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This paper conducts a theoretical study on capability issues in the intelligent transformation of offshore ranches in the China Sea, proposing that capability is the core mediating variable connecting digital technology and transformation performance. The intelligent transformation of Marine ranches is not a process in which digital technology simply replaces human experience, but rather a process in which organizations continuously generate, reconstruct and optimize capabilities around technological opportunities. The main conclusions of this paper include: First, capability generation is driven by a combination of technological opportunities, policy signals and market demands, and is gradually formed through organizational cognitive renewal, resource connection and learning trial and error; Second, capability reconfiguration occurs in the three stages of digital technology adoption, absorption, and institutionalization, corresponding respectively to three key leaps: data access, process reengineering, and organizational embedding; Third, capability optimization manifests as the coupled improvement of production and operation capabilities, organizational synergy capabilities, innovation diffusion capabilities, and ecological governance capabilities, and the ultimate result is the continuous release of multi-dimensional performance in the economic, social, and ecological aspects.
The theoretical contribution of this paper lies in: First, it deepens the process explanation of the intelligent transformation of Marine ranches from the perspective of capabilities, breaking through the limitation of understanding digital transformation as mere technology diffusion; Second, it constructs an overall framework of external drive, capability generation, capability reconfiguration, capability optimization and performance formation, integrating dynamic capability, absorptive capacity, resource orchestration and digital technology capability research into a unified logic; Third, it emphasizes the particularity of giving equal weight to ecological and economic value in the Marine ranch scenario, providing a contextualized supplement to the research on digitalization of natural resource-based industries.
Of course, this paper is a theoretical analysis and has not yet quantitatively tested each proposition. Future research could build on this to construct measurement dimensions, conduct questionnaire surveys, configuration analyses, and multi-stage empirical studies to test the heterogeneous effects of different capability elements in different sea area types, organizational types, and development stages.
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