Research on the Mechanism Impact of the Digital Transformation of Enterprises on the Innovation of Suppliers
As the digital economy is developing rapidly,digital transformation has become the focus of enterprises.Suppliers,whose innovation has received much attention,are important partners for the development of enterprises.Based on those samples of A-share listed manufacturing companies from 2012 to 2021,this paper explores the mechanism impact of the digital transformation of enterprises on the innovation of suppliers from the perspective of supplier-customer relationship with the findings be-low.Firstly,the digital transformation of enterprises is positively correlated with the innovation per-formance of suppliers,indicating that the former contributes to the improvement of the latter,which holds true after a series of robustness and endogeneity tests.Secondly,the concentration of suppliers has a positive moderating effect on promoting the innovation of suppliers through the digital transforma-tion of enterprises.Thirdly,a further analysis reveals that the digital transformation of enterprises facil-itates the innovation performance of suppliers with reverse forcing effect and innovation spillover effect.
Digital TransformationInnovation of SuppliersSupplier-customer Relationship