The effects of slack resource of R&amp;D professionals on firm performance: evidence from traditional manufacturing firms in an emerging economy

Zhang, Ying; Ji, Li; Hu, Yanghong; Song, Wenwen; Jiang, Wanxing; Ding, Wanling

doi:10.1080/09585192.2017.1416654

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“…Even though some employ marketing-based measurements (Alexander and Buchholz 1978;Vance 1975) others suggest accounting-based measurements (Waddock and Graves 1997;Cochran and Wood 1984) and in some studies, both are adopted (McGuire, Sundgren and Schneeweis 1988). For this study, we employed return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE) and return on invested capital (ROIC) as a proxy for firm performance and these measures have been utilised in previous studies (Sher and Yang 2005;Aral and Weill 2007;Zhang et al 2018).…”

Section: Measurement Of Firm Performancementioning

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The adoption of technological innovations in a B2B context and its impact on firm performance: An ethical leadership perspective

Lin

Yip

et al. 2020

Industrial Marketing Management

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The adoption of technological innovations in a B2B context and its impact on firm performance: An ethical leadership perspective

Lin

Yip

et al. 2020

Industrial Marketing Management

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“…There is a positive relationship between institutional investor attention and CSR engagement (Y. Zhang et al, 2020). Institutional investors' site visits are positively associated with CSR (X.…”

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“…Equity structure, that is, the institutional and executive shareholding ratios, may mediate the relationship between firm performance and CSR. Institutional investors are not only pursuing profits but also pay attention to CSR and improving business and social relations (Y. Zhang et al, 2020).…”

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Firm Performance and Corporate Social Responsibility: Spatial Context and Effect Mechanism

2023

Sage Open

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This study investigates the effect of firm performance on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in a specific spatial context. The results for a sample of 1,557 listed companies in China suggest that a firm’s CSR performance level is influenced by that of nearby firms. This study also confirms the indirect link between financial and CSR performance through the mediating role of institutional and executive shareholding rates. In addition, the empirical evidence in this study not only supports the spatial context-sensitive thesis but, more importantly, proposes a spatiotemporal context-sensitive thesis. It provides strong empirical support for the true relative value of the spatiotemporal context affecting CSR performance, which yields important theoretical, methodological, and policy implications.

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“…Agusti-Perez et al ( 24 ) indicates that potential slack has a U-shaped and inverted U-shaped relationship with financial performance across time spans, respectively, and Bejarano et al ( 25 ) suggested that the slack-performance link can be described as an inverted U-shaped curve independently of slack type. In China, Zhang et al ( 26 ) constructed an inverted U-shaped between the slack and market performance, and only two research have been conducted to analyze organizational slack in the healthcare field. Huang and Liu ( 27 ) used DEA to measure organizational slack in hospitals using a sample of 10 hospitals in Shanghai, and Xiong et al ( 28 ) proposed the need to maintain slack in healthcare resources from the perspective of healthcare demand.…”

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How slack resource affects hospital financial performance: The evidence from public hospitals in Beijing

Chen

Song²,

Zhu³

2022

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundBeijing is a city with high concentration and congestion of quality medical resources in China. While moderate slack seems to be beneficial to the improvement of medical quality. The actual relationship between hospital slack resources and their performance deserves further exploration. The study aims to analyze the slack resources of public hospitals in Beijing and investigate the relationship between slack and hospital financial performance. Finding a reasonable range of slack to optimize resource allocation.MethodsThe panel data of 22 public hospitals in Beijing from 2005 to 2011 were selected as the sample, and the DEA model was applied to measure the main variable using DEAP 2.1. Descriptive statistical analysis was performed using Excel and STATA 15. Pearson correlation coefficient analysis and variance inflation factor test were performed for each variable to avoid multicollinearity. The HAUSMAN test was used to determine the appropriate panel regression model, and then to analyze the influence relationship between the variables.ResultsFrom 2005 to 2011, hospital slack resource transitioned from high to low. The slack measured by the DEA model has an inverted U-shaped relationship with financial performance, with ROA increasing from 4.088 to 8.083 when slack increases from 0 to about 0.378, and then showing a decreasing trend; slack measured by financial indicators has a transposed S-shaped relationship with financial performance, with ROA increasing when slack increase from 3.772 to 5.933.ConclusionsThe slack resources of Beijing public hospitals decreased year by year from 2005 to 2011. Moderate slack resources are conducive to the improvement of healthcare quality, but when slack resources increase to a certain level, it will have a negative impact on healthcare quality. Therefore, hospital managers should control the slack within a moderate range according to the hospital operation policy and development plan to obtain the best performance.

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The effects of slack resource of R&D professionals on firm performance: evidence from traditional manufacturing firms in an emerging economy

Cited by 11 publications

References 51 publications

The adoption of technological innovations in a B2B context and its impact on firm performance: An ethical leadership perspective

The adoption of technological innovations in a B2B context and its impact on firm performance: An ethical leadership perspective

Firm Performance and Corporate Social Responsibility: Spatial Context and Effect Mechanism

How slack resource affects hospital financial performance: The evidence from public hospitals in Beijing

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