The Impact of Digital Technology on Enterprise Innovation by Knowledge Management Perspective

The application and vigorous development of emerging digital technologies such as cloud computing, big data, internet of things and artificial intelligence mark the arrival of the digital age. Digital technologies can help enterprises acquire and integrate knowledge to improve innovation performance, so the development of digital technology has become a new innovation strategy for enterprises. This study takes Chinese digitalized enterprises as the research object, builds a theoretical model from the perspective of knowledge management, investigates the impact of digital technologies on enterprise innovation performance theoretically and empirically, and explores the mediating mechanism of boundary-spanning search between the two. The results show that digital technologies has a significant positive impact on boundary-spanning search and enterprises innovation performance, boundary-spanning search has a significant positive impact on enterprises innovation performance, while boundary-spanning search plays a mediating role in the relationship between digital technologies and enterprises innovation performance. This study reveals the internal mechanism of the impact of digital technologies on enterprise innovation performance, in order to enrich and expand the research related to digital technologies and innovation, and at the same time provide management enlightenment for guiding the digital transformation and innovation practice of enterprises.