经济与管理研究2025，Vol.46Issue(6)：24-43,20.DOI:10.13502/j.cnki.issn1000-7636.2025.06.002
企业家精神如何引领中小企业数字化转型?
How does Entrepreneurship Lead Digital Transformation of SMEs?
摘要
Abstract
Entrepreneurship has become a key factor leading the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises(SMEs)and an important driving force for achieving high-quality economic development.By constructing a comprehensive evaluation index of entrepreneurship in the new era,this paper empirically examines the effect of entrepreneurship on the digital transformation of SMEs from 2011 to 2021 and its mechanisms,taking Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listed SMEs as the research object. The findings show that entrepreneurship can promote the digital transformation of SMEs.This conclusion still holds after endogeneity treatment and robustness tests.The mechanism tests indicate that entrepreneurship promotes digital transformation by mitigating managerial myopia,improving internal control quality,enhancing risk-taking ability,and strengthening the support for corporate talent.However,it fails to drive the accumulation of corporate technological capital.Further analysis reveals that among entrepreneurial dimensions,the spirit of innovation exerts the strongest influence.Additionally,entrepreneurship can drive digital transformation in mature SMEs,those with higher initial digitization levels,and high-tech enterprises.However,its impact is limited in SMEs in growth or decline stages,enterprises with lower initial digitization levels,and non-high-tech enterprises.Moreover,the synergy between entrepreneurship and external policies can effectively promote the digital transformation of SMEs.Entrepreneurship-driven digital transformation can improve SMEs'total factor productivity,thus promoting their high-quality development,and this effect persists and gradually increases over time.On this basis,this paper proposes relevant recommendations,including creating an excellent development environment,increasing technological support,and enhancing policy support for transformation. The possible contributions of this paper are threefold.First,this paper reveals the role of entrepreneurship in leading SMEs'digital transformation from the dimensions of motivation empowerment,ability empowerment,and technical talent empowerment,expanding the research on the antecedents of enterprises'digital transformation decision-making.Second,by designing a heterogeneity analysis framework covering life cycle stages,initial digitalization levels,and different industries,this paper systematically investigates whether entrepreneurship provides timely assistance or adds the finishing touch in SMEs'digital transformation,providing empirical evidence for targeted policy implementation.Third,by clarifying the connotation of entrepreneurship in the new era,this paper designs a comprehensive evaluation index system of entrepreneurship based on the four dimensions of spirit of innovation,spirit of integrity,responsibility and commitment,and global vision,which enriches the theoretical and measurement research of entrepreneurship in the new era.关键词
企业家精神/数字化转型/中小企业/高质量发展/高新技术企业Key words
entrepreneurship/digital transformation/SMEs/high-quality development/high-tech enterprise分类
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王丽君,刘强,徐生霞..企业家精神如何引领中小企业数字化转型?[J].经济与管理研究,2025,46(6):24-43,20.基金项目
国家社会科学基金青年项目"区域经济均衡发展赋能共同富裕的理论、测度与提升策略研究"(23CTJ006) （23CTJ006）
