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Network news reporting, information transparency, and corporate technological innovation

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  • Wang, Shanshan
  • Wan, Yi

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This study analyses the relation between network news reporting, information transparency, and corporate technological innovation. Results indicate that network news reporting can promote corporate technological innovation with information transparency playing an intermediary role. These findings are supported by robustness tests and endogeneity analyses. Heterogeneity analyses show that the technological innovation promotion effect of network news coverage was more significant for corporations with low information transparency than for those with high information transparency.

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  • Wang, Shanshan & Wan, Yi, 2024. "Network news reporting, information transparency, and corporate technological innovation," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 65(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:finlet:v:65:y:2024:i:c:s1544612324005932
    DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.105563
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    JEL classification:

    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • M15 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - IT Management
    • G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance
    • L86 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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