Dialect diversity and enterprise digital transformation

Jin Yan, Zuowen Li and Yanru Li

Finance Research Letters, 2025, vol. 82, issue C

Abstract: This paper employs panel data from Chinese listed enterprises to empirically examine the impact of dialect diversity on enterprise digital transformation. The results reveal that dialect diversity exerts a substantial negative effect on enterprise digital transformation. The underlying mechanisms highlight the critical rules of financing constraints and human capital accumulation in this process. Specifically, dialect diversity is shown to hinder enterprise digital transformation by intensifying financing constraints and impeding human capital accumulation. Heterogeneity further indicates that dialect diversity has a greater inhibiting effect on the digital transformation of small and non-state enterprises.

Keywords: Dialect diversity; Enterprise digital transformation; Financing constraints; Human capital accumulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2025.107653

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