数字化转型对涉农企业竞争力的影响——基于企业异质性视角

Impact of Digital Transformation on the Competitiveness of Agriculture-Related Firms:From the Perspective of Firm Heterogeneity

数字化转型已经成为改造提升传统动能、培育壮大新动能的重要手段,也为涉农企业的发展带来了新的机遇和挑战。从理论层面剖析了数字化转型对涉农企业竞争力的影响机制,同时对其影响效应进行了实证检验。研究发现:理论层面,数字化转型通过提高生产效率、提升产品竞争力以及增强市场应对能力,从而提升了涉农企业竞争力水平;实证层面,基准回归结果证实了数字化转型对涉农企业竞争力具有显著正向促进作用,且在控制模型内生性、替换回归样本和改变估计方法后的回归结果均支持该结论。由此表明,数字化转型确实提升了涉农企业竞争力水平。此外,这种影响在企业规模、企业年龄等方面存在显著异质性,但并不存在对于企业所在地区的显著异质性。

Digital transformation has become an important means of transforming and upgrading traditional growth drivers and of fostering and expanding new growth drivers,and has also brought new opportunities and challenges to the development of agriculture-related firms.The paper analyzes the impact mechanism of digital transformation on the competitiveness of agriculture-related firms at the theoretical level,and makes an empirical test of its impact effects.The findings are as follows.Theoretically,digital transformation enhances the competitiveness of agriculturerelated firms by improving their productivity,product competitiveness and market responsiveness;in the empirical test,the results of baseline regression analysis confirm that digital transformation has a significant positive effect on the competitiveness of agriculture-related firms,and the regression results support this conclusion after controlling the endogeneity of the model,replacing the regression samples and changing the estimation method.This shows that digital transformation has indeed improved the competitiveness of agriculture-related firms.Furthermore,this effect is significantly heterogeneous in terms of the size and age of firms,but there is no significant heterogeneity in the regions where the firms are located.