Do customer ESG performance affect supplier innovation? Evidence from China's listed firms

Yonghui Lian, Xiaoyue He and Jieying Gao

Economics Letters, 2023, vol. 233, issue C

Abstract: In the context of the growing importance of sustainable supply chain management, we investigate the impact of customer ESG performance on supplier innovation using a paired sample of Chinese customer-supplier data from 2009 to 2020. The results show that favorable customer ESG performance is positively associated with supplier innovation, and the association is particularly pronounced when the supplier is more digitally transformed or geographically closer to the customer.

Keywords: Supply chain; ESG performance; Innovation; Digital transformation; Geographical proximity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 G34 O36 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111372

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