{"title":"Government Digital Product Procurement and Enterprise Digital Transformation","authors":"Siyu Chen, Xiaojing Chao, Can Wang, Zhixin Xue","doi":"10.1111/cwe.12605","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigated whether and how government procurement of digital products influenced corporate digital transformation. Using data on Chinese listed firms from 2015 to 2022 and applying web-scraping techniques to identify government procurement of digital products, it found that firms securing more government digital procurement contracts were more likely to undertake digital transformations. The effect was more pronounced for large-scale, mature, state-owned firms, and those located in regions with a lower level of digital infrastructure or non-technology-based enterprises. Mechanism analysis suggested that government procurement supported digital transformation by strengthening expectations of future market demand, reducing cash flow risk, and alleviating transformation-related uncertainty. These findings provide empirical evidence that, in the digital intelligence era, government procurement of digital products can boost the digital transformation of enterprises.</p>","PeriodicalId":51603,"journal":{"name":"China & World Economy","volume":"33 5","pages":"139-166"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"China & World Economy","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cwe.12605","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study investigated whether and how government procurement of digital products influenced corporate digital transformation. Using data on Chinese listed firms from 2015 to 2022 and applying web-scraping techniques to identify government procurement of digital products, it found that firms securing more government digital procurement contracts were more likely to undertake digital transformations. The effect was more pronounced for large-scale, mature, state-owned firms, and those located in regions with a lower level of digital infrastructure or non-technology-based enterprises. Mechanism analysis suggested that government procurement supported digital transformation by strengthening expectations of future market demand, reducing cash flow risk, and alleviating transformation-related uncertainty. These findings provide empirical evidence that, in the digital intelligence era, government procurement of digital products can boost the digital transformation of enterprises.
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The bi-monthly China & World Economy was launched in 1993 by the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). It is the only English-language journal in China devoted to the topic of the Chinese economy. The journal aims to provide foreign readers with an objective, impartial, analytical and up-to-date account of the problems faced and progress made by China in its interaction with the world economy. Among its contributors are many distinguished Chinese economists from both academic and government circles. As such, it has become a unique window on China and is essential reading for all those concerned with China"s development.
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