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

• Main Authors: JIA, Nan, HUANG, Kenneth G., ZHANG, Cyndi Man
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Agency; China; Innovation; Asian Studies; Strategic Management Policy; Technology and Innovation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4981; https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2015.15
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...