华东师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版) ›› 2025, Vol. 57 ›› Issue (1): 146-165.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2025.01.014

• 中国式现代化:促进公司治理与发展 • 上一篇    下一篇

CEO个体特征对企业数字化转型重要吗?——来自上市公司层面的经验证据

董直庆, 王璐   

  • 接受日期:2024-12-23 出版日期:2025-01-15 发布日期:2025-01-24
  • 作者简介:董直庆,华东师范大学经济与管理学院教授(上海,200062)
    王璐,华东师范大学经济与管理学院博士生
  • 基金资助:
    国家社科基金重点项目“人工智能技术红利分配均等性与企业成长方向问题研究”(项目编号:24AJY029);教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地重大项目“新阶段共同富裕视域下技术创新推动的经济增长动力研究”(项目编号:22JJD790019);中央高校基本科研业务费项目华东师范大学哲学社会科学创新团队重点项目“人工智能应用与大数据统计创新团队”(项目编号:2024QKT003)。

Do Individual Characteristics of CEO Matter for Corporate Digital Transformation? Empirical Evidence from the Listed Companies in China

Zhiqing Dong, Lu Wang   

  • Accepted:2024-12-23 Online:2025-01-15 Published:2025-01-24

摘要:

以往研究较为关注新兴技术对企业数字化转型的冲击,却往往忽视企业数字化转型背后的微观基础及其差异化成因。有鉴于此,以2007—2022年沪深A股上市公司为样本,从企业高管视角考察CEO个体特征在企业数字化转型过程中所扮演的角色,以及不同约束条件下CEO对企业数字化转型的影响差异,结果发现:CEO对企业数字化转型存在显著影响,其中CEO的性别、年龄、学历、任期、专业背景均会扮演重要角色,而且不同约束条件诸如营商环境、第一大股东所有权性质和企业规模均会带来差异化影响。进一步分析CEO推动企业数字化转型可能引发的经济后果,发现企业的数字化水平越高越易于提高自身的全要素生产率,而且会对供应链上下游节点企业形成数字涟漪效应。这些发现对于加速推动企业数字化转型,具有重要的政策启示。

关键词: CEO个体特征, 企业数字化转型, 上市公司, 全要素生产率, 数字涟漪效应

Abstract:

Previous studies have paid more attention to the impact of emerging technologies on corporate digital transformation, but often neglected the micro-foundations behind corporate digital transformation and its differentiated causes. In view of this, taking the A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2007 to 2022 as a sample, this paper examines the role of CEO characteristics in the process of corporate digital transformation from the perspective of corporate executives, as well as the consequences of different constraints on the CEO’s preference for corporate digital transformation. The results show that there is a significant impact of CEO on corporate digital transformation, in which CEO’s gender, age, education, tenure, and professional background all play important roles, and different constraints such as the business environment, the nature of the ownership of the first major shareholder, and the difference in enterprise size also form a significant differentiated impact. Further analysis of the economic consequences of CEO’s driving digital transformation reveals that a higher level of digitization makes it easier for a firm to increase its total factor productivity and create a digital ripple effect on upstream and downstream nodes in the supply chain. These findings have important policy implications for accelerating corporate digital transformation.

Key words: characteristics of CEO, corporate digital transformation, listed companies, total factor productivity, digital ripples