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Ownership structure and eco-innovation: Evidence from Chinese family firms

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  • Wang, Fangjun
  • Wang, Xuanzi
  • Li, Boying
  • Liu, Yang S.

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Although eco-innovation is typically less economically appealing due to double externalities, it provides initiators with the socioemotional wealth of green reputation and social capital, which family owners may be willing to preserve through economic concessions. We argue that the separation of voting rights and cash flow rights of family ownership eases the tension between socioemotional wealth and financial wealth for family owners. When family owners have a high level of rights separation, they benefit more from eco-innovation in terms of socioemotional wealth while requiring fewer economic concessions; as a result, they are more likely to invest in eco-innovation. The data on Chinese listed family firms supports our hypothesis, and this relationship is more pronounced in years with more prominent environmental concerns, among larger firms, and in firms with political capital. Our findings highlight the role of ownership structure in influencing the tension between socioemotional wealth and financial wealth, which is a key consideration in family firms' decision-making.

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  • Wang, Fangjun & Wang, Xuanzi & Li, Boying & Liu, Yang S., 2023. "Ownership structure and eco-innovation: Evidence from Chinese family firms," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:pacfin:v:82:y:2023:i:c:s0927538x23002299
    DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2023.102158
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    Keywords

    Family firms; Socioemotional wealth; Financial wealth; Ownership structure; Eco-innovation;
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    JEL classification:

    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

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