Digitalisation and complementary integration: a case study of a Chinese real estate company

doi:10.1504/IJTM.2025.143595

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	Digitalisation and complementary integration: a case study of a Chinese real estate company
	Chang, Xin-zhi 1; Liu, Xie-lin1,2
	2025
发表期刊	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT (IF:1.4[JCR-2023],1.7[5-Year])
ISSN	0267-5730
EISSN	1741-5276
卷号	97 期号:2-3 页码:410-439
DOI	10.1504/IJTM.2025.143595
摘要	In the digital age, incumbents are seeking new strategies to address their lack of digital capabilities and resources. To avoid disruption, complementary integration offers incumbents a mean to explore creative destruction proactively. Complementary integration is organised around dynamic capabilities and resource management, transforming incumbents' identities through implementing complementary activities to achieve value chain integration. However, few empirical studies have explained how complementary integration is achieved. Focusing on the development of construction robots by a Chinese real estate company, this paper uses dynamic capabilities and resource management theories to show how incumbents can achieve complementary integration through digital upgrading. The paper emphasises that the ability to identify complementary industries, seize and bundle complementary resources, and re-configure and leverage complementary capabilities helps to transform traditional incumbents into complementary industry leaders. This process leads to the emergence of complementary integration strategies, which create a new industry and market logic. In addition, the paper emphasises the nuances of complementary integration and cross-boundary disruption in expanding the boundary of firms.
关键词	digitalisation complementary integration incumbents dynamic capabilities construction robots
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收录类别	SCI ; EI ; SSCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China : The Formation Mechanism and Model of Break through Innovation in the High-tech Industry[71932009]
WOS研究方向	Engineering ; Business & Economics ; Operations Research & Management Science
WOS类目	Engineering, Multidisciplinary ; Management ; Operations Research & Management Science
WOS记录号	WOS:001389491500009
出版者	INDERSCIENCE ENTERPRISES LTD
EI入藏号	20250417744450
EI分类号	405 Construction Equipment and Methods ; Surveying ; 912.2 Management
原始文献类型	Journal article (JA)
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	https://kms.shanghaitech.edu.cn/handle/2MSLDSTB/470984
专题	创业与管理学院创业与管理学院_特聘教授组_柳卸林组
通讯作者	Liu, Xie-lin
作者单位	1.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Econ & Management, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 2.ShanghaiTech Univ, Sch Entrepreneurship & Management, Shanghai 201210, Peoples R China
通讯作者单位	创业与管理学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chang, Xin-zhi,Liu, Xie-lin. Digitalisation and complementary integration: a case study of a Chinese real estate company[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT,2025,97(2-3):410-439.
APA	Chang, Xin-zhi,&Liu, Xie-lin.(2025).Digitalisation and complementary integration: a case study of a Chinese real estate company.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT,97(2-3),410-439.
MLA	Chang, Xin-zhi,et al."Digitalisation and complementary integration: a case study of a Chinese real estate company".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT 97.2-3(2025):410-439.