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Digital Economy and Green Development: Toward Environmental Sustainability

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 March 2023) | Viewed by 2575

Special Issue Editors

1. School of Digital Economics and Management, Wuxi University, Wuxi 214105, China
2. Institute of Free Trade Zone, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Interests: digital economy; green economy; industrial economy; technology innovation

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School of Digital Economics and Management, Wuxi University, Wuxi 214105, China
Interests: human resource management; digital economy

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Dear Colleagues,

The world has entered the era of the digital economy, which engenders precise producer–consumer connections. Market participants can quickly and accurately match market supply and demand. Doing so reduces search costs and transaction costs, accelerates information retrieval, and lowers resource input and consumption. At the same time, the digital economy features abundant infrastructure construction based on digital technology; examples include digital base stations, data centers, 5G networks, and industrial Internet. These facilities consume vast power. The digital economy also remains in its infancy, especially in conventional industries. Coordinated development of the digital economy and green economy is urgently needed to promote sustainability. Enhancing digital technology innovation, fostering enterprises’ digital transformation, expediting traditional industries’ digital penetration, enhancing the energy efficiency of digital infrastructure, and encouraging green technology advances can prompt such coordinated development. This Special Issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the state of knowledge regarding links between the digital economy and green development. Papers addressing the coordinated development of both are invited for potential inclusion in this issue.

Submissions related to the following topics are welcome, but not limited to:

  • Digital economy and carbon emissions;
  • Digital economy and energy efficiency;                                                                                               
  • Digital economy and regional green development;
  • Digital Finance and green development;
  • Digital trade and green development;
  • Cross-border e-commerce and green development;
  • Digital technology and green technology innovation;
  • Digital marketing and green development;
  • Human resource management for the coordinated development of digital economy and green economy;
  • Global/regional/organizational cooperation for the coordinated development of digital economy and green economy.

Dr. Jun Liu
Dr. Juan Liu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • digital economy
  • carbon emissions
  • energy efficiency
  • regional green development
  • digital finance
  • digital trade
  • cross-border e-commerce
  • digital technology
  • green technology innovation
  • digital marketing
  • human resource management
  • global/regional/organizational

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20 pages, 1463 KiB  
Article
Impacts of Digital Information Management Systems on Green Transformation of Manufacturing Enterprises
by Zeyan Miao and Guohao Zhao
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(3), 1840; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20031840 - 19 Jan 2023
Cited by 3 | Viewed by 2209
Abstract
Under the background of increasingly prominent environmental problems, the establishment and application of digital information management systems established by the digital economy have brought new opportunities and challenges to the green transformation of manufacturing enterprises. Considering the micro level of Chinese manufacturing enterprises, [...] Read more.
Under the background of increasingly prominent environmental problems, the establishment and application of digital information management systems established by the digital economy have brought new opportunities and challenges to the green transformation of manufacturing enterprises. Considering the micro level of Chinese manufacturing enterprises, does the adoption of information management systems really promote the improvement of the green transformation level of manufacturing enterprises? This paper takes the adoption of digital information management systems by China’s enterprises as a “quasi natural” experiment and uses the Difference-in-Difference and Propensity Score Matching model (PSM-DID) to explore its impact on the green transformation of manufacturing enterprises and its mechanism. The study found that the adoption of digital information management systems by enterprises significantly improved the green transformation level of manufacturing enterprises, especially the symbolic green transformation level, and had no significant positive effect on the substantive green transformation level. The mechanism analysis shows that manufacturing enterprises can achieve green transformation by adopting information management systems to improve the digital level, strengthen green innovation ability, and increase the redundant resources of enterprises. The heterogeneity analysis based on the internal governance and external environment of enterprises shows that the adoption of digital information management systems by manufacturing enterprises has significantly improved the green transformation level of non-state-owned enterprises, enterprises with high corporate governance, non-heavily polluting enterprises, and enterprises in the eastern region. The research conclusion enriches the research related to digitalization and green transformation of enterprises and has important inspiration for Chinese manufacturing enterprises to use digitalization capabilities to seek green sustainable development under the wave of digital economy development. Full article
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