Digital Transformation,Enterprise Innovation and Competitiveness Promotion——from Perspective of Quality and Efficiency
Promoting the digital transformation of enterprises and gaining sustainable competitive advantage is an important topic of academic concern.Based on the data of China's A-share manufacturing listed companies from 2010 to 2021,this paper studies the impact of digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises on their competitiveness and its mechanism.The results show that dig-ital transformation has a direct impact on the promotion of enterprise competitiveness,and this conclusion still holds after consider-ing endogenous problems and a series of robustness tests.In terms of mechanism,the promotion of digital transformation to enter-prise competitiveness can be realized through two intermediary paths:improving innovation efficiency and innovation quality;In terms of heterogeneity,the digital transformation of enterprises and non-state-owned enterprises located in the eastern part of Chi-na has a more significant impact on the competitiveness of enterprises.This paper not only reveals the influence mechanism of digi-tal transformation on the competitiveness of enterprises,but also provides some management enlightenment for enterprises to re-spond to the requirements of the digital economy era and carry out transformation.
digital transformationenterprise competitivenessinnovation efficiencyinnovative qualitymanufacturing industry