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Keywords

smart service, manufacturing industry, green transformation, integration

Abstract

Against the backdrop of the “double carbon” strategy and the new era of high-quality development, green transformation is an inevitable requirement for high-quality development of the manufacturing industry. The devel-opment and application of new-generation digital technologies such as 5G, cloud computing, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence have fostered the emergence of smart services. It can promote service innovation and business model innovation through the synergy of physical products and digital services, providing a new path for the green transformation of the manufacturing. From the perspective of industry integration, this paper constructs an index system for the integration of smart services industry and manufacturing industry from four dimensions: industrial organization, industrial scale, industrial market development, and industrial technological innovation. It also builds an index system for green transformation effect of the manufacturing industry by fully considering the comprehensive capabilities of enterprises in two aspects “ emission reduction” and “ governance” in their actual green development. On this basis, using statistical data from 2011 to 2019, this paper empirically studies the impact of smart service integration on the green transformation of the manufacturing industry. The results show that during the study period, the overall level of smart service integration in China's manufacturing industry continued to improve. From a multidimensional perspective the integration of smart services grew significantly in the dimensions of industrial scale and industrial technological innovation, while growth in the dimensions of industrial organization and industrial market development was relatively moderate; the integration of smart services can promote the green transformation of the manufacturing industry, and this role of promotion overall demonstrates a non-linear “U-shaped”; among different dimensions of integration, the impact of industrial scale integration is the greatest, while the impact of technological innovation integration shows a rapid growth trend, and the impact of market development integration is relatively weak; the efficiency analysis found that the impact efficiency of smart service integration on the green transformation of manufacturing industry continues to decrease as the level of integration increases, exhibiting the phenomenon of “digital paradox”. After efficiency decomposition, it was found that the reason for this phenomenon is the lack of coordination between technological efficiency and scale efficiency; the heterogeneity analysis showed that the impact of smart service integration on the green transformation of pollution-intensive manufacturing is significantly better than that on clean manufacturing,and its effect efficiency on the green transformation of technology-intensive manufacturing is the highest. Based on the above conclusions, the following policy recommendations are proposed: firstly, improve the green transformation capabilities of the manufacturing industry through smart services.Secondly, strengthen the integration of industrial organization and pay attention to the role of market mechanisms.Thirdly, properly coordinate the relationship between technological upgrading and scale development. The research results provide an important supplement to existing theories on green transformation in manufacturing, offering theoretical support and practical guidance for realizing green transformation in China's manufacturing industry.

DOI

10.16315/j.stm.2023.06.001

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