Zhang, Rui; Xiong, Zhengling; Li, Honghuan; Deng, Baijun - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 7 (2022) 3, pp. 1-12
This paper examines whether political connection heterogeneity plays a role in corporate innovation in a sample of all … innovation, while connections with local government officials inhibit innovation. The nonconformity between the influence of … differential innovation-promotion strategies. We use the Heckman two-stage estimation to address selection bias, and we adopt a …