Economics and Management College, Minjiang University, Fuzhou, China.
Rural Revitalization Research Institute, Minjiang University, Fuzhou, China.
PLoS One. 2022 Jun 8;17(6):e0269220. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269220. eCollection 2022.
Culture is one of the crucial elements of technological innovation. The existing studies hold that Confucian culture is conducive to the technological innovation of Chinese Listed Companies. However, Chinese family enterprises with relatively profound Confucianism encounter the bottleneck of weak innovation. This makes people wonder whether Confucian culture is conducive to the technological innovation of family enterprises. To solve this mystery, we investigated the effects of Chinese Confucianism on technological innovation in Chinese family enterprises. We found that family entrepreneur's entrepreneurship had worse innovation performance under the influence of Confucian culture. The results are robust to different measures of innovation and are still valid when controlling for the potential endogeneity between Confucian culture and technological innovation. This study provides a more fine-grained perspectives about Chinese innovation culture.
文化是技术创新的关键要素之一。现有研究认为，儒家文化有利于中国上市公司的技术创新。然而，具有深厚儒家思想的中国家族企业却遭遇了创新能力弱的瓶颈。这让人不禁怀疑儒家文化是否有利于家族企业的技术创新。为了解开这个谜团，我们调查了中国儒家思想对家族企业技术创新的影响。我们发现，在儒家文化的影响下，家族企业企业家的创业精神对创新绩效的影响更差。当控制儒家文化和技术创新之间的潜在内生性时，这些结果在不同的创新衡量标准下都是稳健的。这项研究为中国创新文化提供了更细致的视角。
