战略性新兴企业碳责任对双元创新的非线性影响：数字化转型的调节效应

The nonlinear impact of strategic emerging firms' carbon responsibility on ambidextrous innovation: The moderating effect of digital transformation

摘要:

在“双碳”战略实施如火如荼、数字经济蓬勃发展的背景下，研究战略性新兴企业履行碳责任能否促进双元创新关系到中国生态文明建设和经济高质量发展。借助压力-创造力模型，探究战略性新兴企业碳责任对双元创新的影响，并考察数字化转型的调节作用。选取2020-2022年我国战略性新兴行业上市公司为研究样本进行实证检验。研究发现：（1）战略性新兴企业碳责任对渐进性创新和突破性创新均产生显著的U型影响。（2）设施数字化、业务数字化与技术数字化强化了战略性新兴企业碳责任与渐进性创新和突破性创新间的关系。（3）异质性分析发现，相比国有企业，战略性新兴企业碳责任与渐进性创新和突破性创新之间的U型关系在非国有企业中更显著。上述结论经过稳健性检验后依旧成立。本研究对厘清战略性新兴企业碳责任与双元创新间的关系提供了经验证据，也为数字经济高速发展与“双碳”背景下企业积极推进数字化转型、兼顾碳责任履行和双元创新能力提升提供有益借鉴。

Abstract:

In the current context of the vigorous implementation of the "dual carbon" strategy and the flourishing development of the digital economy, studying whether strategic emerging enterprises can fulfill their carbon responsibilities and promote ambidextrous innovation is related to China's ecological civilization construction and high-quality economic development. Using the pressure creativity model, explore the impact of carbon responsibility of strategic emerging enterprises on ambidextrous innovation, and examine the moderating effect of digital transformation. Selecting Chinese strategic emerging industry listed companies from 2020 to 2022 as research samples for empirical testing. Research has found that: (1) The carbon responsibility of strategic emerging enterprises has a significant U-shaped impact on incremental and breakthrough innovation. (2) The digitalization of facilities, business and technology have strengthened the relationship between carbon responsibility and incremental innovation and the relationship between carbon responsibility and breakthrough innovation in strategic emerging enterprises. (3) Heterogeneity analysis found that compared to state-owned enterprises, the U-shaped relationship between carbon responsibility of strategic emerging enterprises and incremental and breakthrough innovation is more significant in non-state-owned enterprises. The above conclusion still holds after robustness testing. This study provides empirical evidence for clarifying the relationship between carbon responsibility and ambidextrous innovation in strategic emerging enterprises, and also provides useful reference for enterprises to actively promote digital transformation, balance carbon responsibility fulfillment, and enhance ambidextrous innovation capabilities in the context of rapid development of the digital economy and "dual carbon".