From bytes to green: The impact of supply chain digitization on corporate green innovation

IF 13.6 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Energy Economics Pub Date : 2024-10-05 DOI:10.1016/j.eneco.2024.107942

Jing Ma , Qing Li , Qiuyun Zhao , Jennhae Liou , Chen Li

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Abstract

A significant share of corporate carbon emissions stems from the supply chain, necessitating an analysis of how supply chain digitalization influences green innovation in the digital age. This paper examines this impact using data from Chinese listed firms (2012−2022). Theoretically, the study posits that supply chain digitalization facilitates green innovation through two primary mechanisms: enhancing upstream and downstream integration and boosting the internal efficiency of supply chain management at nodal enterprises. Empirically, a quasi-natural experiment leveraging the Supply Chain Innovation and Application Pilot Program serves as an exogenous shock. Key findings include: (1) Supply chain digitalization enhances corporate green innovation, with robust results across various tests. (2) The effect is mainly driven by enhanced supply chain integration—more from supplier concentration than customer concentration—and improved internal supply chain management efficiency. (3) The impact has three characteristics: Quality-first Effect, Crowding-in Effect and Persistence Effect. Specifically, supply chain digitalization mainly boosts high-quality green invention patent applications without crowding-out other non-green innovation, while also positively influences sustained green innovation. (4) Supply chain digitalization primarily enhances green innovation in End-of-Pipe and Process Control Technologies, with limited effects on Pollution Prevention at Source.

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从字节到绿色：供应链数字化对企业绿色创新的影响

企业碳排放的很大一部分来自供应链，因此有必要分析供应链数字化如何影响数字时代的绿色创新。本文利用中国上市公司的数据（2012-2022 年）研究了这一影响。理论上，研究认为供应链数字化通过两个主要机制促进绿色创新：加强上下游整合和提高节点企业供应链管理的内部效率。在实证研究中，利用 "供应链创新与应用试点计划 "的准自然实验作为外生冲击。主要结论包括(1) 供应链数字化增强了企业的绿色创新，在各种测试中结果都很稳健。(2）其影响主要来自于供应链整合的加强--更多来自于供应商集中而非客户集中，以及内部供应链管理效率的提高。(3) 影响有三个特征：质量优先效应（Quality-first Effect）、挤入效应（Crowding-in Effect）和持续效应（Persistence Effect）。具体来说，供应链数字化主要促进了高质量的绿色发明专利申请，而不会排挤其他非绿色创新，同时还对持续的绿色创新产生积极影响。(4) 供应链数字化主要促进了末端技术和过程控制技术的绿色创新，对源头污染防治的影响有限。

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Energy Economics ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

18.60

自引率

12.50%

发文量

524

期刊介绍： Energy Economics is a field journal that focuses on energy economics and energy finance. It covers various themes including the exploitation, conversion, and use of energy, markets for energy commodities and derivatives, regulation and taxation, forecasting, environment and climate, international trade, development, and monetary policy. The journal welcomes contributions that utilize diverse methods such as experiments, surveys, econometrics, decomposition, simulation models, equilibrium models, optimization models, and analytical models. It publishes a combination of papers employing different methods to explore a wide range of topics. The journal's replication policy encourages the submission of replication studies, wherein researchers reproduce and extend the key results of original studies while explaining any differences. Energy Economics is indexed and abstracted in several databases including Environmental Abstracts, Fuel and Energy Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, GEOBASE, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Economic Literature, INSPEC, and more.