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| The Non-linear Impact of Digitalization Level on Corporate Carbon Performance:The Mediating Effect of Green Technology Innovation |
| Xiao Renqiao1,Wang Ran1,Qian Li1,2 |
| (1.School of Business Administration, Anhui University of Finance & Economics, Bengbu 233030, China;2.School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China) |
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Abstract China's industrial economy is growing at a high speed. In order to alleviate the ensuing problems of energy shortage and environmental pollution, the main source of China's industrial growth has been transformed from labor and capital investment to technological progress. However, there is still a considerable scale of manufacturing industries which show extensive growth and remain at the middle level and low endof the international industrial chain, and thus it is urgent to adjust the economic structure and realize industrial upgrading. The general economic development trend involves social networking, digitization and intelligence. The combination of digitization and carbon emissions has brought new driving forces to the development of industrial enterprises.#br#Given the digital strategy and the goals of "carbon peak" and "carbon neutrality", this paper discusses the nonlinear impact mechanism of digital level on corporate carbon performance and the mediating transmission of green technology innovation from three dimensions of digital construction, application and development. The data of Chinese industrial enterprises and the dynamic GMM model from 2010 to 2020 are selected for the empirical testing. The results reveal that firstly the level of digital construction, application and development has a U-shaped relationship with the carbon performance of enterprises. The levels of digital construction and application in most central and western provinces have not crossed the inflection point, and the impact on the carbon performance of enterprises is still in the inhibition stage. However, the digital development levels of eastern China and a few central and western provinces have crossed the inflection point, and has a significant promotion effect on the carbon performance of enterprises. Secondly both corporate inventive green technology innovation and improved green technology innovation play a partial mediating role between digital construction, application and development level and corporate carbon performance. The mediation effect decomposition shows that compared with improved green technology innovation, inventive green technology innovation has a more significant mediating role between various dimensions of digitalization level and corporate carbon performance. The robustness test is carried out by changing the data year, and it is found that the above conclusions still hold.#br#With integration of digitalization level, green technology innovation and enterprise carbon performance into a unified framework, this study discusses the nonlinear impact mechanism of different dimensions of digitalization level on enterprise carbon performance, as well as the mediating role of green technology innovation. It helps to improve the promotion effect of digital technology on enterprise low-carbon development, and provide decision-making reference for relevant departments to formulate the digitalization low-carbon development strategies. The following policy implications are therefor proposed. (1) The government should increase the digitalization investment in the central and western regions, and with appropriate preference to the central and western regions when formulating digital transformation policies to ease the development gap of regional enterprises' digitalization level, and accelerate the promotion of digital level on carbon performance. The central and western regions should strengthen communication and cooperation with the east, and deepen the introduction, digestion and absorption of digital technology to shorten the time when digital application level blocks carbon performance. The government should further optimize the digital talent incentive mechanism and digital industry guidance fund, and support outstanding digital industry entities to achieve high-quality digital development. (2) Enterprises should optimize the allocation of green technology innovation resources and promote the deep integration of digitalization and green technology innovation. The government should strengthen the financial support and property right protection for enterprises' green technology innovation, and further build the existing data resource platform with digital technology to achieve intelligent and real-time supervision and improve the quality of government environmental supervision. It is also necessary for enterprises to increase investment ingreen technology innovation according to their own actual conditions, and promote the transformation and technological upgrading of improved green technology innovation to effectively promote the green and low-carbon development of enterprises.#br#
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Received: 27 July 2022
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