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https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2094440
Can Internet construction promote enterprise upgrading?
Hui Xie
Shengying Yang
Yang Liu
Minghua Li
Sažetak
This paper investigates the impact of Internet infrastructure construction
on enterprise transformation and upgrading and the
underlying mechanisms using a progressive double difference
model based on a quasi-natural experiment of the Chinese government’s
"broadband China" policy by matching A-share listed
companies and city panel data from 2008–2019 in Shanghai and
Shenzhen. The conclusions show that the "broadband China" policy
can significantly promote the transformation and upgrading of
enterprises in pilot cities. However, its effect shows a diminishing
marginal contribution, and the policy is more effective for traditional
manufacturing industries during the implementation
period. Enhancing human capital and reducing internal transaction
costs are two important channels for Internet infrastructure
construction to help enterprises transform and upgrade.
Combined with the life cycle theory, we find that the "broadband
China" policy has the most significant impact on changing and
upgrading enterprises in the growth and maturity stages, especially
those in the manufacturing industry, but not those in the
maturity and decline stages of the service industry. Finally, a series
of robustness tests using Monte Carlo simulation, entropy balance
method, and instrumental variables method, excluding other
factors, show that the findings are still robust.
Ključne riječi
Internet infrastructure construction; transformation and upgrading; broadband China; enterprise life cycle
Hrčak ID:
304204
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.3.2023.
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