How does intelligent manufacturing affects enterprise innovation? The mediating role of organisational learning

ABSTRACT

Yang et al. (2020) find that intelligent manufacturing has asignificant promoting effect on enterprise innovation, but the effect mechanism is still ablack box to be opened. To investigate the role of organisational learning in intelligent manufacturing and enterprise innovation, this study uses the public data of listed enterprises in China’s manufacturing industry to conduct research using continuous time difference-in-differences method. The results show that intelligent manufacturing can promote both innovation input and innovation output of enterprises. Further mechanism research finds that intelligent manufacturing promotes organisational learning by improving organisational learning environment, learner quality and organisational learning investment, and thus promotes enterprise innovation.

KEYWORDS:

• Intelligent manufacturing
• organisational learning
• enterprise innovation
• labour investment efficiency
• knowledge management

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Funding

This work is supported by the Social Science Planning Project of Zhejiang Province (Grant numbers: 22NDQN288YB and 21NDJC023Z), Soft Science Project of Zhejiang Province (Grant numbers: 2020C35025), Scientific Research Fund of Zhejiang Provincial Education Department (Grant numbers: Y202043933, Y202043606 and Y202146891), Project of Wenzhou Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Science (Grant number:20jd37), Scientific Research Project of Human Resources Security Department of Zhejiang Province (Grant numbers: 2020008), Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project of Wenzhou (Grant numbers: 20wsk079 and 21wsk034), Basic Scientific Research Project of Wenzhou (Grant numbers: R2020001 and R20210066).