Antecedent configurations toward technology search strategies in digital transformation: The joint impact of performance feedback, organizational slack and TMT regulatory focus

Weiwei Wu and Ruicong Xiao

Technovation, 2025, vol. 144, issue C

Abstract: Previous research on the relationship between technology search strategies and digital transformation remains ambiguous and mixed. Applying recent advances in the fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis, we show that digital transformation is associated with technology search strategies through the interaction of performance feedback, organizational slack, and TMT regulatory focus with a dataset of 318 Chinese-listed firms in the manufacturing industry. We generally reveal digital transformation's significant, multifaceted, and heterogeneous role in technological exploration and exploitation in different decision contexts conducted by performance feedback and organizational slack. On this basis, we generate new insights into the role of TMT regulatory focus underlying the relationship between technology search strategies and digital transformation. Overall, our study reconciles many existing mixed findings by extending digital transformation into the traditional technology search framework, thus contributing to the behavioral theory of firms.

Keywords: Digital transformation; Technology search strategies; Performance feedback; Organizational slack; TMT regulatory focus; fsQCA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103241

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