Xu Hang
(School of Business Administration, Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing 100070)
Abstract: The application scope of digital technology is becoming increasingly widespread, and its value across various industries is gradually being recognized. The impact of digital transformation on enterprises extends beyond industrial restructuring and internal resource optimization—it further shapes enterprise resilience, enabling companies to respond to market competition with greater subjective initiative. The academic field has also witnessed a surge in research on how digital transformation affects enterprise resilience. Existing studies by numerous scholars indicate that digital transformation is a crucial prerequisite for building enterprise resilience. Based on this, this paper collects panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2015 to 2019 to examine the impact of digital transformation on enterprise resilience across different regions. After data collection, the entropy method is used for weighted calculations, and a fixed-effects model is constructed to explore the relationship between enterprise resilience and digital transformation. The findings reveal that digital transformation has dual effects on enterprise resilience. In the positive effect, enterprise resilience is enhanced, along with the ability to cope with market uncertainties; in the negative effect, enterprises may face survival challenges, with severe cases leading to market exit.
Keywords: digital transformation; enterprise resilience; entropy method