创新需要大量的资源投入研发活动,企业冗余能否作为资源来源促进企业研发投入是本文的研究问题。本文以2010—2012年我国非金融类A股上市公司为研究样本,实证检验了组织冗余对企业研发投入的影响。研究发现,组织冗余资源对企业研发投入具有显著的促进作用。进一步研究发现,市场竞争作为一种外部监督治理机制,能够缓解冗余资源持有和利用中的管理层代理问题,缓解创新融资约束,促进组织冗余对企业研发投入的作用。本文的研究结论丰富了企业研发投入的研究成果,为组织冗余的积极作用提供了新的证据。
Using the A-share listed companies in 2010 -2012 as samples, this paper studies whether internal slack resources can promote corporate R&D investment. Further, this paper investigates that as an external governance mechanism, whether the product market competition can effectively promote corporate to allocate organizational slack to R&D investment. The empirical results show that : ( 1 ) The Organizational Slack has a significant impact on corporate R&D investment, namely organizational slack can promote the corporate R&D investment. (2) As product market competition intensifies, the positive effect of organizational slack on R&D investment will be enhanced. Product market competition has a positive moderating effect on the relationship between organizational slack and corporate R&D investment. This paper demonstrates that organizational slack can play a positive role, and enriches the finds on the effects of corporate R&Dinvestment.