华东师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版) ›› 2021, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (3): 158-170.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2021.03.013

• 管理问题探讨 • 上一篇    下一篇

高管地域文化多样性与企业创新

李真, 李星月   

  • 出版日期:2021-05-15 发布日期:2021-05-24
  • 作者简介:李真,华东师范大学经济与管理学部副教授(上海,200062)|李星月,华东师范大学经济与管理学部硕士研究生

Regional Cultural Diversity of Executives and Corporate Innovation

Zhen LI, Xing-yue LI   

  • Online:2021-05-15 Published:2021-05-24

摘要:

从文化这一非正式制度的视角出发,研究高管团队地域文化多样性对企业创新的影响效应及其对正式性制度的调节作用,结果表明:高管团队地域文化多样性可以通过抑制管理层短视、提高内部控制水平、缓解融资约束等三种机制对企业创新形成显著的促进作用;不同地区和行业环境下高管地域文化多样性对企业创新影响呈现异质性特征,与非沿海地区和传统行业相比,沿海地区以及高新技术行业的企业高管地域文化多样性更易促进企业创新;此外,高管地域文化多样性作为一种企业内部非正式制度与法律、政府补贴等外部正式性制度之间存在显著的强替代效应,它能够有效地弥补正式性制度在促进微观经济创新方面的不足。可见,从企业层面来讲,中国地域文化多样性在促进企业创新探索及决策科学方面具有十分重要的意义;从政府层面来讲,应当正视并充分利用我国独特区域文化对经济发展的规制作用。

关键词: 企业高管, 地域文化多样性, 企业创新, 非正式制度调节

Abstract:

This paper investigates the impact of the senior management team’s regional cultural diversity on corporate innovation performance and the moderating effect on formal institutions from the perspective of culture, an informal system of organization. The results show that the senior management team’s regional cultural diversity has a significant role in promoting corporate innovation, mainly by restraining management’s short-sightedness, improving internal control, and alleviating financing constraints. Moreover, it presents heterogeneous characteristics under different geographical and industrial environments. Compared with inland areas and traditional industries, the regional cultural diversity of corporate executives is more likely to promote corporate innovation in enterprises in coastal areas and high-tech industries. Furthermore, the regional cultural diversity of executives, as an informal system within an enterprise, has a robust and significant substitution effect with formal systems such as social laws and government subsidies, which can effectively make up for the lack of formal institutions in promoting enterprise innovation. It can be seen that at the enterprise level, China’s regional cultural diversity is of great significance in promoting enterprise innovation in exploration and decision-making science; at the government level, the government shall face up to and make full use of our country’s unique regional culture to regulate economic development.

Key words: corporate executives, regional cultural diversity, corporate innovation, informal institutional adjustment