Influence Mechanism of Data-Driven Dynamic Capability of Foreign Trade SMEs Based on the Perspective of Digital Intelligence Immunity

Xi Zhou, Minya Qi, Yunong Tian () and Peijie Ye ()
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Xi Zhou: Jiyang College, Zhejiang A&F University, Shaoxing 311800, China
Minya Qi: College of Economics and Management, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China
Yunong Tian: CAS Engineering Laboratory for Intelligent Industrial Vision, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Peijie Ye: Jiyang College, Zhejiang A&F University, Shaoxing 311800, China

Sustainability, 2025, vol. 17, issue 15, 1-29

Abstract: Against the backdrop of digital transformation, this study constructs an analytical framework for the influence mechanism of the data-driven dynamic capabilities of foreign trade SMEs from the perspective of digital intelligence immunity, aiming to clarify the complex relationships among influencing factors and multi-combination paths for capability improvement. The research employs the fuzzy AHP-DEMATEL method to quantify the complex influence relationships among factors and uses fsQCA to analyze the configuration paths of high-level data-driven dynamic capabilities. Results show that digital intelligence management and analysis, digital intelligence supervision and early warning, and digital intelligence ecosystem are key drivers of data-driven dynamic capabilities, with digital intelligence talents serving as a guarantee and digital foundation as a foundation. The study identifies the following two core paths for forming high-level capabilities: “management–talent–ecology collaboration” and “early warning–technology–mechanism enhancement.” It concludes that foreign trade SMEs should strengthen digital intelligence management and ecological construction, improve early warning mechanisms, and adopt multi-pronged approaches to build data-driven dynamic capabilities, providing a theoretical basis for their digital transformation and capability upgrading.

Keywords: data-driven dynamic capability; digital intelligence immunity; fsQCA; small- and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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