Agency incentives and firm innovation: Patenting behavior of state-owned firms in China

This study examines how firm agency shapes firm innovation behaviors. We argue that agents of the firm will give greater priority to the tasks of developing the innovations that are evaluated higher based on the metrics used by the principal to assess their performance, rather than based on the inhe...

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Main Authors: JIA, Nan, HUANG, Kenneth G., ZHANG, Cyndi Man
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4981
https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2015.15
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English