Digitalization Level and Green-Oriented Transition Development of Highly Energy-Intensive Enterprises Based on Carbon Reduction Perspective

Xinlin Liao, Yu Zhang, Xinyu Wang and Ruijia Yuan ()
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Xinlin Liao: School of Economics, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu 233030, China
Yu Zhang: School of Economics, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu 233030, China
Xinyu Wang: School of Management Science and Engineering, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu 233030, China
Ruijia Yuan: School of Management Science and Engineering, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu 233030, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 21, 1-19

Abstract: Against the dual background of the vigorous shape of digital economy and the severe pressure for carbon reduction, exploring the mechanism of the relationship between digitalization level and carbon reduction of highly energy-intensive enterprises is one of the current hot topics in theoretical and practical circles. This paper selects panel data of listed companies with high energy consumption from 2007 to 2019 and adopts a threshold-regression method to empirically test the impact of digitalization level on corporate carbon emission reduction It turns out that the digitalization level of enterprises has both an “inverted U” effect and a heterogeneous effect on carbon emissions. Enterprise technological innovation has both a threshold action and a regulating action on the influence of digitalization level on carbon emissions. It can play a role in accelerating the digitalization level to the inhibition of the increase in carbon emissions in advance and has a reinforcing effect in accelerating the reduction of enterprise carbon emissions.

Keywords: digital level; highly energy-intensive enterprises; carbon emissions; technological innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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