Digital Transformation Empowers Green Innovation in Manufacturing: Strategic Synergy and Implementation Pathways of Geely Group
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Confronted by the dual imperatives of global carbon neutrality commitments and digital transformation trends, compounded by China’s “dual carbon” strategy and digital technological revolution, manufacturing enterprises face a critical challenge to synergize low-carbon development with digitalization. Drawing on strategic synergy and dynamic capabilities theories, this study adopts a single-case approach, focusing on Geely Group, to systematically analyze its dual-driven strategic architecture and implementation pathways integrating digitalization and green low-carbon transitions. Findings reveal that Geely has constructed a bidirectionally enabling and closed-loop iterative transformation model through a four-dimensional mechanism: strategic guidance, organizational enabling, technological fusion, and ecosystem collaboration. Specifically, digital technologies serve as precise instruments for carbon reduction in production, energy management, and green product innovation, while green low-carbon objectives, in turn, drive deeper integration of digital technologies in R&D and applications. Theoretically, this study uncovers a synergistic coupling effect achieved through strategic design of digital and green transformations, overcoming the theoretical limitations of isolated transition paradigms and offering an integrated analytical framework for understanding “dual-transformation synergy.” Practically, it provides actionable synergistic strategies and implementation pathways for manufacturing enterprises navigating carbon neutrality and digitalization pressures, contributing a contextually relevant Chinese solution with theoretical and practical implications.
Source: Global Sustainability Research
Authors: Wei Xiao, Hongmin Liu, Yingchen Liu, Haiming Yu
Institution: Zhejiang University of Science and Technology
Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7160090024
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