Digitization, digital convergence and digitalization are well-known terms that have caused a huge impact on the media landscape in the last two decades. The embedded consequences of the increase of free information online or the lack of stable profit...
This study aims to explore how the digital economy contributes to regional green development through the intermediary effect of technological innovation in China. Taking 30 provinces in China as the regional research objects, this study constructed a...
This study explores the effect of the digital economy driving the development of the health industry and the mechanism behind it. Based on the panel data of 27 Chinese provinces from 2014–2021, this paper uses the entropy weight method to const...
In the era of Industry 4.0, digital transformation has become an important strategic choice in driving enterprise development. However, there are few studies on how digital transformation affects the total factor productivity of enterprises. In order...
The Digital Services Act (DSA) represents a landmark regulatory context aiming to secure a safer, trusted and more transparent digital environment. While the DSA establishes a harmonised regulatory framework for intermediary services across the EU, i...
Promoting digital transformation is one of the important directions for the logistics industry to break through the bottleneck of development and achieve high-quality development. This study takes the logistics enterprises listed in China’s A-s...
The digital economy has become an important force driving China’s socio-economic development. From the perspective of sustainable energy development and based on China’s provincial panel data from 2011 to 2020, this paper probes into the...
In Willem van Haecht’s Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest, The Last Judgment by the German artist Hans Rottenhammer stands prominently in the foreground. Signed and dated 1598, it is one of many copper panel paintings Rottenhammer produced and s...
Digital Road is the new direction of rural revitalization, and the digital economy empowers rural revitalization as a new driving force for the sustainable development of agriculture and rural areas. Currently, the studies on the digital economy and...
This paper aims to investigate Google’s role in European media sustainability. In order to understand the implication of this digital intermediary in the news industry, we have analysed all of the projects funded through Google’s DNI Fund from 2016 t...
With the rapid rise in the gig economy driven by advancements in digital technology and financial technology, this study focuses on the work experiences and psychological perceptions of food delivery riders in platform-based employment. This study us...
Rural territories continue to face persistent structural challenges related to depopulation, limited economic diversification, and unequal access to specialized knowledge. Although scientific research and applied expertise are widely recognized as cr...
Public-sector innovation is frequently portrayed as the domain of dedicated innovation labs and experimental units, obscuring how innovation capacity can emerge within core bureaucratic institutions. This article explores how Norway’s Brø...
The ability of A-share listed companies to adhere to the digital economy and achieve long-term corporate benefits amidst an uncertain external environment through financial digital transformation remains a crucial concern for entrepreneurs and schola...
The digital economy is a new economic form that has a significant impact on urban land green use efficiency (ULGUE). With the provincial panel data between 2013 and 2021, this paper empirically tests how the digital economy development level (DEDL) p...
In the context of global warming and the clean energy transition, the rapid development of the digital economy, a highly technology-intensive economic form, has an important impact on the clean energy transition. Examining how the growth of the digit...
Digital inclusive finance (DIF) is a strategic tool that fosters the green transformation of the industrial economy. Based on the data from the 11 provinces and municipalities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China between 2012 and 2021, This pa...
As an emerging product of the coupling of digital technique and traditional finance, digital inclusive finance (DIF) may play a vital role in alleviating the contradiction between economic growth and environmental contamination. This paper utilises t...
Under the new development pattern, promoting urban green transformation efficiently addresses resource and environmental restrictions and is the foundation of high-quality development. However, the development of green transformation in Chinese citie...
Unimpeded domestic inter-regional trade is an inevitable choice for a country to improve its economic development autonomy and internal stability. The booming development of the digital economy profoundly affects inter-regional trade exchanges and th...
The prosperous development of the digital economy can trigger a comprehensive green transformation from factors of production to productivity and production relationships, providing a new path for China to achieve its goals of “peak carbon emis...
To address the pressing challenges facing global agriculture—including resource constraints, structural labour shortages, and climate change adaptation—exploring pathways for digital transformation is crucial for safeguarding regional foo...
Against the backdrop of the dual-carbon goals and the Digital China initiative, the urgent need for enterprises to pursue green innovation and transformation is evident. Supply chain digitalization serves as a critical enabler for enterprises to achi...
The development of digital finance has significantly changed farmer consumption behavior. This study used data from the China Household Finance Survey of 2015, 2017, and 2019 to examine whether digital finance can eliminate consumption inequality amo...
Digital transformation represents a strategic imperative for enterprises pursuing high-performance growth. This study selects A-share listed enterprises from 2014 to 2023 as the research sample and empirically examines the impact of digital transform...
This study explores the impact of digitalization on the performance of insurance intermediaries, who still play a key role in the revenue generation of insurance companies. By using an interdisciplinary approach, this study is the first to examine th...
Traditional business models involve cost, market development, distribution channels, business partnerships, and supply chain management. The development of the digital economy and digital network technology has engendered a shift away from the tradit...
The Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) aims to regulate insurance distribution in the EU regardless of distribution channels and means. Although new technologies affect insurance distribution, the IDD does not explicitly regulate this digital tra...
Financial system reforms are important for developing regions in the period of structural transformation. In the face of climate change, which is an important issue for all mankind. This paper empirically explores the impact of financial structure on...
Amplifying corporate environmental investments is a pivotal strategy for achieving the “carbon peak and carbon neutral” objectives of China’s green development initiative. The digital transformation has the potential to generate new...
In the era of digital economy, digital literacy plays an important role in the process of enabling farmers’ entrepreneurship with digital technology. However, there are few studies in the literature on the impact and mechanism of digital litera...
As the effects of the global ecological and environmental crisis continue to escalate, nations around the world are compelled to explore new economic development models aimed at mitigating environmental damage. As an important driving force for econo...
Digital transformation is increasingly crucial to the upgrading and sustainable development of China’s manufacturing industry with the rapid development of the digital economy. To study the impact of the digital economy on the sustainable devel...
Based on the panel data of 285 prefecture-level cities in China, this paper empirically tests the impact of digital economic development on carbon productivity by using a two-way fixed effect model, intermediary mechanism model and threshold mechanis...
19 February 2022
The digital economy is an important engine to promote sustainable economic growth. Exploring the mechanism by which the digital economy promotes economic development, industrial upgrading and environmental improvement is an issue worth studying. This...
In the era of the digital economy, with the digital and intelligent transformation of the industry, technical complexity, and higher demand for the inter-operability of Industrial Internet platforms, standardization work faces challenges of timelines...
Is digitalization conducive to promoting carbon reduction in cultivated land use while empowering high-quality socio-economic development and intelligent territorial spatial planning? Derived from China’s provincial panel data from the period 2...
From the perspective of firm capability, this study explores the impact of digital intelligence transformation and management innovation on the performance and sustainable development of Chinese firms. On the basis of constructing an evaluation index...
25 January 2023
In the context of China’s “digital power” strategy, the realization of a green and low-carbon shift in manufacturing has become a necessary condition to promote the economy, and the digital factor has increasingly become a new drivi...
Digital transformation has fundamentally reshaped hospitality distribution ecosystems, altering how hotels connect with customers, manage commercial relationships, and access market demand. While early digitalization narratives anticipated a process...
With the rapid development of urbanization, the overall consumption level of rural residents has been improved accordingly in China, and the consumption structure has gradually become perfect. However, in the process of urbanization, it is necessary...
This study explores the impact and mechanism of the digital economy on the tourism service trade. We adopted two-way fixed effects and mediating effects models, and conducted empirical studies based on panel data of 30 provinces (municipalities and a...
Today most insurance is sold by over a million brokers and independent agents acting as intermediaries between the insurance companies and their customers. Digitalization and changing customer behavior have fostered the development of insurtech busin...
High emissions and excessive resource consumption by heavily polluting firms pose significant obstacles to sustainable development. As a strategic tool, digitalization has shown increasing potential to promote sustainable transformation. Existing stu...
The rapid development of China’s digital economy has promoted the digital transformation of Chinese society and become a new driving force for China’s social development. Furthermore, increasing farmers’ income is the central task o...
This paper proves that the development of the digital economy has become a new vector to promote the upgrading of China’s industrial structure. In addition, heterogeneous technological innovation plays an intermediary role in the promotion of the ind...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on payment systems and preferences around the world, reducing the use of cash in favor of digital payment instruments and accelerating the discussion around the need for a central bank digital currency....
24 June 2022
Despite the fact that hackathons and digital innovation contests have emerged as substantial intermediaries in open innovation and entrepreneurship, knowledge about how hackathons and digital innovation contests impact innovation in cities is restric...
The financing difficulty of green innovation projects has always been an obstacle to enterprises’ green innovation. Digital financial inclusion provides a new opportunity to solve the financing difficulty of green innovation. Based on the const...
To be inclusive, smart cities should be built on Industry 4.0 technologies within a quadruple helix model involving governments, academia, industry, and citizens. Innovation intermediaries facilitating collaborative innovation could foster this model...
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