Digital Leadership, Enterprise Digital Transformation and Ambidextrous Innovation: The adjustment Benefit Based on Explicit and Tacit knowledge spillover
As the digital revolution picks up pace, more and more companies are recognizing the growing significance of digital leadership in driving the dexterity of their innovative endeavors. Utilizing the A-share firm panel data spanning 2011 to 2023, this study constructs a mediating and moderating model, and uses fixed effect regression to systematically analyze the impact path of digital leadership on corporate ambidextrous innovation. The results show that: (1) Digital leadership significantly promotes exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation; (2) Digital shifts partially mediate how digital leadership affects balanced innovation strategies. Explicit knowledge flow can enhance employees' self-efficacy. Tacit knowledge flow stimulates employees ' exploratory spirit and creativity, making them more willing to participate in enterprise innovation. Compared with exploratory innovation, it has a stronger role in promoting exploitative innovation. Finally, three suggestions are put forward : Bolstering Digital Leadership Formation; Advancing Harmonized Growth of Digital Transformation & Ambidextrous Innovation; making full use of knowledge spillover effects.
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