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PLOS ONE
Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266199
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- MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences [19YJC630155]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [B200207035]
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This paper examines the impact of corporate charitable donations on innovation investment under different motivations. The study finds that altruistic motivation-oriented donations have an inverted U-shaped effect on innovation investment, while tool motivation-oriented donations have a U-shaped effect. Furthermore, it is discovered that for special treatment (ST) companies, tool motivation-oriented charitable donations have a significant negative effect on innovation investment. State-ownership enhances the inverted U-shaped relationship between altruistic motivation-oriented donations and innovation investment but weakens the U-shaped relationship between tool motivation-oriented donations and innovation investment.
Corporate charitable donations under different motivations will have different effects on innovation investment through different action paths, which provides a new perspective to solve the inconsistency of existing research results. Based on the resource-dependent and principal-agent theories, this paper compares and discusses the relationship between charitable donations and innovation investment under different motivations. Using 2008 ~2019 relevant data of listed companies as research samples, a mixed regression model is established for the hypothesis test, and further examines the state-ownership of its moderating role. The results show that the altruistic motivation-oriented corporate donations have a significant inverted u-shaped effect on innovation investment. The tool motivation-oriented corporate donations have a significant U-shaped effect on innovation investment. Moreover, it is further found that for ST (Special Treatment) corporates with the risk of delisting in the tool motivation-oriented charitable donations type, the corporate charitable donations have a significant negative effect on innovation investment. State-ownership can enhance the inverted U-shaped relationship between altruistic motivation-oriented corporate donations and innovation investment but weaken the U-shaped relationship between tool motivation-oriented corporate donations and innovation investment.
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