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Table 2

Constructs and hypothesis for the factors that influence Industry 4.0 transformation

Hypothesis	Independent factors	Reference
H1	Company size	Lin et al. (2019), Szász et al. (2021), Schröder (2017), Frank et al. (2019), Büchi et al. (2020), Lichtblau et al. (2015), Zheng et al. (2020), Stentoft et al. (2017, 2019), Horváth and Szabó (2019), Yu and Schweisfurth (2020), Matt and Rauch (2020), Masood and Sonntag (2020)
H2	Technological level of products	Yüksel (2020)
H3	Level of automation	Yu and Schweisfurth (2020), Stentoft et al. (2017)
H4	Level of lean applications	Rossini et al. (2019a, b), Buer et al. (2020), Demirkol and Al-Futaih (2020), Tortorella and Fettermann (2018)
H5	Level of agility/flexibility	Morisse and Prigge (2017), Horvard and Szabó (2019), Matthiae and Richter (2018), Veile et al. (2020)
H6	Level of budget allocation for R&D department	Bielawska (2010), Büchi et al. (2020), Göçer (2013), UNIDO (2018), Yüksel (2020), Zimmerman (2018)

Hypothesis	Independent factors	Reference
H1	Company size	Lin et al. (2019), Szász et al. (2021), Schröder (2017), Frank et al. (2019), Büchi et al. (2020), Lichtblau et al. (2015), Zheng et al. (2020), Stentoft et al. (2017, 2019), Horváth and Szabó (2019), Yu and Schweisfurth (2020), Matt and Rauch (2020), Masood and Sonntag (2020)
H2	Technological level of products	Yüksel (2020)
H3	Level of automation	Yu and Schweisfurth (2020), Stentoft et al. (2017)
H4	Level of lean applications	Rossini et al. (2019a, b), Buer et al. (2020), Demirkol and Al-Futaih (2020), Tortorella and Fettermann (2018)
H5	Level of agility/flexibility	Morisse and Prigge (2017), Horvard and Szabó (2019), Matthiae and Richter (2018), Veile et al. (2020)
H6	Level of budget allocation for R&D department	Bielawska (2010), Büchi et al. (2020), Göçer (2013), UNIDO (2018), Yüksel (2020), Zimmerman (2018)