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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Assessing the Impact of Big Data on Green
Innovation Resilience in Manufacturing
Enterprises: Evidence from China's National
Big Data Comprehensive Pilot Zone
1
School of Economics and Management, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
Submission date: 2024-07-08
Final revision date: 2024-09-03
Acceptance date: 2024-09-29
Online publication date: 2024-12-20
Publication date: 2025-11-04
Corresponding author
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2025;34(6):7805-7818
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ABSTRACT
Given the tightening constraints on environmental resources and rising external uncertainties, it
is crucial for the manufacturing industry to build resilience against external disruptions and enhance
its green innovation resilience (GIR). Big data, as a transformative force for green and low-carbon
development in the new era, presents a valuable opportunity to boost GIR in manufacturing enterprises.
Understanding how to leverage big data to strengthen GIR is essential for achieving sustainable
development. This study uses China's national big data comprehensive pilot zone (NBDCPZ) policy
as a natural experiment, applying difference-in-differences and mediation effect models to examine
the policy's impact on manufacturing GIR and its underlying mechanisms. The results indicate that
big data significantly enhances the GIR of manufacturing enterprises, with more pronounced effects
observed in non-state-owned enterprises, non-heavy polluting enterprises, and enterprises located in
the eastern region of China. Mechanism analysis indicates that big data improves GIR by increasing
investor attention, raising public environmental awareness, and enhancing enterprises’ risk-bearing
capacity. The finding suggests that expanding the scope of NBDCPZ policy pilot zones, improving big
data service platforms, and tailoring policies to the specific characteristics of enterprises are essential
for fully realizing the benefits of big data. This study provides valuable insights for advancing GIR in
the manufacturing sector and innovating big data economic policies.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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