物流企业数字化转型如何影响其ESG表现

How Digital Transformation of Logistics Firms Affects Their ESG Performance

摘要: 如今ESG概念已经成为准确评估企业的环境绩效和衡量企业的可持续发展表现的科学方式，日益受到理论界与实践界的关注。物流企业的数字化转型会对其各个方面产生至关重要的影响，但目前数字化转型对于企业ESG表现的影响机理尚不清楚。因此，文章通过模糊集定性比较分析(fsQCA)方法，对2023年上市的物流相关企业进行了fsQCA分析，以探究数字化转型对物流企业ESG表现的影响，研究发现：(1) 任何时期单一要素并不足以构成物流企业高ESG表现产生的必要条件；(2) 存在战略突出型、多因组合型和单因主导型3种高ESG表现驱动模式；(3) 文章剖析了物流相关企业数字化完善ESG表现和推动可持续发展的可行路径，旨在明晰物流企业如何通过数字化转型来更好地实现其ESG绩效。

Abstract: Nowadays, the ESG concept has become a scientific way to accurately assess a company’s environmental performance and measure its sustainability performance, which has increasingly attracted attention from both the theoretical and practical communities. The digital transformation of logistics enterprises will have a crucial impact on all aspects of them, but the mechanism of the impact of digital transformation on the ESG performance of enterprises is still unclear. Therefore, the article conducted fsQCA analysis on logistics-related companies listed in 2023 through the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method to explore the impact of digital transformation on the ESG performance of logistics companies, and found that: (1) a single element at any period of time is not sufficient to constitute a necessary condition for the emergence of a logistics company’s high ESG performance; (2) there are three high ESG performance driver paths: strategic prominence, multi-causal combination and single-causal dominance; (3) the article analyzes the feasible paths for logistics-related enterprises to digitally improve ESG performance and promote sustainable development, aiming to clarify how logistics enterprises can better achieve their ESG performance through digital transformation.