RETRACTED: Much- needed business digital transformation through big data, internet of things and blockchain capabilities: implications for strategic performance in telecommunication sector
Business Process Management Journal
ISSN: 1463-7154
Article publication date: 2 April 2021
Issue publication date: 12 October 2021
Retraction notice
The publishers of Business Process Management Journal wish to retract the article Bhatti, A., Malik, H., Kamal, A.Z., Aamir, A., Alaali, L.A. and Ullah, Z. (2021), “Much- needed business digital transformation through big data, internet of things and blockchain capabilities: implications for strategic performance in telecommunication sector”, Business Process Management Journal, Vol. 27 No. 6, pp. 1854-1873. https://doi.org/10.1108/BPMJ-12-2020-0553
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Abstract
Purpose
In the field of business, digital transformation is the integration of digital technology into all areas of business, from generating to deliver value to customers. This concept is essential for sustainable growth of a company and its overall economy. Based on this fact, this authentic and informative research is conducted whose major aim is to examine the importance of digital transformation within a business through big data, the Internet of things and blockchain-based capabilities for overall strategic performance within the telecom sector in China.
Design/methodology/approach
For that aim, data quality and technology competence are considered as independent variables, strategic performance as dependent variable and big data analytics capabilities, Internet of things capabilities and blockchain capabilities routinization acted as mediators within this paper. In its data collection mechanism, an online survey was conducted in which questionnaires are randomly distributed to the telecom sector's professionals in which only 343 of them gave their valid outcomes. After collecting primary data, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM)–based statistical outcomes have been generated.
Findings
Results indicate that there is a significant relationship between data quality and strategic performance and between technological competence and strategic performance. Also, the big data analytics and Internet of Things capabilities acted as significant mediating role between both independent and dependent variables. But blockchain capabilities routinization is that variable that acts as an insignificant mediator between independent and dependent variables' relationship.
Originality/value
Overall, this study is an informative and attractive source for the Chinese government, its telecom industry, administrative body and related ones to understand the importance of such IT capabilities' implications within their operating activities for their strategic performance management. Also, related field scholars can utilize its reliable data in their research analysis. Its major limitations are (1) lack of qualitative/ mixed method of research and (2) lack of comparative analysis that may impact the acceptability factor of this paper, and this weakness can be overcome by upcoming scholars in their research.
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Citation
Bhatti, A., Malik, H., Kamal, A.Z., Aamir, A., Alaali, L.A. and Ullah, Z. (2021), "RETRACTED: Much- needed business digital transformation through big data, internet of things and blockchain capabilities: implications for strategic performance in telecommunication sector", Business Process Management Journal, Vol. 27 No. 6, pp. 1854-1873. https://doi.org/10.1108/BPMJ-12-2020-0553
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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