Impact of Digital Transformation on the Competitiveness of Agriculture-related EnterprisesFrom the Perspective of Enterprise Heterogeneity

Digital transformation has become an important means of transforming and upgrading traditional kinetic energy and cultivating and growing new kinetic energy, which also brings opportunities and challenges to the development of agriculture-related enterprises. The impact mechanism of digital transformation on the competitiveness of agriculture-related enterprises is analysed at the theoretical level, and its impact effects are also empirically tested. The study finds that, at the theoretical level, digital transformation enhances the competitiveness of agriculture-related enterprises by improving productivity, product competitiveness and market responsiveness; in the empirical test, the results of the benchmark regression confirm that digital transformation has a significant positive effect on the competitiveness of agriculture-related enterprises, and the regression results after controlling for model endogeneity, replacing regression samples and changing estimation methods consistently support this conclusion. The results of the regressions, controlling for model endogeneity, replacing regressions and changing estimation methods, consistently support this conclusion, suggesting that digital transformation has indeed improved the competitiveness of agriculture-related enterprises. Furthermore, this effect is significantly heterogeneous in terms of the nature of ownership, firm size and firm age, but not in terms of significant regional heterogeneity.