A Study on Sustaining Corporate Innovation with E-Commerce in China

Xintian Wang and Hai Wang
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Xintian Wang: Business School, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
Hai Wang: Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS B3H3C3, Canada

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 23, 1-16

Abstract: Previous research indicates that information technology promotes innovation in general. The mechanisms of how information technology, such as e-commerce, can promote corporate innovation have not yet been fully recognized. The empirical results show that e-commerce promotes corporate innovation by improving the regional informatization level and the local commercial circulation system. The evidence from Chinese firms implies that it is necessary to strengthen the construction of information infrastructure, encourage the transformation and upgrading of traditional commercial circulation, and promote innovation of traditional business in combination with e-commerce.

Keywords: e-commerce; innovation; structural equation modelling; ict (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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