The DOI matches its Crossref record; 79 of the 79 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
State Ownership and Firm Innovation in China: An Integrated View of Institutional and Efficiency Logics
Abstract
Using two longitudinal panel datasets of Chinese manufacturing firms, we assess whether state ownership benefits or impedes firms’ innovation. We show that state ownership in an emerging economy enables a firm to obtain crucial R&D resources but makes the firm less efficient in using those resources to generate innovation, and we find that a minority state ownership is an optimal structure for innovation development in this context. Moreover, the inefficiency of state ownership in transforming R&D input into innovation output decreases when industrial competition is high, as well as for start-up firms. Our findings integrate the efficiency logic (agency theory), which views state ownership as detrimental to innovation, and institutional logic, which notes that governments in emerging economies have critical influences on regulatory policies and control over scarce resources. We discuss the implications of these findings for research on state ownership and firm innovation in emerging economies.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
Jensen, M. C., & Meckling, W. H. (1976) · Journal of Financial Economics · doi:10.1016/0304-405x(76)90026-x · Cited by 71,491
(1994) · Journal of the American Dietetic Association · doi:10.1016/0002-8223(94)92216-0 · Cited by 45,910
(1997) · Chemometrics in Environmental Analysis · doi:10.1002/352760216x.ch5 · Cited by 18,653
Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
Porter, M. E. (1985) · Cited by 14,701
Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review
Eisenhardt, K. M. (1989) · The Academy of Management Review · doi:10.5465/amr.1989.4279003 · Cited by 13,338
中華人民共和国国家統計局 (1988) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 12,443
Agency Problems and the Theory of the Firm
Fama, E. F. (1980) · Journal of Political Economy · doi:10.1086/260866 · Cited by 10,466
Institutions and organizations
(1995) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.33-1848 · Cited by 8,003
Structural inertia and organizational change
Hannan, M. T., & Freeman, J. (1984) · American Sociological Review · doi:10.2307/2095567 · Cited by 7,244
Laursen, K., & Salter, A. (2006) · Strategic Management Journal · doi:10.1002/smj.507 · Cited by 6,324
Cited by
Li, J., Xia, J., & Zajac, E. J. (2018) · Strategic Management Journal · doi:10.1002/smj.2697 · Cited by 359
Varieties in state capitalism and corporate innovation: Evidence from an emerging economy
Lin, Y., Fu, X., & Fu, X. (2021) · Journal of Corporate Finance · doi:10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2021.101919 · Cited by 359
Wang, K., & Jiang, W. (2021) · Journal of Cleaner Production · doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128029 · Cited by 166
A Tale of Two Types of Standard Setting: Evidence From Artificial Intelligence in China
Zhang, J., Li, X., & Tong, T. (2024) · Journal of Management · doi:10.1177/01492063221145130 · Cited by 23
Metadata
- Authors
- Zhou, K. Z., Gao, G. Y., & Zhao, H.
- Venue
- Administrative Science Quarterly
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2016-10-10
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 375-404
- ISSN
- 0001-8392 (ISSN-L)
- 1930-3815
- OpenAlex
- W2530259327
- Cited by
- 1,205
- References
- 79
- FWCI
- 76.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: State Ownership and Firm Innovation in China: An Integrated View of Institutional and Efficiency Logics. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1177/0001839216674457
- The paper
- Zhou, K. Z., Gao, G. Y., & Zhao, H. (2017). State Ownership and Firm Innovation in China: An Integrated View of Institutional and Efficiency Logics. Administrative Science Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839216674457
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
