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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2023, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (12): 350-360.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2023.0308

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The Impact of Digital Development on Corporate Green Innovation

Li-ting FANG1,Guan-lan ZHANG2,Kun-ming LI3()   

  1. 1.School of Economics and Management, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China
    2.School of Mathematics and Statistics, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China
    3.College of Economics and Management, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
  • Received:2023-02-23 Revised:2023-08-25 Online:2023-12-15 Published:2024-01-06
  • Contact: Kun-ming LI E-mail:li968ming@163.com

Abstract:

As the world's largest carbon emitter, China is committed to building a sustainable environmental governance system, and optimizing the industrial structure and energy structure. Green innovation is an important support for transforming the mode of economic development and promoting the construction of ecological civilization. How to promote enterprises to carry out effective and high-quality green innovation is an important issue to be solved urgently in the new era. At present, the rapid development of the digital economy and the depth of its influence are unprecedented. It has become a new force in the global restructuring of factor resources and economic structure, and in the changing of the competitive landscape. Therefore, in the context of digital economy, enterprise digital transformation will soon become an important driving force for the upgrading of green innovation strategy. In particular, the impact of digital development on the upgrading of enterprises' green innovation strategy is worthy of in-depth discussion.All A-share listed companies are selected from 2011 to 2020 as research samples. Based on natural resource base view and transaction cost theory, panel quantile regression model and adjustment mechanism model are constructed. The impact of enterprise digital development on green innovation and the specific transmission path is discussed, and then the regulatory role of financing constraints and local intellectual property protection on the impact of digital economy is explored. The results show that there is a significant positive correlation between enterprise digital development and green innovation, that is, enterprise digital development has a lagging incentive effect on green innovation, and can promote the output of green invention patents and green utility patents. According to the panel quantile regression, the innovation-driving effect of digital development is different for enterprises with different levels of green innovation output. With the continuous improvement of enterprises' green innovation level, the incentive effect of digital development is more and more significant. In addition, the regulatory mechanism analysis results show that the promotion effect of enterprise digital development on green innovation is more significant in enterprises with low financing constraints and strong local intellectual property protection. This study has certain reference significance for the consequences of digital economy and the development of enterprise green innovation.

Key words: digital development, green innovation, financing constraints, local intellectual property protection

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