Does Informatization Promote Green Total Factor Productivity Growth of Logistics Industry in China?

Abstract

Abstract: Based on China’s provincial panel data from 2009 to 2019, this paper empirically examines the influence effect of informatization on the green total factor productivity (GTFP) of the logistics industry and its transmission path. The results show that during the research period, GTFP of the logistics industry achieves an average annual growth of 5.5%, and informatization plays a significant promoting role in it. The influence of informatization on GTFP of the logistics industry presents significant temporal and spatial heterogeneous effects. From the perspective of the transmission path, informatization accelerates logistics technological innovation through diffusion and integration effects, promotes technological progress in the logistics industry, and serves as the main driving force for the growth of GTFP of the logistics industry. Informatization promotes the improvement of pure technical efficiency through integration effects, but the scale effect is not yet obvious. Moreover, informatization has a certain inhibitory effect on the improvement of scale efficiency. The promotion effect of informatization on pure technical efficiency is greater than the inhibitory effect on scale efficiency. The final result leads to a significant promoting effect of informatization on the improvement of the technical efficiency of the logistics industry, thereby promoting the growth of GTFP of the logistics industry. The degree of application of information technology has a significant threshold effect in the process of informatization influencing the growth of GTFP of the logistics industry. When the depth and breadth of the application of information technology reach a certain threshold value, the promoting effect of informatization on GTFP of the logistics industry significantly enhances.

Key words: informatization, logistics industry, green total factor productivity

Wang Chunhao, Ma Jun, Ma Yuwen, Zhang Jie. Does Informatization Promote Green Total Factor Productivity Growth of Logistics Industry in China?[J]. Management Review, 2025, 37(8): 233-247.

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