The double-edged role of the digital economy in firm green innovation: micro-evidence from Chinese manufacturing industry

Dou, Qianqian; Gao, Xinwei

doi:10.1007/s11356-022-20435-3

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“…As the largest developing country in the world, China's rapid development has been accompanied by environmental deterioration (Ji and Zhang, 2019;. Manufacturing enterprises, as the main contributors of carbon emissions, are directly in line for China's overall emission reduction target (Ouyang et al, 2019;Zhao et al, 2020;Dou and Gao, 2022). Faced with the relatively crude economic development model of manufacturing enterprises (Ma et al, 2020;, green technology innovation (GTI) as an important way to save energy and reduce emissions (Berrone et al, 2013;Song et al, 2020;Wu et al, 2022) can help manufacturing enterprises obtain many benefits, such as lower energy consumption (Berrone et al, 2013), improved production (Chen et al, 2006;Salvad et al, 2012;Song et al, 2020) and a better social standing (Chang, 2011;Song et al, 2020).…”

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“…It provides a new research perspective for GTI by liberating social productivity, changing the way knowledge is transferred, and reducing transaction costs (Chihiro et al, 2018;He et al, 2021;. Dou and Gao (2022) argued that in areas with a high level of digital economy, cloud computing and big data will drive the transformation of production modes, which will require enterprises to update equipment (Yetis-Larsson et al, 2015;Wang et al, 2022), eliminate traditional production modes (Song et al, 2020;Cao et al, 2021), and achieve a balance between economic and environmental development. Compared with general innovation, sufficient resources are required to support GTI due to its high-risk nature (Cao et al, 2021;Wu et al, 2022).…”

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“…With the aid of digital technology, the digital economy can break the constraints of time and space (He et al, 2021;, guide the sharing and transmission of labor and capital resources, and promote the green total factor growth rate (Song et al, 2020). In addition, it is worth noting that the digital economy is the driving force for the economic structure transformation, which will tend to eliminate "high-pollution, high-energy-consuming" industries and transform them into green industrial factories (Lu et al, 2021;Dou and Gao, 2022). Based on the above analysis, we introduced resource allocation efficiency as a mediating force between the digital economy and GTI.…”

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“…They believed that the development of a digital economy significantly promoted green innovation, but other scholars pointed out that there was a nonlinear relationship between digital economy and green innovation. For example, Dou and Gao (2022) used provincial data as an example to illustrate the double-edged role of the digital economy on green innovation. Dai et al (2022) also argued that with the development of a digital economy in China, its ability to promote green innovation would be stronger.…”

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How does the digital economy promote green technology innovation by manufacturing enterprises? Evidence from China

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With the rapid development of the digital economy and the increasingly severe environmental issues, the role of the digital economy in green innovation has been attracting more attention; however, only a limited amount of research has been done in this area. Therefore, based on matching data at the city and manufacturing enterprise level in China during 2011–2018, this paper attempted to integrate the digital economy (more specifically, the Internet and digital finance) with resource allocation and green technology innovation together in a unified scheme. Our study confirmed that the digital economy could significantly promote green technology innovation by manufacturing enterprises, but that digital finance was the dominant feature. Resource allocation efficiency played a partial mediating role between digital economy and green technology innovation. Furthermore, considering the heterogeneity in enterprise ownership and industrial pollution, the digital economy had a more positive effect on green technology innovation in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and high pollution industries. As for the heterogeneity of region, the Internet significantly contributed to green technology innovation in regions with different levels of development. In the eastern region of China, especially, the influence of digital finance on green technology innovation was more significant. In view of these findings, this study provides important insights for strengthening the integration of the digital economy with green transformation, emphasizing the rationality of resource allocation, and formulating policies for different enterprises.

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“…The spatial structure mainly forms the following three research perspectives. Firstly, the DGI of manufacturing enterprises should be rooted in the comparative advantages built on local digital green resources [32]. Secondly, the research horizon has gradually expanded to the range of remote DGI, advocating the construction of RDGIN to obtain heterogeneous DGI resources [33].…”

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Insight into the Balancing Effect of a Digital Green Innovation (DGI) Network to Improve the Performance of DGI for Industry 5.0: Roles of Digital Empowerment and Green Organization Flexibility

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Yin

2022

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Under the background of double carbon target and digital intelligence era, the innovation resources and innovation environment that manufacturing enterprises rely on have shown exponential growth. Digital green innovation (DGI) has gradually become the mainstream paradigm of innovation. How to achieve a balance between a local DGI network (LDGIN) and a remote DGI network (RDGIN) and how to use the role of digital empowerment and green organization flexibility to improve the performance of DGI are very important issues facing manufacturing enterprises at present. However, this problem has not been fully addressed in the existing research. In this study, the influence mechanism of LDGIN and RDGIN on the DGI performance of manufacturing enterprises was revealed, considering the moderating role of digital empowerment and green organization flexibility. The linear regression method was used to analyze the 562 valid data obtained by questionnaire survey. The results of this study are as follows. The effect of the DGI network on manufacturing enterprises’ DGI performance is heterogeneous because of LDGIN and RDGIN. The establishment of embedded links in a DGI network inevitably requires manufacturing enterprises to pay the corresponding costs. The over-embedding of manufacturing enterprises into RDGIN will have a negative impact on DGI performance. The balance between LDGIN and RDGIN has an important impact on manufacturing enterprises’ operation. The comprehensive balance and relative balance indexes constructed in this paper show that an appropriate balance can promote the improvement of the DGI performance of manufacturing enterprises. Digital transformation and organizational structure innovation are changing the business model of manufacturing enterprises and can regulate the relationship between the LDGIN and RDGIN and the DGI performance of manufacturing enterprises. The balance of DGI network embedding in practice shows the important role and enlightening significance of local and remote search in developing countries.

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Impacts of digital transformation on corporate green technology innovation: Do board characteristics play a role?

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Xie

2023

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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Digital transformation (DT), board characteristics, and green technology innovation (GI) have a substantial impact on corporate sustainability. However, there are seemingly conflicting conclusions about how DT affects an enterprise's GI performance, and few studies have considered the moderating effect of board characteristics. We aim to explore the impact of board characteristics on the correlation between DT and GI, using a sample of 1470 listed companies in China and employing a fixed‐effects model. Our results suggest that DT significantly enhances enterprises' GI performance; DT indirectly promotes the GI performance of enterprises by increasing their R&D investments, optimizing human capital structure, and enhancing management efficiency. Additionally, board gender diversity, board size, and board educational level positively moderate the relationship between DT on GI, whereas the impact will be blunted by board age diversity. Our conclusions are of great value to promote enterprises' GI performance and realize enterprises' sustainable development.

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The double-edged role of the digital economy in firm green innovation: micro-evidence from Chinese manufacturing industry

Cited by 85 publications

References 73 publications

How does the digital economy promote green technology innovation by manufacturing enterprises? Evidence from China

How does the digital economy promote green technology innovation by manufacturing enterprises? Evidence from China

Insight into the Balancing Effect of a Digital Green Innovation (DGI) Network to Improve the Performance of DGI for Industry 5.0: Roles of Digital Empowerment and Green Organization Flexibility

Impacts of digital transformation on corporate green technology innovation: Do board characteristics play a role?

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