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Corporate governance, innovation input and corporate performance: Empirical research based on endogeneity and industry categories

Meiqun Yin (Business School, Beijing International Studies University, Beijing, China)
Lei Sheng (Business School, Beijing International Studies University, Beijing, China)

Nankai Business Review International

ISSN: 2040-8749

Article publication date: 7 January 2019

Issue publication date: 14 February 2019

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to find the endogenous relationship between innovation input and corporate performance and deepen the study of innovation performance theory in industry and enterprise at the micro level.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper selects the firms listed on A shares in Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges from 2009 to 2015 as samples. The authors cluster these samples according to the factors of production and classify the samples into three types: technology-intensive, capital-intensive and labor-intensive. After obtaining the samples and classifying them, the authors conduct a research on the endogenous relationship between the innovation input and the corporate performance through the simultaneous equations model and 3SLS estimation method. Meanwhile, they also make a study on the influence of executive incentive mechanism on the relationship between the innovation input and the corporate performance.

Findings

In technology-intensive industry, the increase of pre-innovation input will enhance the corporate performance in the current period, however, which will slow down the pace of innovation and lead to lower corporate performance in the future, and then increase innovation input again. In contrast, in capital-intensive industries, innovation input just improves corporate performance in the current period and the promotion of corporate performance will promote the intensity of innovation input in the future. With labor-intensive industries, innovation input also depends on early good returns, but innovation input has no significant impact on the corporate performance both at present and in the future. While in the executive incentive mechanism, salary incentive has a significant positive regulatory effect on the relationship between innovation input and corporate performance.

Originality/value

This paper presents a new research perspective on the relationship between innovation input and firm corporate performance, which is of great value to the listed company in balancing the R&D input with the company’s target performance and the design of executive incentive mechanism.

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Citation

Yin, M. and Sheng, L. (2019), "Corporate governance, innovation input and corporate performance: Empirical research based on endogeneity and industry categories", Nankai Business Review International, Vol. 10 No. 1, pp. 120-137. https://doi.org/10.1108/NBRI-10-2018-0057

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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