Slack Resources, Digital Transformation, and Enterprise Green Innovation

Slack Resources, Digital Transformation, and Enterprise Green Innovation | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Article Slack Resources, Digital Transformation, and Enterprise Green Innovation Yuan-Yuan YU, Yu WEI, Xuezhou WEN This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6674243/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Under Review Version 1 posted 14 You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract Slack resources are an important foundation for enterprises to innovate green. Taking the A-share manufacturing companies listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen of China from 2011 to 2021 as the research sample, we explore the impact of different slack resources on enterprise green innovation. The empirical results show that: absorbed slack resources, unabsorbed slack resources and enterprise green innovation have an inverted U-shaped relationship; enterprise digital transformation plays a partly mediating role in the relationship between absorbed slack resources, unabsorbed slack resources and enterprise green innovation; environmental regulation positively moderates the inverted U-shape relationship between absorbed slack resources, unabsorbed slack resources and enterprise green innovation; and further analysis reveals that the relationship between absorbed slack resources, unabsorbed slack resources and enterprise green innovation is inverted U-shape. Further analysis reveals that the inverted U-shaped relationship between absorbed slack resources, unabsorbed slack resources, and enterprise green innovation is more significant in firms with a lower average age of management and a higher degree of peer group of green innovation. The results of the study provide a theoretical basis and practical guidance for the manufacturing industry to utilize slack resources to actively carry out green innovation in line with the development of the digital economy. Business and commerce/Business and management Social science/Business and management slack resources green innovation digital transformation environmental regulation Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. 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