The impact of digital transformation and earnings management on ESG performance: evidence from Chinese listed enterprises.

ABSTRACT: The improvement of enterprise ESG performance is one of the key driving forces to achieve the goal of economic and social green development. There is a gap between knowledge and practice in the ESG performance of Chinese enterprises, and digital transformation (DT) provides new ideas for ESG development. The research purpose of this paper is to explore the impact mechanism of DT on ESG and the specific path of DT to drive ESG. It provides a reference for listed enterprises to rely on DT to empower their sustainable development capability. This paper takes the panel data of A-share listed enterprises from 2011 to 2021 as the sample and measures the core indicators using the text mining method, modified Jones model, and Roy-Chowdhury model. On this basis, using a combination of econometric m

SUBMITTER: Wang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10774430 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature