Greening the supply chain: How digital transformation shapes environmental sustainability in emerging economies

Rapid supply chain digitalization improves production efficiency in emerging economies, but also intensifies the environmental pressures. This study examines the impact of supply chain digitalization on the ecological footprint in the E-7 economies (China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Indonesia, and Türkiye) over the period 1994–2023. Employing second-generation panel estimators, specifically, the cross-sectionally augmented autoregressive distributed lag and augmented mean group approaches to