Big Data Analytics, Firm Size, and Performance
研究了大数据分析如何影响企业创新过程，发现大企业通过流程创新降低成本提升附加值，小企业通过产品创新增加销售额。
Big data analytics (BDA) is one of the most important general-purpose technologies. Despite the increasing pervasiveness of BDA across industries and some preliminary evidence indicating that BDA adoption is positively related to firm productivity, previous studies have not fully investigated how BDA benefits actually materialize. To address this question, we explore the effect of BDA on the innovation process, a key determinant of firm productivity. Our findings indicate that both large and small firms can gain from BDA, yet size is a critical organizational attribute determining the most relevant performance gains captured: BDA benefits for value-added are particularly salient for large firms, whereas benefits for sales are more relevant in small firms. This suggests that the relative propensity to use BDA to decrease costs and enhance efficiency through process innovation vs. to increase sales through product innovation is increasing in firm size. Funding: R. Conti received financial support from the CY initiative. M. Godinho de Matos received the support from FCT – Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology [Grant UID/GES/00407/2020].