Table 1 Literature review summary.

From: From digitalization to green transformation: empirical evidence from RCEP’s industrial sectors

1. Environmental impacts of industrial integration

 Generalized environmental impacts of economic progress

Mahmood et al. (2024), Grossman and Krueger (1992), Ullah et al. (2024), Makarov and Alataş (2024)

 Environmental benefits of service-oriented manufacturing

Rosenberg (1963), Fishbein et al. (2000), Federica et al. (2019), Li et al. (2021), Tang et al. (2022), Huang et al. (2022), Wang et al. (2023), Kohtamäki et al. (2023), Zhang et al. (2024a)

2. The impact of the digital economy on green transformation

 Double-edged sword of digitalization

Higon et al. (2017), Magazzino et al. (2021), Freitag et al. (2021), Zhang et al. (2022), Chatti and Majeed (2022), Evans and Mesagan (2022), Liu et al. (2023), Feng et al. (2024)

 From digitalization to green transformation

Wang et al. (2023), Chen et al. (2024), Zhang et al. (2024b)

 The measurement of green transformation: green technological progress bias

Hicks (1933), Wei et al. (2019), Ren and Zeng (2021), Ge et al. (2023), Qiu et al. (2023), Wang et al. (2024), Feng et al. (2024), Li and Cheng (2022), Yang et al. (2024), Zhang and Yang (2024)

3. Digital service trade barriers

 Positive for trade

Chen (2020)

 Negative for trade

Ferracane et al. (2020), Qi and Qiang (2021), Zhou and Yao (2021)