Can Social Donation Increase the R&D Investment of Enterprises?—Analysis from the Perspective of Institutional Environment ()
ABSTRACT
This paper selects the listed companies of Shanghai and Shenzhen A shares
in China from 2013 to 2018 as the research object, empirically analyzes the impact
of social donation on R&D investment, and examines how the institutional
environment regulates the relationship between them. The empirical study shows
that social donation has an incentive effect on R&D investment of enterprises.
Both formal and informal institutional environment can encourage R&D
investment. The formal institutional environment has no obvious regulating
effect on the relationship between social donation and R&D investment,
while the informal institutional environment has a significant positive regulatory
effect on this relationship. The conclusion of this paper is helpful for us to
have a comprehensive understanding of the impact of external environmental
factors on R&D investment in the process of enterprise transformation and upgrading.
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Xing, M. and Zhang, H. (2020) Can Social Donation Increase the R&D Investment of Enterprises?—Analysis from the Perspective of Institutional Environment.
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
8, 440-456. doi:
10.4236/jss.2020.812035.
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