Exploring the landscape of corporate venture capital: a systematic review of the entrepreneurial and finance literature

The influence of corporate venture capital (CVC) investments within the venture capital industry, that is, equity stakes in high technology ventures, has stimulated the academic literature on this specific research area. Generally, CVC is strongly associated with the concept of corporate venturing and plays a vital role in the strategic renewal of established companies. Owing to the multifaceted nature of the CVC phenomenon, the existing literature is rather fragmented. Therefore, the purpose of this article is twofold: first, bibliographic coupling is introduced to the field of CVC to reveal the underlying structure of the current research front. Second, a content-related review is conducted to shed light on nascent research streams and shortcomings within the CVC literature that indicate promising avenues for future research. The systematic review of a comprehensive set of 65 articles reveals that the prevailing CVC literature is mainly driven by two dominant logics, management and finance, that tend to separate themselves from one another. Moreover, nascent research streams are identified that will broaden and enrich the academic discussion.     

在自由经济的语境中反思“行为财务学”

起步于八十年代后期的行为财务学被誉为财务学领域里的“显学”,但作为一门年轻的学科,无论在理论层面、应用层面,还是在观念层面都需要作全面而深入的研究。本文运用自由经济原理,将“行为财务学”的理论大厦构筑在政治哲学、知识论和经济学的基础上,使其理论基石更加坚固;本文跳出“行为财务学”仅仅对金融市场上行为主体考量的局限,拓展到对企业财务理念、公司制度等方面的考察,使其应用范围更加宽泛;同时还批判了“行为财务学”将“人”作为实验品的做法,在全面研究“行为财务学”的基础上,创造性的从“以人为本”的思想出发,鲜明地提出了创建具有中国特色的“人本财务学”的思想,以此将“行为财务学”的研究提升到一个新的高度。     

地方政府的"土地财政"及其弊端

目前我国地方政府把土地作为增加财政收入的工具,对地方财政和土地资源的可持续利用造成不利的影响。分析了财政激励条件下地方政府的土地利用行为,并在环境保护视角下深入分析这些行为对地方财政和土地资源的影响。发现由于土地资源的稀缺性,地方政府以持续开发土地作为发展动力的土地财政不是一种可持续的发展模式,不能为地方政府带来稳定的财政收入,终将导致财政收入的枯竭。     

Cross-regional comparative study on digital finance and finance efficiency in China: The eastern and non-eastern areas

Digital finance is expected to improve the financial development of economic backward regions through its inclusive nature. Therefore, this paper selects the financial data of 30 provinces in China from 2011 to 2017 to evaluate regional finance disparities with the inclusion of digital finance, using the meta-frontier slack-based measure dynamic DEA model. The results are as follows. (1) The overall financial efficiency, input efficiency, output efficiency, and TGR in the eastern region are better than those in the non-eastern region. (2) With the inclusion of digital finance, the finance efficiency gaps in the eastern and non-eastern regions have expanded.     

关于财务学的多学科多视角研究

传统的财务学研究只应用了经济学、管理学和会计学知识。本文则提出应用社会学、伦理学、心理学等学科的理论和方法对财务学进行多学科多视角的研究，更加有利于财务学的发展。     

Theory Building at the Intersection: Recipe for Impact or Road to Nowhere?

Zahra and Newey (2009) argue for the importance of creative theory building in management research and suggest that this is best to be done via interdisciplinary research. We argue that the more management research goes down the road of pursuing interdisciplinary research for generating novel theories, the more likely it will compromise another worthwhile goal, which is to establish the discipline of management as a legitimate academic discipline that is distinguishable from other academic disciplines in its subject matter and its theoretical and methodological approach. We also argue against the implicit premise that the focus of management discipline should be on developing new theories.     

试论人本主义财务学

现代企业财务主流理论,具有鲜明的技术主义特征。技术主义财务学建立在一系列假设的基础之上,其运用价值和解释能力相当有限,因而亟待发展和完善。行为的社会性,认为制度性是财务的根本属性。本文提出并论证了人本主义财务学这一全新的命题,并从理财假设、理财目标、理财理念、理财方式、理财主体、理财对象等方面分析了人本主义财务学的特征。     

How can firms access bank finance for circular business model innovation?

Access to bank finance has emerged as a key challenge for firms engaged in circular business model innovation (circular BMI), both in practice and in the academic literature. Through interviews, focus groups and archival documents, we document the experience of firms accessing finance for circular BMI and assess bank willingness to lend to firms that engage in circular BMI. Our findings offer potential strategies for firms who look for external (bank) finance to realise circular BMI. Using a case study-based theory-refining approach, we identify three core strategies that firms can use to obtain bank finance for circular BMI. First, firms can signal future cash flow expectations by aiming to secure customer contracts and preorders. Second, relationship building with banks, suppliers and customers improves the banks' risk perception of firms. Third, firms can design standardised, long-lasting circular assets that can serve as bank collateral, especially once secondary markets develop, overcoming the difficulty of lending based on innovative, firm-specific assets.     

Sustainable finance and investment: Review and research agenda

Sustainable finance and investment (SFI) is key to fostering sustainable global development. Research in this field has focused on specific topics, such as the financial performance of sustainable investments and companies committed to sustainability. The SFI literature is excessively fragmented, rendering it difficult to identify what constitutes the field and what differentiates it from traditional finance and investment. Based on a systematic literature review of 166 articles, we map and integrate the main elements of the SFI field and identify the most relevant avenues for further research. In this process, we provide a definition of SFI; identify the main players in the field; and describe their profiles, strategies, and outcomes. We also propose a framework for understanding the SFI field and a research agenda. This agenda organizes the main SFI research questions and suggests suitable approaches to address them. We conclude that SFI players have worked together to promote positive social and environmental impacts through their financial and investment activities. However, the under-theorization of the SFI concept, the traditional short-term nature of financial logic, and the lack of evidence on the SFI impacts on society and the environment are the greatest challenges facing the field.     

An Analysis of Authors and Institutions Contributing to The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1981–1993

A bstract . An analysis of academic participation in The American Journal of Economics and Sociology shows that the journal is a major outlet for comprehensive schools which emphasiize undergraduate programs, but others, including large research schools, are well represented. Although the AJES has encouraged interdisciplinary research in the social sciences from its inception, economists are the major contributors. Seventeen foreign countries, forty-five states, and the District of Columbia are represented in the AJES with Eastern, Midwestern, and Western states being the most prominent.     

Two approaches to measuring journal quality: Application to finance journals

We analyze the tendency of a journal to publish articles that eventually become classics in their specialized fields. A simple theoretical model is developed and applied to citation data for finance journals in 1991 and 1992. Of the top ten finance journals, only four are traditional finance journals, and six are economics journals, while none are accounting journals. This illustrates the close synergies between economic research and financial research. In contrast, the linkages between accounting research and financial research are much weaker. We thank Harold Black, Philip Cooley, Esther Davis, Robert Eisenbeis, Carl Hubbard, J. Thomas Lindley, Jeff Madura, Terry Zivney, Marilyn Wiley, and an anonymous referee for very helpful comments and discussion which substantially improved earlier drafts of this paper. This does not indicate agreement by any of these individuals with the ranking system described in this article, or with the results. These items, and any errors or omissions, are the responsibility of the authors.     

香港与世界级金融中心的差距及发展优势

我国经济规模正在迅速扩大,越来越需要世界级金融中心的支撑.香港目前是排在伦敦和纽约之后第二梯队的国际金融中心;认为香港金融业的成长具有优越的条件,分析了香港与伦敦和纽约的差距及向世界级金融中心迈进的有利条件.     

On the relation between intellectual collaboration and intellectual output: Evidence from the finance academe

This paper tests the relation between intellectual collaboration and the quality of the intellectual output using academic papers published in prestigious finance journals during 1988–2005. We use the number of authors of a paper to measure the extent of intellectual collaboration and the number of citations that a paper receives (adjusted by the number of years since the paper's publication) as a measure of its intellectual value. Based on empirical tests, we find that papers with more authors are cited more often. This relation does not hold for purely theoretical papers. Coauthoring with a prolific author leads to higher quality papers, but coauthoring with colleagues at the same institution leads to neither higher nor lower quality papers. Papers with four authors are cited most often. Overall, when it comes to intellectual collaboration, our results counter the notion that “too many cooks spoil the broth.”     

Toward a supply chain finance (SCF) ecosystem – Proposing a framework and agenda for future research

While supply chain finance (SCF) is receiving growing attention in research, it remains limited in reach and fragmented in its implementation. At the same time, technological advances are changing the shape of the overall business ecosystem in which SCF is embedded. Therefore, the aim of this research is to conduct a systematic review of the SCF literature and develop a framework of analysis to support further exploration of the SCF ecosystem. This research expands on other recent systematic reviews of SCF literature and introduces the business ecosystem concept to the SCF domain. Based on the presented SCF framework, an agenda for future SCF ecosystem research is proposed.     

Digital finance and misallocation of resources among firms: Evidence from China

The resources misallocation among firms is serious in China, our calculation shows it has resulted in the total factor productivity (hereafter, TFP) loss of over 200% and has been gradually increasing in recent years, based on the firm-level data from National Tax Survey database from 2007 to 2016. This paper further investigates empirically the impact of digital finance on resources misallocation, by measuring resources misallocation with firm’s capital deviation and labor deviation, as well as measuring digital finance with the number of searches for fintech keywords on Baidu's webpage. Results suggest that digital finance can significantly mitigate resources misallocation among firms to improve the aggregate TFP by redistributing resources from over-resourced firms to under-resourced firms, although it cannot improve the TFP within a representative firm. The findings remain robust after addressing the endogeneity and using alterative variables of digital finance and value of labor output elasticity. Moreover, digital finance can rectify the credit-market discrimination, where its mitigating effect on resources misallocation prefers to non-state-owned firms and small and medium-sized firms. However, traditional finance, as measured by the number of offline bank branches, can also optimize resources allocation, but this effect is gradually diminishing and it also fails to rectify the credit discrimination.     

Academic content,research productivity,and tenure

This study examines the influence of a Finance doctoral program’s academic content on the research productivity of the graduates at the time of the tenure decision. The results of this investigation show that a Finance program’s academic content has no influence on the total number of publications of program graduates, but finds a significant relationship between academic content and graduate’s records of publications in top finance journals by the time of the tenure evaluation. More precisely, doctoral programs requiring more mathematically oriented classes such as Continuous Time Finance and/or Stochastic Calculus produce graduates who have a better record of publication in top finance journals at the time of tenure than those graduating from programs without these requirements.     

企业财务预警系统探析

建立财务预警系统,及时发现企业财务管理中存在的问题,向经营者预先发出警报,有效防范与化解财务危机,是现代企业财务管理的一项重要内容。文章就企业财务预警系统的功能、模型的构建及对策建议进行了简要探讨。     

Costly external finance,reallocation, and aggregate productivity

Empirical studies document that resource reallocation across production units plays an important role in accounting for aggregate productivity growth in the US manufacturing. Financial market frictions could distort the reallocation process and hence may hinder aggregate productivity growth. This paper studies the quantitative impact of costly external finance on aggregate productivity through resource reallocation across firms with idiosyncratic productivity shocks. A partial equilibrium model calibrated to the US manufacturing data shows that costly external finance causes inefficient output reallocation from high productivity firms to low productivity firms and as a result leads to a 1 percent loss in aggregate TFP.     

Costly external finance and labor market dynamics

We study the role of agency frictions and costly external finance in cyclical labor market dynamics, with a focus on how credit-market frictions may amplify aggregate TFP shocks. The main result is that aggregate TFP shocks lead to large fluctuations of labor market quantities if the model is calibrated to the empirically observed countercyclicality of the finance premium. A financial accelerator mechanism thus amplifies labor market fluctuations by rendering rigidity in real wage dynamics. In contrast, if the finance premium is procyclical, which the model can be parameterized to accommodate, amplification is absent, and labor-market fluctuations display the Shimer (2005) puzzle.     

反洗钱会计论纲

反洗钱会计学作为会计学的一个边缘性学科,是金融、经济及法律同传统会计学有机结合的产物。由于其研究刚刚起步,理论尚不完善,有很多问题还有待进一步地深入研究探讨。本文仅就反洗钱会计的构建谈点初步认识。