The Role of Organizational Unlearning in Manufacturing Firms’ Sustainable Digital Innovation: The Mechanism of Strategic Flexibility and Organizational Slack

This study explores the underlying mechanisms of achieving sustainable digital innovation in context manufacturing companies. Building on perspective organizational unlearning, we propose that unlearning could disrupt current routines and positively relate to sustainability innovation, features which are self-referential improvement iterative scalability. conducted a questionnaire survey 274 Chinese companies used SmartPLS 4.0 analyze data. Drawing insights from data analysis results, this discovers organizational-level is able make achievable sustainable. In addition, articulates partial mediation mechanism strategic flexibility slack. The findings unearth utility context, contribute emerging literature by introducing as new theoretical for transformation, offer managerial help leverage proactively release its long-term benefits.