Recently, a co-authored paper by Professor Yu Miaojie, Fellow of the International Economic Association and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Liaoning University, Lecturer Zhong Yongping from the School of Finance and Trade of Liaoning University, and Professor Moon Hee-cheol from Chungnam National University in South Korea has been accepted by Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, an international core journal in the field of management.
Abstract of the Paper
With the support of Industry 4.0 technologies, service enterprises can develop new service products and respond to customer needs more quickly. This study constructs a theoretical framework integrating the four-dimensional elements of "people-technology-resources-environment," with a special focus on the moderating effect of technological diversity. It systematically examines the synergistic evolution mechanism between technology adoption and service innovation among Korean service enterprises in the context of Industry 4.0 transformation. The findings are as follows:
Customer participation and technological resources can directly affect the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies;
Technological compatibility has no significant impact on the adoption of related technologies but can positively promote service innovation;
Technological upgrading pressure plays a key role in both the adoption of related technologies and innovation;
Technological diversity can moderate the path relationships between internal and external elements of enterprises.
This study innovatively constructs a four-dimensional integrated model, providing a new theoretical framework and analytical perspective for academia and service industry practitioners to systematically examine the mechanisms of enterprise-level Industry 4.0 technology adoption and service innovation paths.
Journal Profile
Technology Analysis & Strategic Management is an internationally renowned journal indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), with Professor James Fleck from the University of Edinburgh, UK, serving as its editor-in-chief. The journal focuses on research in science, technology, and innovation strategy. In the 2023-2024 JCR (Journal Citation Reports), it is classified as Q2 in the management field. Its latest impact factor is 2.9, the five-year impact factor is 3.5, and its CiteScore reached 8.0 (2024).
Author Profiles
Yu Miaojie, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Davis, USA. He currently serves as a Deputy to the 14th National People's Congress, a Specially-invited Supervisor of the National Supervisory Commission, a Member of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress, a Member of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress, and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Liaoning University.
He is the first Asian Deputy Editor of the Economic Journal and a Fellow of the International Economic Association (IEA) of the United Nations. He is also a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor (2019), a recipient of the first batch of Young Changjiang Scholars (2015), a winner of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, an Outstanding Young Scientist of Beijing, a Boya Distinguished Professor of Peking University, a member of the Advisory Committee on Economic and Trade Policies of the Ministry of Commerce, a Director of the "China-US Research Think Tank Alliance" of the Ministry of Finance, an Honorary Professor of Irkutsk State University in Russia, and an International Advisory Council Member of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.
He serves as Vice President of the China Society of World Economics, Vice President of the China Society of Quantitative Economics, Vice Chairman of the China Industrial Economics Association, Vice President of the National Association for Hong Kong and Macao Studies, and Vice Chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Federation of Social Sciences. He is a Wong Ting Fong/Sino Land Young Distinguished Scholar and one of the top 1% highly cited economists in global economics and management. He is also the only Chinese scholar to have won the "Royal Economic Society Prize" so far.
He has been appointed as an expert consultant by the United Nations, the Asian Development Bank, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce, the Counselor's Office of the State Council, and many local governments, and was specially invited to deliver a report on China's economic development at the United Nations Headquarters. He enjoys the special government allowance of the State Council.
Professor Yu Miaojie's research focuses on international trade and China's economic development. He has published nearly 200 papers in top-tier and first-class journals at home and abroad, including Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Research Journal, and Management World. He has also published 27 monographs, textbooks, and essay collections in Chinese, English, and German.
He serves as an Associate Editor of the internationally renowned academic journal Review of International Economics, Honorary Editor-in-Chief of International Trade (Ministry of Commerce), Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Liaoning University and Japanese Studies, and Executive Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Chang'an University.
He has won the Outstanding Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education (three times), the Outstanding Achievement Award in Philosophy and Social Sciences of Beijing, the Wu Yuzhang Award for Humanities and Social Sciences Research, the Zhang Peigang Development Economics Award, and the An Zijie International Trade Research Award (five times). His representative work Processing Trade and Enterprise Productivity has won the Liu Shibai Economics Award, the Hu Sheng Youth Academic Research Award, the National Trade Development Research Award, the China Youth Economist Award, and the Liaoning Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Achievement Award.
Zhong Yongping, Lecturer at the School of Finance and Trade, Liaoning University, holds a Ph.D. in Trade from Chungnam National University, South Korea. Her main research fields include digital trade, technological innovation and management. She has published more than 10 papers in international authoritative journals such as Technology in Society, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, and International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, among which 8 papers indexed by SSCI, SCI and EI were published as corresponding author or first author. Her total citations on Google Scholar exceed 1,000. Her paper published in 2021 in Technology in Society, an international core journal in the field of management, was selected as a global top 1% ESI highly cited paper in the "Social Sciences" field.
MOON Hee-Cheol, Professor of International Trade at Chungnam National University, South Korea, whose main research fields include innovation economy, global value chains, and e-commerce. He has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at The Ohio State University, USA, and a Visiting Scholar at Nagoya University, Japan. He is also appointed as a Guest Professor at Vietnam National University of Business, Northwest University, Nanjing Audit University (Honorary Professor), and Jiangsu University.
He has served as President of the Korean Economic and Management Association, President of the Korean Trade Association, as well as Dean of the Graduate School of Business and Dean of the School of Economics and Management at Chungnam National University.
In terms of academic research, he has published more than 10 monographs such as International Marketing and Global Supply Chain, and over 60 papers in SSCI, Scopus and other indexed international journals. He has presided over a number of key projects of the National Research Foundation of Korea and Sino-Korean international cooperation research projects. His research achievements have been selected as ESI top 1% highly cited papers in the "Social Sciences" field, and he was awarded the "Presidential Citation for Diligent Service" by the President of South Korea in 2017.
