Digital technology innovation promotes green transformation: Empirical evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises
Digital technology innovation (DTI) has become increasingly important for promoting green transformation (GT) in the manufacturing sector. Based on the panel data of manufacturing enterprises listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share markets from 2011 to 2023, this work investigates the DTI’s impa...
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| description | Digital technology innovation (DTI) has become increasingly important for promoting green transformation (GT) in the manufacturing sector. Based on the panel data of manufacturing enterprises listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share markets from 2011 to 2023, this work investigates the DTI’s impact on GT and the underlying mechanism. Our results show that, first, every unit increase in DTI results in the increase of the degree of GT by an average of 39.0 %; Second, DTI facilitates the GT primarily through improving the quality of environmental information disclosure (EIDQ); Third, pressures from environmental regulation(EPRP) and social public opinion(SPOP) further enhance the promotion of DTI on GT; Last, invention-based DTI has a more pronounced effect on promoting GT than utility model-based DTI, and DTI is more effective in facilitating substantive GT than strategic GT. Overall, the knowledge thus gained may serve as valuable insights for promoting GT on a global scale, particularly in the developing countries. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d0be04939a4843ee9ef0ffa0bde7d6f92025-08-20T03:49:50ZengElsevierSustainable Futures2666-18882025-12-011010096410.1016/j.sftr.2025.100964Digital technology innovation promotes green transformation: Empirical evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprisesZihan Song0Manli Jia1Youwei Ma2School of Economics and Management, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot 010000, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot 010000, China; Corresponding authors.Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Station 12, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; Corresponding authors.Digital technology innovation (DTI) has become increasingly important for promoting green transformation (GT) in the manufacturing sector. Based on the panel data of manufacturing enterprises listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share markets from 2011 to 2023, this work investigates the DTI’s impact on GT and the underlying mechanism. Our results show that, first, every unit increase in DTI results in the increase of the degree of GT by an average of 39.0 %; Second, DTI facilitates the GT primarily through improving the quality of environmental information disclosure (EIDQ); Third, pressures from environmental regulation(EPRP) and social public opinion(SPOP) further enhance the promotion of DTI on GT; Last, invention-based DTI has a more pronounced effect on promoting GT than utility model-based DTI, and DTI is more effective in facilitating substantive GT than strategic GT. Overall, the knowledge thus gained may serve as valuable insights for promoting GT on a global scale, particularly in the developing countries.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666188825005283Digital technology innovationGreen transformationQuality of environmental information disclosureEnvironmental regulation and social opinionManufacturing enterprises |
| spellingShingle | Zihan Song Manli Jia Youwei Ma Digital technology innovation promotes green transformation: Empirical evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises Sustainable Futures Digital technology innovation Green transformation Quality of environmental information disclosure Environmental regulation and social opinion Manufacturing enterprises |
| title | Digital technology innovation promotes green transformation: Empirical evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises |
| title_full | Digital technology innovation promotes green transformation: Empirical evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises |
| title_fullStr | Digital technology innovation promotes green transformation: Empirical evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises |
| title_full_unstemmed | Digital technology innovation promotes green transformation: Empirical evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises |
| title_short | Digital technology innovation promotes green transformation: Empirical evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises |
| title_sort | digital technology innovation promotes green transformation empirical evidence from chinese manufacturing enterprises |
| topic | Digital technology innovation Green transformation Quality of environmental information disclosure Environmental regulation and social opinion Manufacturing enterprises |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666188825005283 |
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