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Financial leverage and corporate innovation in Chinese public-listed firms

European journal of innovation management, 2022-01, Vol.25 (1), p.299-323 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Emerald Publishing Limited ;Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 ;ISSN: 1460-1060 ;EISSN: 1758-7115 ;DOI: 10.1108/EJIM-04-2020-0161

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  • Title:
    Financial leverage and corporate innovation in Chinese public-listed firms
  • Author: Iqbal, Najaf ; Xu, Ju Feng ; Fareed, Zeeshan ; Wan, Guangcai ; Ma, Lina
  • Subjects: Artificial intelligence ; Capital structure ; Corporate culture ; Corporate debt ; Damage ; Debt financing ; Divestitures ; Economic growth ; Equity financing ; Financial leverage ; Financing ; GDP ; Gross Domestic Product ; Human capital ; Innovations ; Intellectual property ; Inventions ; Investments ; R&D ; Research & development ; Research & development expenditures ; Stock exchanges
  • Is Part Of: European journal of innovation management, 2022-01, Vol.25 (1), p.299-323
  • Description: PurposeThis study attempts to document the impact of financial leverage on corporate innovation in the Chinese nonfinancial public firms listed on Shenzhen and Shanghai stock exchanges.Design/methodology/approachThe firm-level data are collected from CSMAR database for ten years, ranging from 2007 to 2016. The authors have employed the panel fixed effects model and further system GMM approach for analysis. The sample is segregated on the basis of state (SOE) and nonstate ownership (NSOE) to check for the diverse effects. In total, three different proxies of financial leverage are used to unearth the varying impact of short-time and long-term leverage separately. Further, corporate innovation is divided into input innovation (R&D/Sales and R&D/Assets) and output innovation (patents and inventions).FindingsThe results suggest that financial leverage is detrimental to the input innovation while conducive for the output innovation when measured by the number of patents. Contrarily, leverage has a negative influence over the output innovation when measured by the number of inventions. This implies that leverage is more damaging for the highest form of innovativeness (inventions) in China. Input innovation is more sensitive to the changes in long-term leverage versus short-term leverage. Further, the authors find that innovation in SOEs is more sensitive to the changes in the leverage as compared to the NSOEs. The results are free from the threat of endogeneity and identification problems, as reported by the system GMM model.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors did not segregate the sample on the basis of industry/sector.Practical implicationsThe firms pursuing a strategy of radical innovation should try to keep their debt levels lower in order to achieve a higher innovation performance. Although, a rise in the leverage may mean an increased access to finance for a firm but such an access comes at a cost in the form of damage to the corporate innovation. However, increased debt financing may not be so bad for the firms that want to achieve a moderate and not the highest level of innovation. Such firms can produce recurring and synergic effects with debt financing and moderate innovation, once they achieve a level of innovation performance that satisfies their financiers.Originality/valueTo the best of authors’ knowledge, this is probably the first study to check the impact of firm-level financial leverage on both input and output innovation in the Chinese public-listed nonfinancial firms' panel data perspective till now.
  • Publisher: Bradford: Emerald Publishing Limited
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1460-1060
    EISSN: 1758-7115
    DOI: 10.1108/EJIM-04-2020-0161
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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