From Policy Catalysis to Market Relay: A Tripartite Evolutionary Game Study on Digital-Green Synergy in E-Commerce

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🔬研究者:Provides a tripartite game model that integrates platform transparency mechanisms, useful for further studies on digital sustainability governance.

🏢実務担当者:Highlights the role of platform transparency in enabling green transformation; companies can leverage blockchain and carbon labeling to build consumer trust and avoid greenwashing accusations.

🏛政策担当者:Suggests that government intervention can be temporary and that market forces, via product value and transparency, can sustain digital-green synergy, informing phased policy design.

Against the backdrop of a technological revolution centered on green and low-carbon development, the deep integration of digitalization and greening has become a core engine for high-quality progress. Moving beyond linear perspectives of environmental governance, this study constructs tripartite evolutionary game models to dissect the strategic interactions among government, enterprises, and consumers. Focusing on the institutional context of e-commerce, we examine how platform-enabled transparency mechanisms (e.g., blockchain traceability and carbon labeling) shape these interactions through key parameters: greenwashing detection (θ), premium loss coefficient (η), and information screening cost (CD). The analysis reveals that the long-term trajectory is fundamentally determined by the intrinsic economic viability of corporate transformation. Government intervention acts as an equilibrium selector, influencing the speed of convergence, while product value (consumer utility and premium) and platform transparency determine the sustainability of the equilibrium. Critically, the tripartite model shows that the optimal outcome—full enterprise transformation and consumer adoption—can be achieved without sustained government intervention when product fundamentals are sufficiently attractive. This demonstrates the potential for market self-regulation to sustain digital–green synergy. The study makes three contributions: it captures the full tripartite feedback loop, reveals the saturation effect of policy intensity, and embeds platform transparency mechanisms into an evolutionary framework. The findings reframe the government’s role as a temporary enabler and position e-commerce platforms as key governance intermediaries, offering a theoretical basis for adaptive governance strategies in digital commerce.

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