Promoting and inhibiting: Corporate charitable donations and innovation investment under different motivation orientations——Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Corporate charitable donations under different motivations will have different effects on innovation investment through different action paths, which provides a new perspective to solve the inconsistency of existing research results. Based on the resource-dependent and principal-agent theories, this...

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Main Authors: Hongpeng Wang, Yang Zhang, Ming Tian, Zhenhua Wang, Yuan Ding
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9007372/?tool=EBI
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author Hongpeng Wang
Yang Zhang
Ming Tian
Zhenhua Wang
Yuan Ding
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Yang Zhang
Ming Tian
Zhenhua Wang
Yuan Ding
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description Corporate charitable donations under different motivations will have different effects on innovation investment through different action paths, which provides a new perspective to solve the inconsistency of existing research results. Based on the resource-dependent and principal-agent theories, this paper compares and discusses the relationship between charitable donations and innovation investment under different motivations. Using 2008 ~2019 relevant data of listed companies as research samples, a mixed regression model is established for the hypothesis test, and further examines the state-ownership of its moderating role. The results show that the altruistic motivation-oriented corporate donations have a significant inverted u-shaped effect on innovation investment. The tool motivation-oriented corporate donations have a significant U-shaped effect on innovation investment. Moreover, it is further found that for ST (Special Treatment) corporates with the risk of delisting in the tool motivation-oriented charitable donations type, the corporate charitable donations have a significant negative effect on innovation investment. State-ownership can enhance the inverted U-shaped relationship between altruistic motivation-oriented corporate donations and innovation investment but weaken the U-shaped relationship between tool motivation-oriented corporate donations and innovation investment.
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spelling doaj.art-d52ee144cd304f64b01ab2ab82d9f8892022-12-22T01:38:21ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032022-01-01174Promoting and inhibiting: Corporate charitable donations and innovation investment under different motivation orientations——Evidence from Chinese listed companiesHongpeng WangYang ZhangMing TianZhenhua WangYuan DingCorporate charitable donations under different motivations will have different effects on innovation investment through different action paths, which provides a new perspective to solve the inconsistency of existing research results. Based on the resource-dependent and principal-agent theories, this paper compares and discusses the relationship between charitable donations and innovation investment under different motivations. Using 2008 ~2019 relevant data of listed companies as research samples, a mixed regression model is established for the hypothesis test, and further examines the state-ownership of its moderating role. The results show that the altruistic motivation-oriented corporate donations have a significant inverted u-shaped effect on innovation investment. The tool motivation-oriented corporate donations have a significant U-shaped effect on innovation investment. Moreover, it is further found that for ST (Special Treatment) corporates with the risk of delisting in the tool motivation-oriented charitable donations type, the corporate charitable donations have a significant negative effect on innovation investment. State-ownership can enhance the inverted U-shaped relationship between altruistic motivation-oriented corporate donations and innovation investment but weaken the U-shaped relationship between tool motivation-oriented corporate donations and innovation investment.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9007372/?tool=EBI
spellingShingle Hongpeng Wang
Yang Zhang
Ming Tian
Zhenhua Wang
Yuan Ding
Promoting and inhibiting: Corporate charitable donations and innovation investment under different motivation orientations——Evidence from Chinese listed companies
PLoS ONE
title Promoting and inhibiting: Corporate charitable donations and innovation investment under different motivation orientations——Evidence from Chinese listed companies
title_full Promoting and inhibiting: Corporate charitable donations and innovation investment under different motivation orientations——Evidence from Chinese listed companies
title_fullStr Promoting and inhibiting: Corporate charitable donations and innovation investment under different motivation orientations——Evidence from Chinese listed companies
title_full_unstemmed Promoting and inhibiting: Corporate charitable donations and innovation investment under different motivation orientations——Evidence from Chinese listed companies
title_short Promoting and inhibiting: Corporate charitable donations and innovation investment under different motivation orientations——Evidence from Chinese listed companies
title_sort promoting and inhibiting corporate charitable donations and innovation investment under different motivation orientations evidence from chinese listed companies
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9007372/?tool=EBI
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