??The external environmental pressure of manufacturing enterprises drives them to implement the service-oriented strategic transformation, which has reached a consensus in academia. But under the strong environmental pressure, how should manufacturing enterprises act to help their strategic transformation? Previous studies have not paid enough attention. By integrating multiple theoretical perspectives, this paper systematically constructs a theoretical model with manufacturing enterprise environmental pressure as the main effect, knowledge intensive service network as the transmission mechanism, and enterprise absorption capacity as the regulating variable. The theoretical model shows that there is a close relationship between the successful transformation of traditional manufacturing enterprises" service strategy under environmental pressure and the construction of enterprises" own ability by embedding knowledge intensive service network to obtain service-oriented strategic transformation resources. That is to say, it plays an important role in the successful strategic transformation by embedding knowledge intensive service network to obtain complementary resources or capabilities to facilitate the strategic transformation. At the same time, in the process of manufacturing enterprises embedding knowledge intensive service network to obtain complementary resources, the absorptive capacity plays a regulatory role in the relationship between the embedding of knowledge intensive service network and the successful transformation of service strategy.