Migrant top management team and corporate innovation: Evidence from China

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dc.citation.volumeEarly View
dc.contributor.authorLiu Y
dc.contributor.authorHabib A
dc.contributor.authorHuang HJ
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-24T22:25:58Z
dc.date.available2025-09-24T22:25:58Z
dc.date.issued2025-09-02
dc.description.abstractThis study explores the association between top management teams (TMT) comprised of migrant managers (migrant TMT) and corporate innovation. Using hand-collected data for a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms spanning the period 2008–2020, we find a positive and significant association between a migrant TMT and corporate innovation. Our results remain robust to a set of endogeneity tests, including entropy-balanced regression and instrumental variable regression. We then show that real earnings management and risk-taking are the channels through which the positive relationship between migrant TMTs and corporate innovation manifests itself: migrant TMTs engage less in real earnings management and are more likely to take risks. Finally, we find that the positive relationship between migrant TMTs and corporate innovation is more pronounced in state-owned firms and remains significant in both high- and low-cultural diversity regions, suggesting that the observed effect is not primarily driven by cultural adaptability but reflects a robust migration-driven mechanism. Our findings contribute to the literature by providing novel evidence on how a migrant TMT affects corporate decision-making.
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dc.identifier.citationLiu Y, Habib A, Huang HJ. (2025). Migrant top management team and corporate innovation: Evidence from China. Accounting and Finance. Early View.
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/acfi.70093
dc.identifier.eissn1467-629X
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn0810-5391
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/73606
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherJohn Wiley and Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand
dc.publisher.urihttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acfi.70093
dc.relation.isPartOfAccounting and Finance
dc.rights(c) 2025 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectinnovation
dc.subjectmigrants
dc.subjectreal earnings management
dc.subjectrisk-taking
dc.subjecttop management team
dc.titleMigrant top management team and corporate innovation: Evidence from China
dc.typeJournal article
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