【期刊追踪】IEEE TEM 2026年第73卷精选论文（二）

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1.合作伙伴选择与探索式创新提升路径：发明人合作应求同还是存异？

2.数字驱动的可持续发展：数字化在新兴经济体环境违规行为治理中的作用

3.拓展企业创新边界：供应商突破性绿色创新与数字化的作用

4.数字技术部署是否促进环境绩效？来自中国的证据

5.推进环境可持续性：可持续供应链管理中不同绿色绩效水平下中小企业绿色创新路径探索

6.智能制造能力对制造企业商业模式创新的影响

7.绩效反馈差距与数字创新的非线性关系：IT专业知识的调节作用

8.供应链伙伴参与的输入型创新：外向运营信息共享、IT渠道多样性与内部研发能力的影响

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标题：Collaborator Selection and Paths to Enhance Exploratory Innovation: Should Inventor Collaboration Seek Common Ground or Preserve Differences?

作者：Chang, Ke-Chiun; Sun, Xiaoran; Xiong, Xinyi; Zhang, Shuyu; Lai, Yen-Chun

DOI：10.1109/TEM.2026.3710342

摘要：We investigate why inventors choose specific collaborators and how different collaboration patterns shape the relationship between network stability and exploratory innovation in interdisciplinary contexts. Using nanoenergy patents (1998-2021) from the Derwent World Patent Index, we find that collaboration network stability hinders exploratory innovation, and this effect is moderated by assortativity. We classify collaborations into two types based on inventors' assortativity and network location: high assortativity collaboration, where core (peripheral) inventors work with others in similar locations, and low assortativity collaboration, where inventors collaborate across different network locations. We further examine how these collaborations influence the impact mechanism, challenging the conventional assumption of core-core collaboration. Robustness tests, including narrowed sample windows and alternative variable measures, confirm the consistency of results. Our findings provide nuanced insights into how partner selection and collaboration structures affect exploratory innovation, offering practical guidance for managers seeking to design effective collaboration strategies in technology-driven and interdisciplinary organizations.

中文要点：

本文探讨了发明人为何选择特定合作伙伴，以及不同合作模式如何影响合作网络稳定性与探索式创新之间的关系。基于Derwent World Patent Index数据库中1998—2021年的纳米能源领域专利数据，研究发现，合作网络稳定性会抑制探索式创新，且这一影响受到同配性的调节作用。根据发明人的同配性特征和网络位置，本文将合作模式划分为两类：高同配性合作，即处于核心位置（或边缘位置）的发明人与网络位置相似的其他发明人开展合作；低同配性合作，即发明人与网络位置不同的其他发明人开展跨位置合作。进一步研究发现，不同合作模式会影响合作网络稳定性作用于探索式创新的内在机制，研究结果挑战了传统上认为核心—核心合作模式更有利于创新的观点。通过缩小样本时间窗口以及采用替代变量测量等稳健性检验，研究结论得到进一步验证。研究发现深化了对合作伙伴选择和合作结构如何影响探索式创新的理解，并为技术驱动型和跨学科组织中的管理者设计有效合作策略提供了实践指导。

标题：Digital-Driven Sustainability: The Role of Digitalization in Mitigating Environmental Misconduct in Emerging Economies

作者：Ali, Adnan; Yang, Qian; Jiang, Xu; Fey, Carl F.; Ali, Afzaal

DOI：10.1109/TEM.2025.3647495

摘要：Despite increasing scholarly interest in digitalization for enhancing corporate performance and sustainability, theoretical and empirical research on its potential to deter firms' environmental misconduct remains limited. To address this gap, in this article, we employ dynamic capability theory to examine the impact of digitalization on reducing environmental misconduct, along with the moderating effects of returnee directors and market competition. Leveraging a longitudinal dataset of 4234 Chinese-listed firms (2009-2022), we reveal a robust negative association between digitalization and environmental misconduct. In addition, returnee directors and intense market competition amplify this deterrence effect, underscoring the interplay between technological capabilities and institutional governance. The findings remain robust across various alternative measures and endogeneity tests, including the Heckman two-stage model, propensity score matching, and a two-year lagged approach. Overall, this study extends digitalization and corporate governance literature in the environmental management context by offering fresh insights into the relationship between digitalization and environmental misconduct in emerging economies.

中文要点：

尽管学术界日益关注数字化在提升企业绩效和可持续发展中的作用，但关于数字化是否能够抑制企业环境违规行为的理论和实证研究仍较为有限。为弥补这一研究空白，本文基于动态能力理论，考察数字化对减少企业环境违规行为的影响，以及海外经历董事和市场竞争在这一关系中的调节作用。利用2009—2022年中国上市公司4234家企业的纵向数据，研究发现，数字化与企业环境违规行为之间存在显著的负向关系，即数字化能够有效降低企业环境违规行为。此外，海外经历董事和激烈的市场竞争会进一步强化数字化对环境违规行为的抑制作用，体现了技术能力与制度治理之间的交互作用。通过采用多种替代变量测量方式和内生性检验方法，包括Heckman两阶段模型、倾向得分匹配法以及滞后两期处理方法，研究结果均保持稳健。总体而言，本文在环境管理情境下拓展了数字化与公司治理领域的相关研究，通过揭示新兴经济体中数字化与企业环境违规行为之间的关系，为理解数字技术如何促进企业环境责任履行提供了新的理论洞见。

标题：Expanding Firms' Innovation Boundaries: The Role of Suppliers' Breakthrough Green Innovation and Digitalization

作者：Zhao, Mingming; Wu, Fuxiang; Xu, Xia; Wang, Wei

DOI：10.1109/TEM.2026.3706493

摘要：Amid the urgent need for a global sustainability transition, overcoming path dependence and expanding firms' innovation boundaries have become central challenges in advancing the green economy. This study examines whether suppliers' breakthrough green innovation can expand downstream firms' innovation boundaries through supply chain relationships and how digitalization shapes this process. Using data on Chinese A-share listed firms from 2000 to 2020, we examine the relationship between suppliers' breakthrough green innovation and downstream firms' innovation boundary expansion, as well as the moderating role of digitalization. The findings indicate that suppliers' breakthrough green innovation significantly expands downstream firms' innovation boundaries, and that this result remains robust after a series of endogeneity checks and robustness tests. Mechanism analysis indicates that this effect operates mainly through two market-based forces: pricing traction and cost pressure. Further results reveal that digitalization positively moderates this impact. This study provides new evidence on the supply chain transmission of breakthrough green innovation and highlights the critical role of digitalization, offering practical implications for engineering managers and policymakers seeking to develop digitally empowered green supply chain governance.

中文要点：在全球可持续发展转型迫切推进的背景下，克服路径依赖并拓展企业创新边界，已成为推动绿色经济发展的核心挑战。本研究探讨了供应商突破性绿色创新是否能够通过供应链关系拓展下游企业的创新边界，以及数字化在这一过程中发挥的作用。基于2000—2020年中国A股上市公司的数据，本文考察了供应商突破性绿色创新与下游企业创新边界扩展之间的关系，并分析了数字化的调节作用。研究发现，供应商突破性绿色创新能够显著拓展下游企业的创新边界，且这一结论在一系列内生性检验和稳健性检验后仍然成立。机制分析表明，该影响主要通过两种市场驱动机制实现：价格牵引机制和成本压力机制。进一步研究发现，数字化能够正向调节供应商突破性绿色创新对下游企业创新边界扩展的影响，即企业数字化水平越高，供应商突破性绿色创新向下游企业创新边界扩展的促进作用越强。本文为理解突破性绿色创新在供应链中的传递机制提供了新的经验证据，并强调了数字化的重要作用，为工程管理者和政策制定者构建数字赋能的绿色供应链治理体系提供了实践启示。

标题：Does Digital Technologies Deployment Promote Environmental Performance? Evidence From China

作者：Zhu, Minghao; Liang, Chen; Lee, Peter K. C.; Yeung, Andy C. L.; Zhou, Honggeng

DOI：10.1109/TEM.2025.3647213

摘要：In the face of escalating environmental challenges and growing regulatory and stakeholder pressures, improving firms' environmental performance has become an essential strategic objective. Digital technologies (DTs) are increasingly viewed as transformative tools that can support firms in achieving sustainability goals. However, despite growing interest, existing empirical evidence on the impact of DTs deployment on environmental performance remains fragmented and inconclusive. Moreover, limited empirical research has examined how DTs interact with human-centered production systems, such as lean management, to shape environmental outcomes. Addressing these gaps, this study draws on the natural-resource-based view to investigate whether and how DTs deployment enhances firms' environmental performance, and how this relationship is moderated by lean production and environmental leadership. Using longitudinal data from publicly listed firms in China, our analysis reveals that DTs deployment has a significant positive effect on environmental performance, and this effect is amplified in firms exhibiting higher levels of lean production and environmental leadership. These findings remain robust across various estimation strategies, including alternative variable specifications, instrumental variable methods, Heckman two-step correction, and a quasi-natural experiment. By providing large-scale empirical evidence on the environmental implications of digital transformation and its interaction with lean practices, this study contributes to the emerging literature on Industry 4.0 and sustainable operations, offering actionable insights for managers and policymakers committed to green transition.

中文要点：面对日益严峻的环境挑战以及不断增强的监管要求和利益相关者压力，提升企业环境绩效已成为企业战略管理中的重要目标。数字技术正日益被视为推动企业实现可持续发展目标的重要变革性工具。然而，尽管相关研究兴趣不断增加，现有关于数字技术部署对企业环境绩效影响的实证证据仍较为分散且尚未形成一致结论。此外，关于数字技术如何与精益管理等以人为中心的生产体系相互作用，并共同影响环境绩效结果的实证研究仍较为有限。为弥补上述研究不足，本文基于自然资源基础观，探讨数字技术部署是否以及如何提升企业环境绩效，并进一步考察精益生产和环境领导力在这一关系中的调节作用。基于中国上市公司的纵向数据，本文研究发现，数字技术部署能够显著提升企业环境绩效；同时，在精益生产水平较高以及环境领导力较强的企业中，这一促进作用更加显著。上述研究结论在多种估计方法下均保持稳健，包括替代变量测量、工具变量方法、Heckman两阶段修正以及准自然实验等。通过提供大规模企业层面的经验证据，本文揭示了数字化转型对环境绩效的影响机制，以及数字技术与精益管理实践之间的协同作用，为工业4.0和可持续运营领域的研究提供了新的理论贡献。同时，本文为致力于绿色转型的企业管理者和政策制定者提供了实践启示，指出企业不仅需要推进数字技术应用，还应结合精益管理能力和环境领导力，以更有效地实现数字赋能的可持续发展目标。

标题：Advancing Environmental Sustainability: Exploring Pathways of SMEs' Green Innovation in Different Green Performance Levels Within Sustainable Supply Chain Management

作者：Zhou, Min; Govindan, Kannan

DOI：10.1109/TEM.2026.3701029

摘要：Existing literature on small and medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs) green innovation within sustainable supply chains often assumes a uniform adoption path, overlooking the critical role of green performance heterogeneity. This study addresses this gap by investigating how green performance levels fundamentally alter the configurational pathways to SMEs' green innovation. Grounded in a context-specific technology-organization-environment framework-integrating green technology bricolage, top management's green cognition, and network embeddedness, we triangulate data from 263 Chinese SMEs using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis and necessary condition analysis, supported by extensive robustness checks to ensure a high level of research rigor. The results reveal causal asymmetry and distinct innovation logics. For high-green performance SMEs, green innovation is primarily driven by the synergy of green technology bricolage and network embeddedness, often without high managerial cognition. Conversely, low-green performance SMEs necessitate high top management's green cognition and network embeddedness to overcome green innovation inertia. By demonstrating that SMEs' green innovation pathways are contingent on past green performance, this study resolves fragmentation in the literature and offers tailored guidance for fostering sustainability in diverse SME contexts.

中文要点：现有关于可持续供应链情境下中小企业绿色创新的研究，往往假设企业存在一致的创新采纳路径，而忽视了绿色绩效异质性所发挥的关键作用。为弥补这一不足，本文探讨不同绿色绩效水平如何从根本上改变中小企业实现绿色创新的组态路径。基于情境化的技术—组织—环境框架，本文整合绿色技术拼凑、高层管理者绿色认知以及网络嵌入性三个关键因素，利用来自263家中国中小企业的数据，采用模糊集定性比较分析和必要条件分析方法进行研究，并通过多项稳健性检验确保研究结论的可靠性。研究结果揭示了绿色创新形成过程中的因果非对称性以及不同创新逻辑。对于高绿色绩效中小企业而言，绿色创新主要由绿色技术拼凑与网络嵌入性的协同作用驱动，即使企业不具备较高水平的管理者绿色认知，也能够实现较高水平的绿色创新。相反，对于低绿色绩效中小企业而言，则需要较高水平的高层管理者绿色认知和网络嵌入性，以克服绿色创新惰性并推动绿色转型。通过证明中小企业绿色创新路径取决于其既有绿色绩效水平，本文解决了现有研究中关于绿色创新驱动因素解释碎片化的问题，并为不同类型中小企业情境下促进可持续发展提供了针对性的管理指导。

标题：The Impact of Smart Manufacturing Capabilities on Business Model Innovation in Manufacturing Enterprises

作者：Geng, Tongtong; Du, Yueping; Lan, Jinghong; Qu, Jiangyue; Jiang, Yong

DOI：10.1109/TEM.2026.3658192

摘要：With the rapid growth of the global economy and ongoing technological advancements, smart manufacturing has become a vital force driving industrial transformation. This study investigates how smart manufacturing capability influences business model innovation (BMI) in manufacturing enterprises. It further examines the mediating role of new productive forces and the moderating effect of patient capital in this relationship. Despite the significance of smart manufacturing, existing research offers limited insight into its impact on BMI. To address this gap, this study collected data from manufacturing firms across various industries through a questionnaire survey. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling and hierarchical regression analysis. The results show that smart manufacturing capability significantly promotes BMI. This indicates that advancements in smart manufacturing can drive innovation by optimizing production processes, improving resource efficiency, and enhancing market responsiveness. Moreover, new productive forces serve as a key mediator in this relationship, suggesting that enhanced smart manufacturing capabilities improve firms' production efficiency and innovation capacity, thereby facilitating business model transformation. Patient capital also plays a significant moderating role, demonstrating that long-term resource investment and strategic persistence amplify the positive effects of smart manufacturing on innovation. To ensure the rigor of the study, four robustness checks were conducted: substitute variable tests, subsample analyses, lag effect tests, and multicollinearity diagnostics. All results confirmed the stability of the core conclusions. This study provides a new theoretical perspective on the relationship between smart manufacturing and BMI. It also offers empirical support for research on technology enablement in engineering management and provides practical guidance for the digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises.

中文要点：随着全球经济的快速增长和技术持续进步，智能制造已成为推动产业转型的重要力量。本文研究智能制造能力如何影响制造企业商业模式创新（BMI），并进一步探讨新质生产力在这一关系中的中介作用以及耐心资本的调节作用。尽管智能制造具有重要意义，现有研究对于其如何影响商业模式创新仍缺乏充分认识。为弥补这一研究空缺，本文通过问卷调查收集了来自不同行业制造企业的数据，并采用结构方程模型和层级回归分析方法进行实证检验。研究结果表明，智能制造能力能够显著促进商业模式创新。这说明，智能制造水平的提升能够通过优化生产流程、提高资源配置效率以及增强市场响应能力推动企业创新。此外，新质生产力在智能制造能力与商业模式创新之间发挥关键中介作用，表明智能制造能力的增强能够提升企业生产效率和创新能力，进而促进商业模式转型。同时，耐心资本在二者关系中发挥显著调节作用，表明长期资源投入和战略持续性能够强化智能制造对创新的积极影响。为确保研究结论的可靠性，本文进行了四项稳健性检验，包括替代变量检验、子样本分析、滞后效应检验以及多重共线性诊断。所有检验结果均验证了核心结论的稳定性。本文为理解智能制造与商业模式创新之间的关系提供了新的理论视角，同时为工程管理领域技术赋能研究提供了实证支持，并为制造企业数字化转型实践提供了管理指导。

标题：Curvilinear Dynamics of Performance Shortfalls and Digital Innovation: The Moderating Role of IT Expertise

作者：Xie, Shengjie; Liu, Xiaowei; Qu, Wen Guang

DOI：10.1109/TEM.2026.3668050

摘要：This study explores the impact of performance feedback on digital innovation. While prior research often focuses on rational capability-based perspectives, we adopt a behavioral strategy lens to examine how performance feedback shapes digital innovation decisions. Using a sample of Chinese manufacturing firms from 2004 to 2021, we find an inverted U-shaped relationship between performance shortfalls and digital innovation, and board and CEO IT expertise flatten the inverted U-shaped curve. These findings are supported by a rigorous empirical design, including extensive potential endogeneity analysis and robustness checks. This study contributes to the literature by bridging behavioral strategy and digital innovation, offering new insights into how performance feedback, moderated by IT leadership, shapes strategic innovation decisions. It also extends the understanding of IT leadership in mitigating cognitive biases and enhancing firms' ability to respond strategically to performance signals in high-risk, long-term digital initiatives.

中文要点：本研究探讨了绩效反馈对数字创新的影响。不同于以往研究主要关注基于理性能力的视角，本文采用行为战略视角，考察绩效反馈如何塑造企业的数字创新决策。基于2004年至2021年中国制造企业样本数据，研究发现，绩效差距与数字创新之间存在倒U型关系，即企业绩效相对于期望水平的偏离程度会影响数字创新投入：适度的绩效差距能够促进数字创新，而过高或过低的绩效差距则会抑制数字创新。此外，董事会和CEO的信息技术专长能够削弱这种倒U型关系，使曲线趋于平缓。上述研究发现通过严谨的实证设计得到支持，包括针对潜在内生性问题的大量分析以及稳健性检验。本文通过连接行为战略理论与数字创新研究，揭示了在IT领导力调节作用下，绩效反馈如何影响企业战略创新决策，为理解企业如何依据绩效信号调整数字创新行为提供了新的洞见。同时，本文进一步拓展了对IT领导力作用的理解，指出IT能力较强的领导者能够缓解企业在决策过程中的认知偏差，并提升企业在面对高风险、长期导向的数字创新项目时，根据绩效信号进行战略响应的能力。

标题：Inbound Innovation With Supply Chain Partners: Effects of Outbound Operation Information Sharing, IT Channel Diversity, and Internal R&D Capability

作者：Liu, Ruihong; Ding, Xiu-Hao

DOI：10.1109/TEM.2025.3637024

摘要：As the locus of value creation increasingly occurs at the interfaces among various parties, firms stress inbound innovation with supply chain partners. Complementing studies that investigate inbound innovation with supply chain partners from network and relationship perspectives, this study concentrates on the focal firms' friendly actions. Employing social exchange theory and media richness theory, this study proposes that outbound operation information sharing and IT channel diversity contribute to the firms' inbound innovation with supply chain partners. Moreover, as outbound operation information sharing, IT channel diversity, and internal R&D capability are key factors at different stages of inbound innovation with supply chain partners, this study also examines their interactive effects on inbound innovation with supply chain partners. Employing the 2012 enterprise surveys data set of China and hierarchical multiple regression, the empirical results support our arguments. Moreover, the results remain consistent throughout robustness analyses and further mechanism analyses. Our findings highlight the importance of firms' friendly actions and their complementary effects with the internal capabilities in enhancing firms' inbound innovation with supply chain partners.

中文要点：随着价值创造越来越多地发生在不同主体之间的交互界面上，企业日益重视与供应链伙伴开展输入型创新。不同于已有研究主要从网络视角和关系视角考察企业与供应链伙伴之间的输入型创新，本研究聚焦于核心企业自身促进外部知识流入的友好性行为。基于社会交换理论和媒体丰富性理论，本文提出，企业的外向运营信息共享以及IT渠道多样性能够促进企业与供应链伙伴之间的输入型创新。此外，由于外向运营信息共享、IT渠道多样性以及内部研发能力分别是企业与供应链伙伴开展输入型创新过程中不同阶段的重要因素，本文进一步考察了三者对企业与供应链伙伴输入型创新的交互影响作用。本文采用中国2012年企业调查数据库，并运用层级多元回归分析方法进行实证检验。研究结果支持本文提出的理论观点。此外，研究结果在一系列稳健性检验和进一步机制分析中均保持一致。研究发现强调了企业主动促进知识交流行为的重要作用，以及这些行为与企业内部能力之间的互补效应对于增强企业与供应链伙伴开展输入型创新的重要意义。