Digital Transformation and Enterprise Sustainability: The Moderating Role of Regional Virtual Agglomeration

As digital transformation reshapes the world, businesses are becoming increasingly concerned about its impact. This study examines the regional data of 29 provinces and cities in China from 2013 to 2020 and uses the entropy method to calculate the regional virtual agglomeration level. This paper ana...

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Collaboration
Cooperation
Digital economy
Economic development
Economic growth
Economic impact
Efficiency
Impact analysis
Information technology
Knowledge sharing
Product development
Production planning
Regional development
Strategic management
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Sustainable development
Technology transfer
Transformations
Virtual reality
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