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Improving high‐tech enterprises' new product development performance through digital transformation: A configurational analysis based on fuzzy‐set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)

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  • Jingyan Liu
  • Yiyan Yang

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This paper investigates conditional configurations for improving high‐tech enterprises' new product development (NPD) performance under complex environment of digital era in China. The results indicate that digital transformation is neither sufficient nor necessary for high NPD performance but a significant component of those configurations for high NPD performance. Through the fuzzy‐set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) approach, four configurations for high NPD performance and four configurations for non‐high NPD performance are generated from complex nonlinear interactions among five antecedent conditions of NPD performance. Our findings enrich the literature on NPD performance and provide references on enterprises' decision making on digital transformation.

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  • Jingyan Liu & Yiyan Yang, 2023. "Improving high‐tech enterprises' new product development performance through digital transformation: A configurational analysis based on fuzzy‐set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA)," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 44(7), pages 3878-3892, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:mgtdec:v:44:y:2023:i:7:p:3878-3892
    DOI: 10.1002/mde.3926
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