Feeling right at home: Hometown CEOs and firm innovation

被引：77

作者：

Ren, Shenggang ^{[1
]}

Cheng, Yingmei ^{[2
]}

Hu, Yucai ^{[3
]}

Yin, Chao ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Cent South Univ, Changsha, Hunan, Peoples R China

[2] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA

[3] Yanshan Univ, Sch Econ & Management, Qinhuangdao, Hebei, Peoples R China

[4] Univ Durham, Durham, England

来源：

JOURNAL OF CORPORATE FINANCE | 2021年 / 66卷

基金：

中国国家自然科学基金;

关键词：

CEO hometown identity; Firm innovation; Social and place identity; Risk-taking; Long-term goals; ENVIRONMENTAL-MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY; COMMUNITY ATTACHMENT; PLACE; IDENTIFICATION; STOCK; PERFORMANCE; LABOR; ORGANIZATIONS;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2020.101815

中图分类号：

F8 [财政、金融];

学科分类号：

0202 ;

摘要：

Extending the theories of social and place identity, we predict that CEO hometown identity has a positive and significant influence on firm innovation. Our empirical evidence, from publicly traded firms in China during 2002?2016, suggests that a firm whose CEO?s hometown is in the same province or city as the firm?s headquarters tends to invest more in R&D and generate more patent applications. Our results are robust to the firm fixed effects and we use difference-indifferences analysis and instrument variable regressions to mitigate endogeneity concerns. CEOs? hometown identity still has a strong and positive impact on innovation after we control for measures of social capital of CEOs. We identify the mechanisms behind the positive relation between firm innovation and CEO hometown identity: hometown CEOs enjoy more support from the board of directors, they are more willing to take risks, and they are more likely to have longterm visions.

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