In the name of family: family control and corporate R&D manipulation

Hao Ding and Chunlin Liu

European Journal of Innovation Management, 2025, vol. 28, issue 10, 5181-5196

Abstract: PurposeR&D manipulation is increasingly attracting widespread attention from scholars and practitioners, and there is an urgent need to explore its drivers. Given the prevalence of family businesses worldwide, this paper tries to examine the impact of family control on R&D manipulation.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, we adopt the ordinary least squares regression to explore the impact of family control on R&D manipulation as well as the moderating effects.FindingsLeveraging the socioemotional wealth theory, this paper finds that family control could inhibit corporate R&D manipulation behaviour. Furthermore, clan culture could strengthen the inhibiting effect. Besides, compared to restructured family businesses, the inhibiting effect is more pronounced in entrepreneur family businesses.Originality/valueThis paper examines the factors influencing R&D manipulation from the perspective of corporate ownership forms, which also provides managerial insights to regulate R&D manipulation and achieve sustainable innovation-driven development for Chinese family businesses.

Keywords: Family control; R&D manipulation; Socioemotional wealth theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1108/EJIM-02-2025-0233

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