{"title":"Environmental governance shock and industrial intelligence upgrading: Insights from machine-labor substitution","authors":"Yaqi Wan , Zhensheng Li","doi":"10.1016/j.irfa.2025.104102","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Industrial intelligent upgrading is an inherent requirement for enterprise development and an urgent need for green economic transformation. From the perspective of machine-labor substitution by Chinese manufacturing enterprises, this study explores the causal relationship between environmental regulation and industrial robot adoption. Utilizing the partially linear functional-coefficient model, this paper further reveals the moderating role of asset size in intelligent upgrading. The findings indicate that with the capital deepening, the effect of environmental regulation on industrial robot investment shifts from insignificant to positively significant. However, the heterogeneous results reveal an unexpected consequence that this impact is more salient for non-polluting enterprises rather than for polluting enterprises which are more targeted by the environmental governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48226,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Financial Analysis","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 104102"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Review of Financial Analysis","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057521925001899","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/3/10 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Industrial intelligent upgrading is an inherent requirement for enterprise development and an urgent need for green economic transformation. From the perspective of machine-labor substitution by Chinese manufacturing enterprises, this study explores the causal relationship between environmental regulation and industrial robot adoption. Utilizing the partially linear functional-coefficient model, this paper further reveals the moderating role of asset size in intelligent upgrading. The findings indicate that with the capital deepening, the effect of environmental regulation on industrial robot investment shifts from insignificant to positively significant. However, the heterogeneous results reveal an unexpected consequence that this impact is more salient for non-polluting enterprises rather than for polluting enterprises which are more targeted by the environmental governance.
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The International Review of Financial Analysis (IRFA) is an impartial refereed journal designed to serve as a platform for high-quality financial research. It welcomes a diverse range of financial research topics and maintains an unbiased selection process. While not limited to U.S.-centric subjects, IRFA, as its title suggests, is open to valuable research contributions from around the world.
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