In the current digital era, manufacturing firms are increasingly pursuing servitization to enhance competitive advantage. Nevertheless, the mechanisms linking digital technology adoption (DTA) to servitization remain underexplored. Drawing on the dynamic capabilities perspective (DCP) and ecosystem perspective, this study develops a conceptual model to examine how DTA is associated with servitization through knowledge coupling and under what conditions this relationship is amplified or constrained. Utilizing data from 925 listed Chinese manufacturing firms over the 2010-2024 period, we employ a two-way fixed effects model to show that DTA is positively associated with servitization, with knowledge coupling serving as a critical mediating pathway. Furthermore, we identify that collaborative network cohesion plays an inverted U-shaped moderating role on the DTA-knowledge coupling relationship, highlighting the importance of an optimally structured ecosystem for effective knowledge integration. These findings advance theoretical understanding of digital-enabled servitization and provide actionable insights for managers seeking to leverage digital technologies and ecosystem networks to facilitate service-oriented transformation.

The inherent dual roles of “follower” and “leader” among ecosystem entrepreneurs inevitably introduce challenges in managing conflicting dependent and independent goals. Ecosystem entrepreneurs’ capabilities in conflict goals management directly influence new venture survival and development. This single-case qualitative study explores how ecosystem entrepreneurs develop conflict goals management capabilities through self-regulation, which is not only a unique practical challenge in ecosystem entrepreneurship, but also a cutting-edge topic in current theoretical research. Through research of entrepreneurs in Haier Entrepreneurship Ecosystem, the paper finds: (1) strategic corresponding and mechanism adapting emerge as the two trigger factors enabling ecosystem entrepreneurs to recognize the equilibrium or disequilibrium between conflicting goals; (2) by leveraging self-control, grit, and metacognition, ecosystem entrepreneurs construct decoupling mechanisms for antagonistic goal recognition and coupling mechanisms for synergistic goal recognition; (3) ecosystem entrepreneurs enhance their conflict goals management capabilities by developing both segregative and synergistic management capabilities. Furthermore, this research explores the self-regulation process underlying ecosystem entrepreneurs’ conflict goals management behaviors, including environmental interaction perception, conflict goals analysis, and delineation of goal relationships. Findings provide insights for ecosystem entrepreneurs on improving their conflict goals management capabilities through self-assessment and skill development.

Drawing on emotional contagion theory and language-mediated association theory, this study develops a research model to examine how textual and facial emotions affect charitable crowdfunding performance. We use computer-aided techniques to extract and measure specific textual and facial emotions in pitches. The proposed model is tested via regression analysis with a sample of 1372 campaigns collected from the largest charitable crowdfunding platform in China—Tencent Gongyi. Moreover, we conducted a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to examine the complementarity of textual and facial emotions, which supplements the regression analysis results. Our findings show that both textual and facial emotions can impact funding outcomes. However, the effects of specific emotions vary: some (e.g., textual sadness and facial anger) are positive, some (e.g., textual anger and facial fear) are negative, and others (e.g., textual fear, textual disgust, and facial sadness) are insignificant. Moreover, facial emotions complement textual emotions in their effects on funding outcomes. This research outlines a framework to offer a more detailed and comprehensive understanding of emotions in charitable crowdfunding. It also contributes to existing research by revealing the vital but complex role of emotions in the persuasive process of prosocial behaviors and by uncovering the different cognitive mechanisms underlying the impacts of textual and facial emotions.

Hub-based entrepreneurial ecosystems (HEEs) have become an important venue for entrepreneurship. This study examines how ecosystem-specific resources and capabilities are orchestrated by ecosystem actors (i.e., hub firms and ecosystem entrepreneurs) to support the development of new ventures in the context of HEEs. Using an explorative single case study approach, we uncover nine distinctive resource orchestration subprocesses that are grouped into three aggregate processes that help sustain enduring entrepreneurship in the HEE context. Our findings extend and complement the literature on entrepreneurship and ecosystems by developing a new resource orchestration model and by illustrating how resource orchestration in an HEE facilitates the synergies across ecosystem ventures as well as the synergies between hub firms and ecosystem entrepreneurs in coexploring and coexploiting new opportunities.

The sharing economy has accumulated a great number of experienced users, which makes repurchase behaviors a major concern. This research concentrates on two types of institutional trust, namely, trust in the platform and trust in the community of providers, and their various effects in shaping repurchase intention under different conditions specified by the innate human perception of risks. Drawing upon the privacy calculus model, we identify two types of risk-related perceptions, i.e., information privacy concerns and security concerns, as the primary situational factors for trust to take effect. We then propose a model to illustrate how these two types of trust operate under the boundary conditions specified by information privacy concerns and security concerns. Our findings based on experienced users of sharing accommodation platforms in China suggest that both types of institutional trust can promote repurchase intention, and their effects are moderated by both information privacy concerns and security concerns to varying extents. In doing so, our study contributes to the existing studies by confirming the essential role of institutional trust in driving repurchase behaviors and by adding a new understanding of institutional trust in platform-based businesses such as the sharing economy.

创业生态系统因其资源和机会供给优势已成为新创企业产生与成长的重要场所.在核心企业主导的创业生态系统中(Hub-based Entrepreneurial Ecosystems,HEEs),新创企业与核心企业之间在发展目标上存在天然的冲突与对立.冲突目标管理成为生态系统创业者难以回避的现实难题,也是创业生态系统研究亟待解决的理论难题.创业者认知被认为是其行为方式和行为结果的决定性因素,以此为出发点,根据"认知—行为"研究框架,本文以海尔海创汇为例,采用fsQCA方法从组态视角分析了生态系统创业者的认知要素与冲突目标管理效果之间的关系.研究发现,自控主导型、悖论心态单一驱动型、悖论心态主导型3 个组态可以产生好的冲突目标管理效果,生态系统创业者的自控和悖论心态在冲突目标管理过程中发挥着重要作用.研究结果深化了生态系统创业者认知要素与冲突目标管理之间关系的认知,有助于生态系统创业者通过自我评估和技能学习提升冲突目标管理效果,从而更好地建设与核心企业之间的关系.

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of the innovativeness-related language of crowdfunding pitches on funding outcomes under different boundary conditions specified by two context-relevant signals, entrepreneurial passion and social endorsement. Design/methodology/approach This study develops six hypotheses about the focal impacts of innovativeness-related language (i.e. incremental and radical) and the moderating effects of entrepreneurial passion and social endorsement. The hypotheses are tested with a sample of 1,057 real projects collected from a typical platform with a computer-aided content analysis method. Findings This study finds that pitches containing more incremental innovativeness language can generate more funds and that those containing more radical innovativeness language can lead to less favorable funding outcomes. While incremental innovativeness language interacts with entrepreneurial passion language to positively affect funding outcomes, radical innovativeness language requires social endorsement to diminish its negative effect on funding outcomes. Research limitations/implications This study demonstrates that the content of messages of entrepreneurial narratives does indeed drive funding success in the context of reward-based crowdfunding and confirms the relevance of the consumer perspective of reward-based crowdfunding by using a real dataset. Originality/value This work joins a number of entrepreneurial narrative studies investigating the impacts of the innovativeness-related language of pitches (issue-relevant content) and their interactions with informational signals (i.e. entrepreneurial passion and social endorsement) on funding outcomes in the context of reward-based crowdfunding.

为针对性满足消费者需求,基于目标内容理论和 PLS-SEM,构建实证研究模型,明确消费者使用移动食品配送服务的内在和外在目标.通过SmartPLS分析有效问卷数据并检验假设,探究不同目标内容的影响差异和作用机制.研究结果表明,享乐、便利性、食品多样性和食品品质目标均显著激发消费者使用欲望,环保目标显著抑制使用欲望,健康和性价比目标则无显著影响,使用欲望显著促进消费者实际使用行为.建议配送平台提高服务质量,加强食品质量监督,迎合消费者目标.

The sharing economy has risen rapidly in the past decade. The development of shared accommodation encourages more hotels and guesthouses to attract customers through online accommodation-sharing platforms, which has become a meaningful way to fight against the competition of the traditional hotel industry. In this condition, what the hosts are concerned about most is how to attract customers' attention through the platform display to increase reservations. Based on construal level theory, this paper explores how hosts' information displayed on online accommodation-sharing platforms determines consumers' booking behavior by influencing their psychological distance. We use machine learning methods to mine the raw data and extract the representational factors of psychological distance. Based on the data-driven behavior decision-making approach, we collected valid large-scale fine-grained secondary actual consumption data from Airbnb, the world's leading online accommodation-sharing platform, and scientifically and intelligently processed the data using machine learning methods, then tested the hypotheses using the regression analysis software STATA15. Our findings suggest that both social distance and temporal distance have a negative impact on booking behavior of guests. In detail, subject diversity, perspective taking, and facial attractiveness in the dimension of social distance positively influence guests' booking behavior; instant bookable in the temporal distance dimension positively affects booking behavior, while response time has a negative effect. This study contributes to the literature by empirically examining psychological distance in the booking behavior of guests in shared accommodation through the processing and analysis of actual consumption data. The findings have important practical implications for how shared accommodation service providers and sharing economy platform managers can operate better.

Biomass has the dual benefit of promoting economic expansion and protecting the environment. Sugarcane bagasse, animal manure, and kitchen waste are some of the sources of biomass waste that are abundant in Pakistan. However, achieving renewable energy goals while relying on Pakistani road plans is riddled with difficulties. In contrast, there is a significant research gap in examining the barriers to biomass energy development using the multiple‐criteria decision‐making technique. This study aims to fill a knowledge gap by applying the Pythagorean fuzzy analytic hierarchy process to the problem of how to overcome the barriers to expanding Pakistan's biomass power generation. The results reveal that the political and policies/institutions are the most noteworthy obstacle with a weight of 0.2281 and follow the economics and financial, meteorological, technology and infrastructure, and cultural and behavioural hurdles stand second to fifth places, respectively. In addition, the analyses demonstrate that political instability is the most important sub‐obstacle, possessing a global weight of 0.0471. According to the study's outcome, it is suggested that decision‐makers, stakeholders, and regulatory agencies coordinate their efforts to ensure the availability of appropriate incentives, boost feedstock supply, and offer locals training to speed up the Pakistan biomass industry's presently sluggish growth.

Information on short-term rental platforms plays an important role in consumer purchase behavior. However, information asymmetry between host and guest has been identified as a problem in sharing economy contexts. In this paper, to fill this gap, the authors develop six hypotheses about the focal impacts of self-presentation strategy and the moderating effects of third-party certification. Based on data from Airbnb, the authors first examine how the tactics of self-presentation strategy influence consumer purchase behavior. The results show that different self-presentation tactics affect consumer purchase behavior differently. The authors also found that the third-party certification level weakens the influence of self-presentation strategy interactions on consumer purchase behavior.

Adopting suitable energy policies that consider the existence of main obstacles could make the development of solar energy systems much smoother. Several obstacles have been placed in the way of solar energy development in Pakistan, which has prevented its growth from reaching a satisfactory level. In order to tackle these issues, it is necessary first to recognize the obstacles that stand in the way of implementing solar energy. So, this research aims to find and rank the obstacles to the expansion of solar power in Pakistan using a novel spherical fuzzy analytical hierarchy process. The results revealed that the economic obstacles category (21.46%) ranks highest among major categories. In contrast, the overall global ranking of sub-obstacles showed that budget constraints (4.68%), lack of access to credit/capital (4.52%), political instability (4.51%), high investment risk and operation cost (4.42%), and partnership issues (4.37%) are the more critical five sub-obstacles than the rest of the twenty-one obstacles within different categories. In addition, recommendations are made for the elimination of the obstacles. The current study has policy implications for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners involved in the solar sector in the country. Furthermore, it may help develop strategies for the smooth deployment of solar energy in Pakistan.

针对平台用户粘性不足问题,以外卖平台为背景,基于S-O-R理论构建功利价值、平台依恋和持续使用意图之间的结构方程模型(SEM).根据依恋理论搭建平台依恋,功利价值作为其前因变量,研究功利价值通过平台依恋对外卖平台用户持续使用意图产生作用的影响机制.通过问卷调查实证研究,基于SEM模型及相关工具检验.研究结果表明,功利价值三个层面即服务便利性、配送及时性和价格感知均正向影响平台依恋,平台依恋正向影响持续使用意图.建议平台企业以功利价值为切入点,加强与用户之间的情感联结,使用户产生持续使用意图.

针对消费者依赖即时配送服务平台现象,基于使用与满足理论,构建理论模型探究平台依赖形成原因及其对用户行为的影响机制.结合研究情境,凝练服务满足的四个维度,包括信息质量、选择多样性、服务便利性和配送服务体验.通过问卷调查收集380名平台用户数据,基于结构方程模型,使用Smart PLS软件检验假设.研究结果表明,除服务便利性外,服务满足的其他三个维度均是平台依赖形成的有效前因,平台依赖显著正向影响消费者重复购买意图.建议平台企业以满足消费者需求为战略目标,建立与消费者的依赖关系,提高消费者复购率.

数字化转型已经成为当前很多传统企业的战略选择.然而,已有文献对数字化转型的过程与内在机理缺乏深入研究.借助科技给予与意义建构理论视角,通过对典型企业——双星集团的案例研究,文章对数字化转型的过程与内在机理进行了探索性分析.文章发现传统企业的数字化转型是一个自上而下的过程,包含转型发起、形成共识与转型实现三个阶段.在每一个阶段,由行为主体和数字化技术形成的二元结构是数字化转型给予形成(即阶段性转型认知)的社会基础.文章进一步揭示了支撑企业转型的四种数字转型给予,包括:数字化战略给予、共享的数字化战略给予、数字化业务战略给予与数字化业务战略实现.意义建构是促进转型给予形成的主要机制;意义解构和意义给赋是高层次主体影响低层主体意义建构的主要方式,也是实现过程转换的主要机制.文章打开了数字化转型过程黑箱,对IT驱动的组织转型研究和相关理论进行了有效补充,也为我国传统企业转型与新旧动能转换提供了有益借鉴.

The rapid growth of on-demand services and the increasing competition among platforms make the repurchase behaviors of experienced clients an urgent and important problem. Drawing on the cognition-affection-connation framework, this study proposes a research model to examine how clients' repurchase intentions are shaped in the context of on-demand services by focusing on the service client-platform relationship. The model was tested with a sample of 519 respondents collected from experienced clients of the largest on-demand service platform in China, Meituan, via the questionnaire survey method. Our findings suggest that the three value constructs (i.e., cognition) derived from the service consuming experience, including utilitarian value, hedonic value and interactivity value, significantly contribute to the establishment of platform attachment (i.e., affection), which in turn drives repurchase intention (i.e., conation) toward on-demand services. This research outlines an attachment-based framework to gain an insightful understanding of client loyalty behaviors in the on-demand service context. It also makes contributions to the existing research by extending the cognition-affection-connation framework to online contexts and by illustrating the essential role of platform attachment derived from the client-platform relationship in driving clients' repurchase behaviors in platform-based businesses.

Sharing accommodation (SA) has gained rapid growth in the last decade. To offer better service to users, the platform and hosts have to extensively collect and utilize confidential user data and information. With the extensive collection and utilization of personal user information, there are potential problems of data abuse and leakage, which makes users' privacy concerns an important and unavoidable issue for repeated purchases and the sustainable development of SA. Privacy concerns are thus not only an important antecedent of purchase behaviors, but also an important conditional variable that will have impacts on the formation of trust and user purchase behaviors. However, the moderating effect of privacy concerns on trust formation has rarely been examined in the SA literature. To fill this knowledge gap, drawing on trust transfer theory and trust literature, this study builds a theoretical model to examine the relationships of three types of institution-based trust (i.e., trust in the SA platform, trust in the user community, and trust in the host community) and their effects on continuous use intention. Moreover, this study explores the moderating effect of privacy concerns on institution-based trust transfer in the context of SA. We then collected data through a questionnaire survey from experienced users of two reputable SA platforms in China, and empirically tested the research model with 470 valid responses. The results show that trust in the user community positively affects trust in the SA platform and trust in the host community; trust in the SA platform and trust in the host community positively affect users' continuous use intention. Meanwhile, privacy concerns negatively moderate the relationship between trust in the user community and trust in the SA platform, as well as the relationship between trust in the user community and trust in the host community. The findings confirm the moderating role of privacy concerns in the trust transfer process, complementing existing research on trust transfer theory and trust.

Ideal energy policies based on the identification of main obstacles might indorse the growth of renewable energy. In light of the importance of promoting entrepreneurship in renewable energy resources, the current study examined the barriers to develop renewable energy entrepreneurship in Pakistan. As a result, the current study proposes a systematic approach for prioritizing hurdles to entrepreneurship based on their relevance. The research was split into two parts. To begin, a literature survey and interviews with experts were used to identify potential obstacles. Second, the Pythagorean fuzzy analytical hierarchical process (PF-AHP) approach was hired to finalize and categorize the challenges. Twelve barriers were finalized, and they were then divided into four categories. Finally, PF-AHP was used to determine barrier weights and ranks. The final results showed that the legal and regulatory framework obstacle category is the most essential among the main categories, while the overall ranking of obstacles revealed that the lack of policy is more vital than the other twelve sub-barriers in various groups.

从创业叙事视角,揭示了科技类众筹中创新性线索和创业激情对融资绩效的作用机制,探究了创新性线索对融资绩效的直接影响,以及创业激情对创新性和融资绩效关系的调节作用.通过文本分析的方法,利用京东众筹中实际的科技类项目对该模型进行了实证检验.实证结果显示:渐进式创新线索正向影响融资绩效,激进式创新线索负向影响融资绩效;发起人的创业激情增强了渐进式创新线索对融资绩效的正向作用,但对激进式创新线索与融资绩效之间的关系无显著调节作用.

如何解决创业平台演化过程中参与各方之间不断变化的目标与利益冲突,既是平台治理研究的前沿课题,也是推进我国制造业平台化转型的实践难题.本文通过对海尔"平台+小微"创业生态演化的纵向案例研究,构建基于边界资源调优理论的平台动态治理模型,提出针对不同阶段治理矛盾的治理机制,实现创业平台的治理目标.具体而言,在创业平台演化3个阶段,核心企业和参与企业通过涌现出的单核、分布式和跨域三类边界资源进行调优,利用单边单核(单边开放范围/权限)、多边分布式(选择性开放或收缩范围/权限)和无边界跨域(超越开放或收缩范围/权限)3种调优机制,解决平台的生成性匮乏、均衡性维持和跨领域协调的治理问题,实现平台生成性多样发展、控制性多元发展和开放性共生发展的目标.本文从多方参与的动态视角探讨创业平台治理问题,推进调优理论向平台、生态等新兴复杂情境深化,拓展边界资源的类型,为管理实践提供平台演化过程中核心企业和参与企业实现目标协同的一种解决方案.