CEO financial career and corporate innovation: Evidence from China
CEO financial career and corporate innovation: Evidence from China
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CEO财务生涯与企业创新:来自中国的证据
DOI:
10.1016/j.iref.2021.01.018
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Shuang Liu
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作者:
Chenlin Yang;Xinping Xia;Yuguo Li;Yufang zhao;Shuang Liu
We examine the relationship between chief executive officers (CEOs) and firm innovation. Using CEO individual-level and firm-level data across the Chinese A-share market from 2008 to 2015, a Poisson model estimation shows that financial expert CEOs have significant negative impacts on firm innovation. Financial expert CEOs have caused a 17.5% decrease in the firm innovation level..We argue that the negative effect is due to the crowding-out effect of additional financial investments, which is facilitated by the CEOs’ behavioral consistency. Our study sheds light on exploring CEOs’ behavioral idiosyncrasy on firms’ nonfinancial performance..