Does the Digital Transformation of Chinese Agricultural Enterprises Really Improve Green Technology Innovation Performance?

• 발행기관: 동아시아경상학회
• 저자명: Gang YANG
• 간행물 정보: 『East Asian Journal of Business Economics』Vol.12 No.4, 1~11쪽, 전체 11쪽
• 주제분류: 경제경영 > 경제학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2024.12.31

국문 초록

Purpose: This study investigates the impact of digital transformation on green innovation in China's agricultural listed companies, focusing on the moderating role of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. Research Design, Data and Methodology: This study uses quantitative research methods, selecting annual report data of China's agricultural listed companies from 2014 to 2023 and Huazheng ESG data, using a regression model of panel data analysis to explore the impact of digital transformation on green innovation and explore ESG moderating effect. Results: Digital transformation has a significant negative impact on green innovation (coefficient = -0.048, p < 0.05), particularly due to resource reallocation during technology upgrades. ESG performance moderates this relationship (interaction term coefficient = -0.113, p < 0.05), intensifying the negative effects rather than mitigating them. Conclusions: Digital transformation of agricultural enterprises is crucial to green technology innovation. However, the improvement of ESG performance has not only failed to alleviate this negative impact, but has made the problem worse. Specifically, ESG performance plays a key mediating role in the connection between digital transformation and green innovation, and this mediating role actually helps to amplify the negative consequences of digital transformation rather than reduce them.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Literature Review and Research Hypotheses

3. Research Design

4. Analysis of Empirical Results

5. Further Research

6. Conclusion and Implications

References

키워드

Digital Transformation Green technology Innovation ESG Performance Agricultural Enterprises