Do political connections facilitate or inhibit firms’ digital transformation? Evidence from China’s A-share private listed companies

• Xingye Jin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xingye Jin, Tao Li, Yupeng Shi, Mingrui Zhang

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China, China Center for Internet Economy Research, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0493-421X

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• Tao Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xingye Jin, Tao Li, Yupeng Shi, Mingrui Zhang

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China, China Center for Internet Economy Research, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China

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• Yupeng Shi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xingye Jin, Tao Li, Yupeng Shi, Mingrui Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China, China Center for Internet Economy Research, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4403-4566

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• Mingrui Zhang

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xingye Jin, Tao Li, Yupeng Shi, Mingrui Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: zhangmingrui91@163.com

  Affiliation School of Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1940-4894

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