As a new factor of production,digital technology is an important means for enterprises to enhance their com-petitiveness in the market with technological innovation as a key driving force to promote the effective integration of digital technology and the real economy.This paper,based on the perspective of dual innovation,by using the data from publicly listed manufacturing companies from 2013 to 2022,analyzes the theoretical mechanisms through which digital transforma-tion enhances the competitiveness of manufacturing enterprises and it also employs the Sobel and bootstrap test methods to examine the mediating role of dual innovation.The empirical results show that the digital transformation of manufacturing en-terprises can greatly improve their competitiveness and from the mechanism path,the digital transformation of enterprises can indirectly promote the competitiveness of enterprises by improving the two paths of enterprise exploration and utilization innovation.In addition,heterogeneity test shows that the positive promotion effect of digitization exists only in central and eastern regions,but not in western regions and compared with state-owned enterprises,driving digital transformation play a bigger role in non-state-owned enterprises.
digital transformationenterprise competitivenessexploration innovationutilization innovation
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维普
