Digital transformation and corporate green innovation: An affordance theory perspective

IF 12.5 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Business Strategy and The Environment Pub Date : 2024-10-10 DOI:10.1002/bse.3991

Zhe Sun, Liang Zhao, Ankit Mehrotra, Muhammad Asif Salam, Muhammad Zafar Yaqub

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Abstract

The rise of cutting‐edge technologies motivates corporations to undertake and carry forward green innovation, aiding economic development by maintaining environmental sustainability. Using A‐share listed firms from 2013 to 2022 as the research sample, the paper empirically examines the impact of digital transformation on corporate green innovation from an affordance perspective. The findings suggest that the higher the level of digital transformation, backed by accumulative and variational affordances, in a firm, the more conducive it is to corporate green innovation as it enables the homogenization, recombination, and transformation of existing information related to green environmental protection and low‐carbon energy efficiency, facilitating firms to achieve targeted and breakthrough green innovations. The analysis of the moderating effects of public environmental concern, economic policy uncertainty, and regional innovation readiness suggested that public environmental concern and regional innovation readiness positively moderate the relationship between digital transformation and corporate green innovation, while economic policy uncertainty perception negatively moderates this relationship. Heterogeneity analyses suggest that digital transformation positively affects corporate green innovation within labor‐intensive firms and state‐owned enterprises. The study contributes to the literature by enhancing our understanding of the affordance theory in the domain of digital transformation. By investigating the key organizational and institutional affordances – economic policy uncertainty perception, public environmental concern, and regional innovation readiness – the research provides valuable insight to policymakers in fostering green innovation.

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数字化转型与企业绿色创新：承受力理论视角

前沿技术的崛起促使企业开展并推进绿色创新，在保持环境可持续性的同时助力经济发展。本文以2013年至2022年的A股上市公司为研究样本，从承受力的角度实证检验了数字化转型对企业绿色创新的影响。研究结果表明，在积累性和变异性能力支持下，企业的数字化转型水平越高，越有利于企业的绿色创新，因为数字化转型可以实现与绿色环保和低碳节能相关的现有信息的同质化、重组和转化，促进企业实现有针对性和突破性的绿色创新。对公众环境关注度、经济政策不确定性和区域创新准备度的调节效应分析表明，公众环境关注度和区域创新准备度正调节数字化转型与企业绿色创新之间的关系，而经济政策不确定性感知负调节这一关系。异质性分析表明，数字化转型对劳动密集型企业和国有企业的企业绿色创新有积极影响。本研究通过加强我们对数字化转型领域的承受力理论的理解，为相关文献做出了贡献。通过调查关键的组织和制度承受力--经济政策不确定性感知、公众环境关注度和区域创新准备度--该研究为政策制定者促进绿色创新提供了有价值的见解。

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Business Strategy and The Environment Multiple-

CiteScore

22.50

自引率

19.40%

发文量

336

期刊介绍： Business Strategy and the Environment (BSE) is a leading academic journal focused on business strategies for improving the natural environment. It publishes peer-reviewed research on various topics such as systems and standards, environmental performance, disclosure, eco-innovation, corporate environmental management tools, organizations and management, supply chains, circular economy, governance, green finance, industry sectors, and responses to climate change and other contemporary environmental issues. The journal aims to provide original contributions that enhance the understanding of sustainability in business. Its target audience includes academics, practitioners, business managers, and consultants. However, BSE does not accept papers on corporate social responsibility (CSR), as this topic is covered by its sibling journal Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. The journal is indexed in several databases and collections such as ABI/INFORM Collection, Agricultural & Environmental Science Database, BIOBASE, Emerald Management Reviews, GeoArchive, Environment Index, GEOBASE, INSPEC, Technology Collection, and Web of Science.