Digital transformation, supply chain collaboration, and enterprise growth: Theoretical logic and Chinese practice☆

Digital transformation, supply chain collaboration, and enterprise growth: Theoretical logic and Chinese practice☆

Digital transformation
Enterprise growth
Supply chain collaboration
Transaction cost

The rapid development of the new generation of digital technology has injected new vitality into the digital transformation (DT) and continued growth of enterprises. This paper selects data from China’s A-share listed companies from 2010 to 2019 and uses transaction cost theory to empirically test the effect of enterprise digital transformation (EDT) on enterprise growth and its mechanism. Research has found that DT can significantly promote enterprise growth. The reduction of supply chain collaboration costs plays an important role as an intermediary mechanism in this process. At the same time, industry competition intensity, regional marketization level, and digital infrastructure level have played positive regulatory roles. In addition, when the enterprise’s
level of financing constraints is low and it is a manufacturing enterprise or state-owned enterprise, the promotion effect of EDT on enterprise growth is more significant. While expanding the research perspective and measurement methods of EDT, this paper integrates the strategic actions of EDT and the inter-enterprise collaboration costs of the supply chain into a unified theoretical framework, revealing a new theoretical mechanism for DT to promote enterprise growth. It also provides practical inspiration for relevant policy formulation and enterprise transformation and upgrading.

Bin Li , Chuanjian Xu, Yacang Wang , Yang Zhao, Qin Zhou, Xiaodong Xing

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/european-research-on-management-and-business-economics/vol/30/issue/2

Elsevier Espana, S.L.U

18 June 2024

Sri Wahyuni

ISSN: 2444-8834

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Jurnal Internasional European Research on Management and Business Economics 2024