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Enhancing ESG performance through digital transformation: Insights from China's manufacturing sector

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  • Ding, Xiaowei
  • Vuković, Darko B.
  • Sokolov, Boris I.
  • Vukovic, Natalia
  • Liu, Yali

Abstract

This study uses sustainability and stakeholder theories to examine how corporate digital transformation (DIT) impacts ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) performance, focusing on listed Chinese manufacturing firms from 2015 to 2020. The analysis employs two-stage least squares model (2SLS) and propensity score matching-differences in differences (PSM-DID) technique to address endogeneity, and a series of robustness checks to validate the results. Findings reveal that DIT enhances ESG performance by fostering green innovation, encouraging risk-taking, and optimizing resource allocation. Economic policy uncertainty and executives' gender diversity impede these benefits, while party organization embeddedness shows no moderating effect. Additionally, the study identifies spatial spillover effects of DIT on ESG performance, with synergistic effects observed among companies within the same locality and industry. These insights offer profound implications for governmental efforts to improve the business environment and promote green development, ensuring the equitable distribution of "digital dividends” among stakeholders.

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  • Ding, Xiaowei & Vuković, Darko B. & Sokolov, Boris I. & Vukovic, Natalia & Liu, Yali, 2024. "Enhancing ESG performance through digital transformation: Insights from China's manufacturing sector," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:teinso:v:79:y:2024:i:c:s0160791x24003014
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2024.102753
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    Keywords

    Corporate digital transformation; ESG performance; Impact mechanisms; Two-way fixed effects model; Spatial spillover effect;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development
    • Q55 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
    • L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General

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