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This study aims to investigate how the strategic motivation for digital transformation (DT) drives the firms\u2019 choice of inbound open innovation (IOI) strategies, focusing on the breadth and depth of external search. Drawing on firm-level data from the 2022 Korea Innovation Survey (KIS), we find that DT decreases search breadth while increasing search depth. Moreover, partner diversity intensifies the negative effect of DT on search breadth, whereas technological uncertainty amplifies the positive effect of DT on search depth. 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