Enterprise Digital Research Articles

Why do Employees (not) Support Enterprise Digital Transformation? A Transactional Theory of Stress Perspective

Employee support is a vital component for enterprise digital transformation, and a clearer understanding of its mechanism is crucial to the success of such transformation. Drawing upon the transactional theory of stress, we examine why employees (not) support enterprise digital transformation. A field study of 121 employees in a company undergoing digital transformation demonstrates that challenge and hindrance appraisals are two countervailing mechanisms that mediate the relationship between enterprise digital transformation and employee digital transformation support. The results further show that employees’ regulatory foci moderate the indirect effect of enterprise digital transformation on employee digital transformation support through their challenge or hindrance appraisal of the digital transformation. Specifically, employees with a higher promotion (prevention) focus are more likely to engage in challenge (hindrance) appraisal and support (not support) enterprise digital transformation. Our research has theoretical and managerial implications for employee management for enterprise digital transformation.

The Impact of Enterprise Digital Capability on Supply Chain Digitalization—From the Perspective of Supply Chain Cooperation

This paper explores in depth the mechanism of enterprise digital capability effects in supply chain digital development by reconstructing the supply chain cooperation capabilities (digital diffusion capability and digital collaborative capability). We use the questionnaire data covering 272 Chinese manufacturing enterprises and apply a structural equation model to test the hypothesis. The empirical result demonstrates that enterprise digital capability does not directly have a significant impact on supply chain digitalization, and the supply chain cooperation capabilities play a mediating role between an enterprise’s digital capability and supply chain digitalization. The results are robust as we thoroughly consider the direction of enterprise capabilities and verify the systematic requirements of supply chain digitalization and the high order of enterprise digital capability. These provide a theoretical basis for enterprises to promote the digital transformation of their supply chain through digital technology.

Research on the Impact and Solution Strategies of Blockchain Technology on Data Security and Transparency in Enterprise Digital Transformation

Abstract: This research delves into the profound impact of blockchain technology on enhancing data security and transparency during enterprises digital transformation. By dissecting blockchains core attributesdecentralization, immutability, and advanced securitythis study elucidates how it offers pragmatic solutions to prevalent challenges such as data breaches and opaque information processing. Leveraging an extensive literature review, meticulous case analysis, and expert insights, the article comprehensively illustrates blockchains diverse applications in ensuring data integrity and enhancing transparency across critical sectors, including financial services, supply chain management, and healthcare. Furthermore, the study identifies and deliberates on existing research gaps in blockchain technologys application within digital transformation, proposing a systematic framework to deepen comprehension of its role in this process. Moreover, it conducts an in-depth analysis of the technical, operational, and environmental hurdles hindering blockchain adoption, offering a series of action strategies to enable enterprises to harness their potential effectively amidst the swiftly evolving digital landscape. Through this comprehensive inquiry, the article underscores the strategic significance of blockchain technology in augmenting corporate operational transparency and data security. Additionally, it elucidates how blockchain can bolster corporate governance, compliance, and stakeholder trust. Overall, this synthesis provides a thorough review and profound insights into research findings, underscoring blockchains pivotal role in addressing contemporary digital challenges while furnishing invaluable strategic guidance for industry innovation and advancement. The research outcomes hold substantial implications for practitioners and researchers, signaling the transformative potential of blockchain technology in reshaping enterprise operations and charting a course for future exploration in this pivotal domain.

Synergizing Enterprise Digital Governance and Green Development: Opportunities and Challenges

With the in-depth development of global informatization and industrialization, the collaborative development of enterprise digital governance and green has become an important issue faced by enterprises today. Digital governance can improve the operational efficiency of enterprises, while green collaborative development can help enterprises achieve sustainable development. The two complement each other and jointly promote the long-term development of enterprises. This paper will analyze the current situation, challenges, and development trends of the collaborative development of enterprise digital governance and green and present some insights and thoughts. Only by strengthening the mutual promotion of digital governance and green collaborative development can the sustainable development of enterprises be achieved. In the future, with the in-depth development of informatization and industrialization, this topic will be more important. This study hope that more enterprises and research institutions will pay attention to this issue, jointly promote the progress of digital governance and green coordinated development and contribute to green and high-quality economic and social development.

Processes of Managing Changes in Contex of Enterprise Digital Transformation

Processes of Managing Changes in Contex of Enterprise Digital Transformation

Research on the Impact of Enterprise Digital Transformation on High-Quality Development and Countermeasures

With the rapid development of the digital economy, enterprises face the important task of digital transformation. This paper, based on the analysis of literature, discusses the positive impacts of digital transformation on the high-quality development of enterprises, reveals the main mechanisms of digital transformation, and proposes corresponding countermeasures for the challenges encountered by enterprises during the digital transformation process. The study finds that digital transformation can optimize the talent structure of enterprises, improve organizational governance, nurture new market environments, and thereby promote the high-quality development of enterprises. This paper suggests that enterprises should strengthen the training of digital talents, optimize organizational structures, and innovate business models using digital technologies to adapt to the needs of the digital age.

The Impact of Enterprise Digital Transformation on Low-Carbon Supply Chains: Empirical Evidence from China

The vigorous development of the digital economy, alongside the collaborative promotion of enterprise digital transformation and low-carbon supply chains, has emerged as a critical pathway for achieving green and high-quality development in enterprises. In this paper, we utilize a mathematical model framework to empirically investigate the mechanisms and impacts of enterprise digital transformation on the low-carbon effect of supply chains, employing data from A-share-listed companies spanning 2011 to 2021. The findings indicate that (1) enhancing the degree of enterprise digital transformation can significantly decrease the carbon emission intensity of upstream suppliers, thereby promoting low-carbon supply chains. (2) “Innovation-driven” and “structural transformation” mechanisms are vital channels by which enterprise digital transformation promotes carbon reduction in supply chains. (3) The diffusion mechanism effect and demonstration effect exhibit heterogeneity in the process of enterprise digital transformation, driving low-carbon emission reductions in supply chains.

Learn from Whom? An Empirical Study of Enterprise Digital Mimetic Isomorphism under the Institutional Environment

Learn from Whom? An Empirical Study of Enterprise Digital Mimetic Isomorphism under the Institutional Environment

The Mechanism of Enterprise Digital Transformation on Resilience from the Perspective of Financial Sustainability

In the period following the global COVID-19 pandemic, financial sustainability has become critical for the survival of enterprises around the world. This paper investigates the mechanisms and implications of digital transformation on resilience from the perspective of financial sustainability, that is, financial resilience. Employing a sample of Chinese listed firms, the study documents that digital transformation was positively related to financial resilience in normal states due to improved internal corporate governance, increased analyst coverage, alleviated financial constraints, and reduced operation risk. The relationship was more significant for companies with digitally literate executives, non–state–owned companies, and high–tech companies. However, it was not significant during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic and for companies with consecutive losses and delisting warnings. These findings provide unique evidence to support the beneficial effects of digital transformation on corporate resilience and to identify strategies for strengthening financial sustainability.

THE IMPACT OF ENTERPRISE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ON GREEN TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION IN MANUFACTURING: A FACTOR FLOW PERSPECTIVE

Harnessing enterprise digital transformation to drive green technological innovation and achieve carbon reduction goals is an inevitable trend amid carbon reduction efforts. This study analyzed the impact of digital transformation on green technological innovation and the mediating role of innovation factors through a regression analysis model. The results indicate that digital transformation impacted the quantity of green technology innovation significantly more than quality. This impact was mediated by knowledge capital, human capital, physical capital, and innovation consciousness. The positive influence of digital transformation on green technology innovation varied based on corporate ownership nature and geographical location. Furthermore, the negative impact of green technology innovation on corporate value diminished over time. It is imperative for multiple stakeholders, including governments and enterprises, to collaborate in promoting innovation mobility. They should fully leverage the impact of digital transformation to enhance the quality and quantity of green technological innovation.

The Impact of Enterprise Digitization on Investor Protection: Evidence from China

This paper takes China listed companies from 2011 to 2021 as a sample to explore the impact of digital transformation on investor protection. The study finds that the digital transformation of enterprises improves the level of investor protection, and the intermediary mechanism test shows that digital transformation improves the level of investor protection by improving corporate transparency. Further analysis shows that the level of enterprise risk exposure has a negative moderating effect in the process of improving the level of investor protection in the process of enterprise digital transformation, while executive shareholding and corporate ESG disclosure have a substitute role. This paper provides important enlightenment for protecting investors' interests, enhancing investors' investment confidence, and increasing the proportion of direct financing.

The Impact of Banking Competition on Enterprise Digital Intelligence Transformation

The Impact of Banking Competition on Enterprise Digital Intelligence Transformation

Research on the Impact of Enterprise Digital Transformation on Pollution Reduction and Carbon Reduction in the Manufacturing Industry

Research on the Impact of Enterprise Digital Transformation on Pollution Reduction and Carbon Reduction in the Manufacturing Industry

Executive Social Connection, Regional Digital Economy Development, and Enterprise Digital Transformation

Aiming at the research limitation concerning the insufficient exploration of executive social connections in enterprise digital transformation, our research objective is to investigate the influence of executive social connections, namely political and business connections, on enterprise digital transformation. Furthermore, it assesses the moderating effects of regional digital economy development on these relationships. An empirical analysis, encompassing 5407 observations from 868 listed firms between 2012 and 2021 in China, demonstrates that executive political and business connections significantly contribute to enterprise digital transformation both individually and synergistically. Specifically, political connections are found to be more relevant to enhancing enterprise digital transformation in regions with higher levels of digital economy development, while business connections exhibit a stronger correlation in regions with lower levels of digital economy development. Additionally, it is revealed that the synergistic effect of political and business connections is more relevant to enterprise digital transformation in regions with lower levels of digital economy development.

How government digital attention alleviates enterprise financing constraints: An enterprise digitalization perspective

This study emphasizes the impact of government interventions on improving enterprise financing in the digital age. By analyzing data from China's A-share listed companies spanning 2011 to 2021, it reveals that government digital attention significantly alleviates enterprise financing constraints. These findings remain robust after rigorous endogeneity and robustness tests. The study further elucidates that government digital attention facilitates enterprise digital transformation and innovation, which, in turn, ameliorates enterprise financing constraints. This elucidation of a dual-mechanism model augments the scholarly comprehension of the interplay between governmental initiatives and enterprise financing, providing imperative implications for policy formulation.

Research on the Application of Artificial Intelligence Technology in Enterprise Digital Transformation and Manager Empowerment

Significant technical developments have occurred in the digital era, altering the dynamics of modern businesses and bringing both difficulties and opportunities. The purpose of this study was to thoroughly investigate the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation, as well as how these factors affect managerial empowerment and organizational performance. Additionally, the study looked at how employee engagement functions as a mediator and how digital readiness modifies these relationships. Using a quantitative method, a structured questionnaire was used to gather data from a sample of 282 companies that were chosen at random. The AMOS software's structural equation modeling (SEM) aided in the investigation of the linkages. The findings demonstrated strong and positive relationships between AI and digital transformation and organizational performance and managerial empowerment, which were mediated and regulated by employee engagement and digital preparedness. By providing a cohesive paradigm, this study gives practical insights for enterprises managing the digital landscape while also advancing theoretical understanding. This study is unique in that it examines the linkages between AI, digital transformation, employee engagement, and digital preparedness in the context of organizational performance and managerial empowerment.

Impact of CEO’s scientific research background on the enterprise digital level

Leveraging the Chinese capital market, we investigate the relationship between a CEO’s scientific research background and the level of digitalization within enterprises. Our results demonstrate robust findings indicating that a CEO’s scientific research background significantly enhances the level of enterprise digitalization. Moreover, we observe that this correlation is more pronounced in companies controlled by non-state-owned enterprises, those operating within a more advanced digital economy, and those engaged in high levels of regional integration. Furthermore, we establish that the positive impact of a CEO’s research background on a company’s digitalization level is primarily driven by fostering the organization’s innovation drive. Overall, our research suggests that CEOs with scientific research backgrounds are instrumental in encouraging a culture of innovation within their firms, thereby enhancing enterprise digitalization performance. This study contributes to the literature by exploring the factors influencing enterprise digitalization levels through the lens of managerial experience and analyzing the economic implications of management experience on enterprise digital transformation. Methodologically, we have refined and enhanced the measurement approach for assessing enterprise digitalization levels. Practically, our findings underscore the importance of promoting cross-industry and cross-regional exchanges of high-caliber talent for executives, enterprises, and governmental entities alike.

ITIL Service Configuration Management as a Driver of Enterprise Digital Transformation: A Quantitative Research Study

ITIL Service Configuration Management as a Driver of Enterprise Digital Transformation: A Quantitative Research Study

A Mechanistic Study of Enterprise Digital Intelligence Transformation, Innovation Resilience, and Firm Performance

Enterprise Digital Intelligence Transformation is based on the Digital Conversion of information and process service upgrading, further touching the enterprise’s core business, with the goal of building a new business model of Digital Intelligence Transformation at a higher level. Based on dynamic capability theory, this paper conducts an in-depth study on the mechanism of enterprise Digital Intelligence Transformation and firm performance. This paper selects manufacturing companies listed in China’s Shanghai and Shenzhen A-shares from 2013 to 2022 as the research sample, and analyzes and tests the sample data using empirical research methods in order to explore the actual impact of Digital Intelligence Transformation on firm performance, including the specific pathways of action and moderating effects. This study helps enterprises to positively face the megatrend of Digital Intelligence Transformation and upgrading and the challenges it brings, and to grasp the new opportunities in the digital era. This study finds that enterprises carry out digital empowerment transformation and development strategies, and implement information Digital Conversion, service upgrading, and Digital Intelligence Transformation to promote firm performance to different degrees. Enterprise innovation resilience has a mechanism effect between information digitalization conversion enterprise performance and process service upgrading enterprise performance. The higher the environmental uncertainty, the greater the positive contribution of information digitalization to firm performance. Digital Conversion is the base and service upgrading is the process. The current sample enterprises have limited years of data collection, and most of them have only carried out the strategic implementation of Digital Conversion or servitization, and have not reached the high-level stage of digital and intellectual transformation. Therefore, it is found that enterprise innovation resilience has not yet shown a significant role mechanism effect between digital–intelligent transformation and enterprise performance at present. And environmental uncertainty has not yet shown a significant moderating effect in the stage of Servitization Upgrading and digital–intelligent transformation. The marginal contributions of this paper are mainly reflected in the following: (1) This study introduces the dynamic capability theory to explore the role of Digital Intelligence Transformation (Digital Conversion + service upgrading) on enterprise performance. (2) This paper investigates the role of Digital Intelligence Transformation in influencing the performance of enterprises from the Digital Conversion and service upgrading phases, and enriches the relevant role and regulatory mechanisms. (3) This study provides new ideas and strategic suggestions on Digital Intelligence Transformation for enterprises with different factor intensities, at different stages of development, and in different regions.

Exploring Mechanism Innovation and Strategic Transformation of Enterprise Digital Management by Combining Blockchain Technology

With the development of Internet technology, enterprises are in urgent need of transformation and upgrading, and blockchain has attracted widespread attention due to its features of decentralization, de-trusting, traceability of historical data, non-tampering, and collective maintenance. The study combines the TOE framework to select relevant variables, constructs a structural equation model of the influencing factors of enterprise blockchain technology application, collects data through questionnaire design and conducts tests, and reveals the main influencing factors of enterprise application of blockchain technology. Taking 50 high-tech enterprises as samples, the relationship between the application of blockchain technology and the level of enterprise digital management is verified through multiple regression analysis, and then the application of blockchain technology to promote the innovation of enterprise digital management mechanism and strategic transformation is summarized. Eight significant influencing factors affecting enterprise application of blockchain technology were obtained (P < 0.05), among which the influence of enterprise top management support and network effect is most obvious. There is a significant positive correlation between the application of blockchain technology and the level of enterprise digital management, with a regression coefficient of 0.003. The application of blockchain technology can improve the efficiency of enterprise management, safeguard the security of enterprise data and accurately determine responsibility, thus helping the innovation of management mechanism and transformation and upgrading of enterprises.