Clustered institutional investors, shared ESG preferences and low-carbon innovation in family firm

B Wu, Q Gu, Z Liu, J Liu - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2023 - Elsevier
As individual investors who act independently can generate only limited influence on
corporate decisions, this paper considers clustered institutional investors connected through …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of China's R&D subsidies on R&D investment, technological upgrading and economic growth

P Boeing, J Eberle, A Howell - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the impact of research and development (R&D) subsidies on R&D
inputs and their wider economic effects. The empirical analysis employs a structural vector …

Institutional investor ESG activism and corporate green innovation against climate change: exploring differences between digital and non-digital firms

C Jin, A Monfort, F Chen, N Xia, B Wu - Technological Forecasting and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper proposes that institutional investor ESG activism affects corporate green
innovation through two attention mechanisms: intra-firm allocation of attention and inter-firm …

Do subsidies and R&D investment boost energy transition performance? Evidence from Chinese renewable energy firms

X Qi, Y Guo, P Guo, X Yao, X Liu - Energy Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
To carry out the energy transition, the Chinese government's subsidy to renewable energy
enterprises increased from 4.366 billion yuan in 2008 to 7.538 billion yuan in 2017, so what …

Do environmental subsidies spur environmental innovation? Empirical evidence from Chinese listed firms

S Ren, H Sun, T Zhang - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2021 - Elsevier
Although one of the main reasons why governments offer environmental subsidies to firms is
to encourage environmental innovation, the effectiveness of such measures is unclear. In …

The impact of tax reform on firms' digitalization in China

Z Chen, Y Xiao, K Jiang - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2023 - Elsevier
Digital transformation is continuous and costly, thereby posing a challenge to the stability of
firms' cash flow. Tax cuts are conducive to improving cash flow condition. This study …

Preferential tax policy and R&D personnel flow for technological innovation efficiency of China's high-tech industry in an emerging economy

Q Wan, J Chen, Z Yao, L Yuan - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2022 - Elsevier
As an emerging economy, the two-phase innovation inefficiency of China's hi-tech industry
caused by a preferential tax policy should be addressed. Using the SAR Tobit econometric …

Can digital transformation alleviate corporate tax stickiness: The mediation effect of tax avoidance

S Zhou, P Zhou, H Ji - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022 - Elsevier
As the salient pain during the economic downturn, tax stickiness has been deeply troubling
enterprises. Given the burgeoning academic interest in the role of digital transformation in …

Institutional investor ESG activism and exploratory green innovation: Unpacking the heterogeneous responses of family firms across intergenerational contexts

B Wu, F Chen, L Li, L Xu, Z Liu, Y Wu - The British Accounting Review, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the heterogeneous responses to institutional investor ESG activism
by expanding reference point theory among non-family firms and family firms with different …

Factors influencing technological innovation efficiency in the Chinese video game industry: Applying the meta-frontier approach

X Xi, B Xi, C Miao, R Yu, J Xie, R Xiang, F Hu - … Forecasting and Social …, 2022 - Elsevier
Exploring technological innovation efficiency in China's video game industry allows us to
reconceptualize the industry's state of development, identify barriers to technological …