The impact of business-government relations on firms' innovation: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing industry

Yuan Tian, Yupei Wang, Xuemei Xie, Jie Jiao and Hao Jiao

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2019, vol. 143, issue C, 1-8

Abstract: Using stratified sample survey data from World Bank Enterprise Surveys, we conduct an empirical study of the relationship between business-government relations and firms' innovation in the Chinese manufacturing industry and explore both the internal and external boundaries that affect this relationship. The results suggest that in China, a transition economy in Northeast Asia, business-government relations have a significantly positive effect on firms' innovation. Female managers positively moderate the relationship between business-government relations and firms' innovation, but the market competition intensity negatively moderates the relationship between business-government relations and firms' innovation. This article makes some theoretical contributions to the study of firms' innovation, and, at the same time, provides a realistic operating path for firms to improve innovation.

Keywords: Business-government relations; Firms' innovation; Female managers; Market competition intensity; Chinese manufacturing industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2019.02.007

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