Digital Goods Imports,Network Information Infrastructure,and Firm's Positions in the Global Value Chain
Digital technology,as a key technology driving the future development of China,is crucial for industrial upgrading.The way enterprises adopt to introduce digital technology to achieve high-quality development has become an important proposition for current research.This paper adopts the matched data of Chinese industrial enterprises and customs imports and exports from 2007 to 2013 to explore the impact of digital goods imports on the position of enterprises'export global value chain and its mechanism of action.The results show that imports of digital goods significantly inhibit the climb of firms'export GVC positions,and that imports of non-intermediate digital goods have a stronger inhibitory effect;for high value chain position firms,domestic firms and general trading firms,the inhibitory effect generated by imports of digital goods is more pronounced.Further mechanism tests reveal that while digital goods imports promote the elevation of firms'GVC positions through innovation effects,the capture effect results in a low-end lock-in effect on firms'GVC positions.The negative impact of the capture effect on firms'GVC positions outweighs the positive impact of innovation effects,exacerbating the low-end lock-in dilemma faced by domestic firms in the GVC.Development and improvement of regional network information infrastructure can effectively mitigate the negative impact of digital goods imports on firms'GVC positions.It is recommended that the construction of China's network information infrastructure should be continuously improved to provide support for enterprises'independent innovation,thereby helping to break through the"low-end lock-in"dilemma.
digital product importsnetwork information infrastructureglobal value chain position
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