ESG责任履行利于企业核心竞争力提升吗?OA北大核心CHSSCDCSSCICSTPCD

The enhancement of core competitiveness is a crucial lever for China to break through the key bottleneck technologies and strengthen enterprises'global competitiveness.Against the backdrop of increasing emphasis,environmental,social,and governance(ESG)responsibility fulfillment is becoming a strategic factor in enhancing corporate core competitiveness.Based on the data of A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2009 to 2022,this paper discusses the relationship between ESG responsibility fulfillment and corporate core competitiveness,along with its mechanisms. The findings show that ESG responsibility fulfillment significantly enhances core competitiveness by improving existing and potential core competitiveness levels.The mechanism is that ESG responsibility fulfillment affects corporate core competitiveness mainly through three channels:alleviating financing constraints,enhancing R&D investment,and improving human capital.Facing fierce market competition,actively fulfilling ESG responsibilities and safeguarding stakeholders'interests can resolve information asymmetry and principal-agent problems and comprehensively improve production efficiency and innovation capabilities.Extended research indicates that ESG responsibility fulfillment can improve enterprises'green core competitiveness and drive their green transformation,which is crucial for achieving the strategic goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality("dual carbon"goals)and high-quality development.At the same time,the promotion effect of ESG responsibility fulfillment on green core competitiveness is mainly achieved by green technological innovation,which provides a key focus for enterprises to explore green transformation.Therefore,it is suggested that the government should guide enterprises to deepen ESG responsibility fulfillment,unblock the channels to enhance core competitiveness,and promote ESG responsibility fulfillment and government environmental regulation to complement each other,so as to jointly promote the green transformation of enterprises. The marginal contributions are threefold.First,this paper integrates ESG responsibility fulfillment and core competitiveness into the same analytical framework,which enriches the research on the economic effects of ESG responsibility fulfillment and provides a new analytical perspective for improving core competitiveness.Second,in terms of the mechanism,this paper proposes and verifies three channels by which ESG responsibility fulfillment enhances core competitiveness,which provides insights for enterprises to achieve long-term development.Third,this paper constructs a core competitiveness indicator by integrating existing and potential core competitiveness levels,providing a new approach to the quantitative analysis of core competitiveness.It further constructs green core competitiveness indicators,confirming that ESG responsibility fulfillment helps enterprises pursue green technology upgrades,enhance their green core competitiveness,and foster experience and confidence to achieve green transformation.