The impact of digital transformation on corporate total factor productivity.

Introduction: Corporates need to break through the dilemma of system and efficiency with the help of digital transformation in the digital economy era. This paper aims to examine the influence of digital transformation on corporate total factor productivity by investigating whether and how corporate technical cooperation and ESG performance mediate and moderate the relationship between them.

Methods: This study choose Chinese A-share listed manufacturing firms from 2016-2020 as the research sample and use the FGLS regression model to test the proposed hypotheses.