Making digital technology innovation happen: The role of the CEO's information technology backgrounds

S Zhao, Y Guan, H Zhou, F Hu - Economic Modelling, 2024 - Elsevier
Chief executive officers (CEOs) are the leaders of corporate innovation, but little is known
about which types of CEOs are more conducive to digital technology innovation. Based on …

Digital transformation along the supply chain

C Guo, Y Ke, J Zhang - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
In the last two decades, digital transformation has been critical for firms' survival and
development. Thus, it is important to understand what factors might help facilitate firms' …

Technical founders, digital transformation and corporate technological innovation: Empirical evidence from listed companies in China's STAR market

ZG Li, Y Wu, YK Li - International Entrepreneurship and Management …, 2024 - Springer
Technology entrepreneurship and corporate innovation are important for the development of
indigenous innovation. In the digital age, founders are subject to fundamental changes in …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainable corporate governance for environmental innovation: A configurational analysis on board capital, CEO power and ownership structure

X Shui, M Zhang, P Smart, F Ye - Journal of Business Research, 2022 - Elsevier
CEOs, boards of directors, and owners are believed to be important actors in affecting
environmental innovation. Yet, there is a lack of combined view on the three actors in the …

The impact of employee welfare on innovation performance: Evidence from China's manufacturing corporations

Y Wei, H Nan, G Wei - International Journal of Production Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
A large amount of literature has addressed the significant effects of some internal and
external factors on corporate innovation performance. However, no research in the field of …

[HTML][HTML] The value of managerial ability and general ability for inventor CEOs

Z Lin, P Patel, P Oghazi - Journal of business research, 2021 - Elsevier
Although inventor CEOs drive firm innovation, widely recognized CEO abilities—general
ability or managerial ability—could be central to leveraging CEOs' invention abilities to drive …

CEOs' marital status and corporate innovation

Y Zhang, H Zheng, D Lam, XM Fu… - Journal of Product …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Corporate innovation is an important driver of a firm's value and long‐term growth. It is the
outcome of the creation and/or recreation of new and existing knowledge as well as …

[HTML][HTML] Founder CEO, CEO characteristics, and firm innovation efficiency: An empirical study of China's GEM-Listed companies

Q Wang, X Pei, H Liang - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
While it is widely known that founder Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) can influence firm
innovation, few studies have comprehensively examined how the founder CEO affects the …

The costs and benefits associated with inventor CEOs

SK Byun, K Fuller, Z Lin - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper examines various firm policies that highlight the potential tradeoffs associated
with hiring CEOs with hands-on innovation experience. In addition to generating more …

Radical or incremental? Impacts of mergers and acquisitions on firms' Innovation

H Xue, S Zeng, D Sun - IEEE Transactions on Engineering …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article studies whether and how mergers and acquisitions (M&A) intensity makes an
impact on a firm's postacquisition innovation. By differentiating the types of innovation, we …