Sustainability, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 17(8), P. 3308 - 3308
Published: April 8, 2025
For a country like China, which places equal emphasis on economic development and environmental governance, the exploration of potential digital transformation to enhance corporate Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) performance is paramount importance in achieving carbon peak target by 2030. Accordingly, this paper employs two-way fixed-effects model analyze impact ESG performance, based annual data from Chinese listed companies 2014 2023. On basis, we established theoretical framework implemented dual model. The findings argue that materially enhances primarily enhancing resource allocation efficiency narrowing technological gap. research results are confirmed be valid through rigorous robustness testing endogeneity analysis, with evident effects observed large-scale, technology-intensive, asset-intensive, central–eastern regions, high-tech enterprises. This offers both foundations practical insights for pursuing enhancement while also providing valuable point reference policymakers working toward green peaking target.
Language: Английский