TITLE:
Can Social Donation Increase the R&D Investment of Enterprises?—Analysis from the Perspective of Institutional Environment
AUTHORS:
Mu Xing, Hongmei Zhang
KEYWORDS:
Social Donation, Formal Institutional Environment, Informal Institutional Environment, R&D Investment
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.8 No.12,
December
31,
2020
ABSTRACT: This paper selects the listed companies of Shanghai and Shenzhen A shares
in China from 2013 to 2018 as the research object, empirically analyzes the impact
of social donation on R&D investment, and examines how the institutional
environment regulates the relationship between them. The empirical study shows
that social donation has an incentive effect on R&D investment of enterprises.
Both formal and informal institutional environment can encourage R&D
investment. The formal institutional environment has no obvious regulating
effect on the relationship between social donation and R&D investment,
while the informal institutional environment has a significant positive regulatory
effect on this relationship. The conclusion of this paper is helpful for us to
have a comprehensive understanding of the impact of external environmental
factors on R&D investment in the process of enterprise transformation and upgrading.