Purpose Manufacturing export upgrading is shifting from scale expansion to a quality-driven stage centered on complex knowledge recombination and the improvement of product technical content. This paper aims to explore whether digital-real industrial technology integration enables firms to access more sophisticated export portfolios, with a view to understanding how the digital economy supports high-quality foreign trade. Design/methodology/approach This paper measures digital-real industrial technology integration using the co-occurrence of digital technology knowledge and industrial technology knowledge within firm patents and examines its effect on firms’ export sophistication. Findings Digital-real industrial technology integration raises firms’ export sophistication. Digital-real industrial technology integration improves export sophistication by promoting external knowledge transactions, strengthening internal digital knowledge stock and facilitating cross-domain knowledge recombination. The effect is more pronounced for state-owned firms, less financially constrained firms, high-tech firms and firms with stronger export bases. Originality/value From the perspective of knowledge integration, this paper shifts the research focus on digitalization and export upgrading toward the impact of the integration of firms’ internal digital technology knowledge and industrial technology knowledge, thereby extending the research boundaries of how digitalization enables export upgrading. Meanwhile, this paper operationalizes abstract knowledge management processes, such as knowledge acquisition, absorption and recombination, into three testable knowledge-interface transmission paths, providing empirical support for how digitalization enables the high-quality development of foreign trade.
Purpose This study aims to explore the impact mechanism of technological anxiety among older employees on knowledge sharing behavior, as well as the roles of job crafting and relational energy and to test the moderating effect of organizational identity. Design/methodology/approach The samples used in the study are mainly from the survey data of older employees in enterprises under the background of China’s digital transformation. A total of 403 valid samples is obtained, including manufacturing, finance, information technology, public services and energy industries, as well as various types of organizations such as state-owned enterprises, private enterprises and foreign-funded enterprises. The samples have good structural distribution and industry representation. The partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) method was used to test the research model. Findings The results of an empirical survey reveal that technological anxiety significantly and negatively affects older employees’ knowledge sharing behavior, while job crafting and relational energy play a sequential mediating role. Moreover, organizational identification moderates the first stage of this chain mediation by buffering the negative impact of technological anxiety on job crafting. Originality/value The findings not only deepen the understanding of older employees’ knowledge sharing behavior in the context of digital transformation, but also expand the application of the job demands-resources framework and socioemotional selectivity theory in the research on technological anxiety among older employees.
Purpose Relative performance gaps (RPGs) between employees and higher-performing coworkers are common in organizations, yet prior research has reported mixed findings regarding their consequences. Drawing on stress cognitive appraisal theory, this study aims to examine the relationship between RPG and knowledge hiding (KH) through two proposed appraisal pathways, hindrance appraisal and challenge appraisal and whether perceived procedural justice (PPJ) moderates these relationships. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through an online survey of 400 employees. Established scales were adapted to the performance-comparison context. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to assess construct distinctiveness, and bootstrapping procedures were used to test the direct, mediating and moderated mediation effects. Findings RPG was positively related to KH. More importantly, RPG showed opposing indirect associations with KH through hindrance and challenge appraisal. Hindrance appraisal was positively related to KH, whereas challenge appraisal was negatively related to KH. In addition, PPJ conditioned these indirect associations by weakening the positive indirect association through hindrance appraisal and strengthening the negative indirect association through challenge appraisal. Originality/value This study contributes to the literature by explaining why RPG may produce divergent knowledge behaviors rather than uniformly positive or negative consequences. It advances an appraisal-based understanding of RPG by clarifying how challenge and hindrance appraisals are associated with divergent knowledge-hiding responses and identifies PPJ as an important contextual condition shaping whether RPG is interpreted as a threat or as an opportunity for growth.
Penelitian ini mengkaji sejauh mana inisiatif Pelatihan dan Pengembangan (Training and Development/T&D) memengaruhi efektivitas Promotional Pricing, dengan dimediasi oleh konstruk Marketing Capability, pada karyawan yang bekerja di perusahaan penyedia layanan internet (Internet Service Provider/ISP) yang berlokasi di wilayah Suciayumajakuning, Indonesia, mencakup Subang, Cirebon, Indramayu, Majalengka, dan Kuningan. Berlandaskan Teori Modal Manusia (Becker, 1993), Teori Kapabilitas Dinamis (Teece et al., 1997), dan Resource-Based View (Barney, 1991), penelitian ini mengeksplorasi bagaimana peningkatan kompetensi karyawan dapat menjadi katalis bagi peningkatan kinerja pemasaran serta adaptabilitas strategi penetapan harga dalam pasar digital yang sangat kompetitif. Dengan menggunakan metode kuantitatif dan Structural Equation Modeling–Partial Least Squares (SEM-PLS), data dikumpulkan secara sistematis dari 150 tenaga pemasaran dan promosi yang bekerja pada perusahaan ISP. Temuan menunjukkan bahwa T&D memberikan pengaruh signifikan terhadap Marketing Capability (β = 0.613, p < 0.001), yang selanjutnya berdampak kuat pada Promotional Pricing (β = 0.582, p < 0.001). Selain itu, ditemukan pula pengaruh langsung T&D terhadap Promotional Pricing yang bersifat moderat namun signifikan secara statistik (β = 0.176, p < 0.05), sedangkan pengaruh tidak langsungnya (β = 0.357) mengonfirmasi peran mediasi Marketing Capability. Hasil ini menegaskan pentingnya investasi strategis dalam sumber daya manusia untuk meningkatkan kelincahan pemasaran dan mengoptimalkan efektivitas penetapan harga dalam industri berbasis jasa. Kata kunci: Pelatihan dan Pengembangan; Kapabilitas Pemasaran; Promotional Pricing; SEM-PLS; Industri ISP.
Integrasi keberlanjutan dalam teori struktur modal merepresentasikan transformasi paradigmatik fundamental namun belum mendapat kajian sistematis dari perspektif filsafat ilmu. Penelitian ini mengeksplorasi transformasi asumsi ontologis, epistemologis, dan aksiologis yang mendasari konsep nilai optimal dalam teori struktur modal. Menggunakan systematic literature review dengan pedoman PRISMA 2020, lima studi berkualitas tinggi periode 2020-2024 dianalisis dari 189 artikel database Scopus. Temuan mengungkapkan tiga transformasi fundamental. Secara ontologis, nilai optimal bertransformasi dari konstruk unidimensional finansial menjadi konstruk multidimensional dinamis yang mengintegrasikan dimensi finansial, lingkungan, dan sosial. Secara epistemologis, framework keberlanjutan mengubah basis pengetahuan melalui ekspansi informasi melampaui metrik finansial dan pergeseran paradigma menuju penciptaan nilai multi-stakeholder. Secara aksiologis, paradigma integrated value creation mendominasi dengan menolak trade-off dikotomis antara return finansial dan dampak keberlanjutan. Kontribusi teoretis terletak pada integrasi perspektif filsafat ilmu ke dalam manajemen keuangan untuk memahami transformasi paradigmatik. Secara praktis, temuan memberikan implikasi bagi perusahaan, investor, dan pembuat kebijakan dalam mengadopsi pendekatan nilai terintegrasi. Penelitian masa depan perlu mengeksplorasi mekanisme transformasi melalui studi kualitatif dan analisis emerging markets.
