Digital Empowerment and Supply Chain Resilience Reconstruction

Improving regional supply chain resilience is crucial for achieving high-quality growth, especially in light of complicated international dynamics and national security strategies. This study focuses on a sample of A-share listed enterprises from six central provinces between 2013 and 2023, primarily employing a fixed-effects model to investigate the mechanisms through which corporate digital transformation influences supply chain resilience and its differentiated performance across regional heterogeneity. Findings reveal that digital transformation improves corporate supply chain resilience, both directly and indirectly by reducing supply chain concentration. Heterogeneity analysis indicates that this effect is more pronounced in non-state-owned enterprises, non-digital economy industries, larger-scale enterprises, and firms located in the Yangtze River Midstream Urban Agglomeration. Comparative analysis shows that digitalization’s impact on supply chain resilience in the central region is still in its early stages, compared to the eastern coastline provinces. The paper identifies two methods by which digital transformation affects supply chain resilience, offering theoretical foundations and practical recommendations for developing diversified regional industrial policies and driving supply chain modernization in the central area.