, 2024, 21(10): 1445-.
