Business School, Soochow University, Suzhou 215021, China.
School of Political and Public Administration, Soochow University, Suzhou 215021, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 27;20(3):2274. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20032274.
With the environmental problems brought about by the extensive economic development model attracting more and more global attention, sustainable development has become a hot topic in transformation and development of contemporary enterprises. In the context of the digital economy, there is a lack of conclusive evidence regarding whether and how enterprises rely on digital capabilities to improve green efficiency and achieve sustainable development, especially for new ventures. Therefore, based on the knowledge creation spiral theory, this paper examines the relationship between digital capabilities, green knowledge creation, and sustainable development of new ventures. The study tested its hypotheses on a sample of 316 Chinese new ventures. The results showed that digital capabilities can positively affect environmental, economic, and social performance of new ventures and support their sustainable development; green knowledge creation plays a mediating role in the relationship between digital capabilities and sustainable development, and green pressure positively moderates the relationship between green knowledge creation and sustainable development; furthermore, green pressure also moderates the process of digital capabilities influencing sustainable development through green knowledge creation, and that moderated mediation role is significant. According to the bootstrap mediating effect test, both the direct effect and indirect effect are significant. Overall, our research results provide important insights for new ventures to promote sustainable development through digitalization. Therefore, managers should pay more attention to digital construction in the strategic layout of new ventures, and they should advocate the concept of green knowledge so that the goal of sustainable development can be achieved with the drive for digitalization.
随着广泛的经济发展模式所带来的环境问题引起了越来越多的全球关注，可持续发展已成为当代企业转型和发展的热门话题。在数字经济背景下，关于企业是否以及如何依靠数字能力来提高绿色效率并实现可持续发展，尤其是对于新创企业而言，缺乏确凿的证据。因此，基于知识创造螺旋理论，本文探讨了数字能力、绿色知识创造与新创企业可持续发展之间的关系。本研究在 316 家中国新创企业的样本上检验了其假设。结果表明，数字能力可以积极影响新创企业的环境、经济和社会绩效，支持其可持续发展；绿色知识创造在数字能力与可持续发展之间的关系中起中介作用，绿色压力正向调节绿色知识创造与可持续发展之间的关系；此外，绿色压力还通过绿色知识创造调节数字能力对可持续发展的影响过程，且这种调节中介作用显著。根据 bootstrap 中介效应检验，直接效应和间接效应均显著。总体而言，我们的研究结果为新创企业通过数字化促进可持续发展提供了重要的启示。因此，管理者应在新创企业的战略布局中更加关注数字化建设，倡导绿色知识理念，以数字化为驱动，实现可持续发展的目标。
