集团组织属性对科技企业研发投资—现金流敏感性的影响研究——基于内部资本市场配置规模与活跃程度视角
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国家社会科学基金项目"国有企业集团内部资本市场配置效率研究"(17CGL062)


Research on the influence of business groups on the R&D investment-cash flow sensitivity of high-tech enterprises: From the perspective of internal capital market’s allocation scale and activity degree
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    在融资约束的环境下,稳健充足的现金流有助于降低科技企业融资不确定性,保障研发活动有序展开。研发投资—现金流敏感性是衡量科技企业研发投资对资金依赖性的重要指标。已有研究文献表明,现金流的使用成本更低,在外部融资成本较高时,充裕的现金流能够成为保障科技企业研发有序开展的重要依据。不过,对现金流依赖程度过高会引致科技企业放弃现有的创新投资项目。因此,如何平衡与改善研发投资—现金流敏感性是科技企业亟待考虑的问题。从现有文献的研究视角来看,大多数文献侧重于考虑企业融资与外部资本市场的互动关系,试图探究缓解融资约束减少现金依赖,改善研发投资—现金流敏感性的途径。然而,随着我国国民经济的快速发展,企业经营业务日趋多元化及经营规模日趋扩大化,集团组织已成为我国企业的重要组织形式,对科技企业研发投资—现金流敏感性改善问题的研究应考虑集团组织因素的扰动。科层理论指出,集团组织内部会形成一个内部资本市场,其是以集团内的行政命令替代外部的自由市场配置并可作为外部资本市场的补充和替代,以缓解企业融资约束。与外部资本市场相比,内部资本市场具有信息对称、资源共享等优势,引入集团组织环境可有效改善研发投资—现金流敏感性水平。基于此,文章将科技企业嵌入集团组织环境中,探究受内、外部资本市场共同影响下科技企业研发投资—现金流敏感性问题。从内部资本市场配置的规模与活跃程度两个视角,着重讨论引入内部资本市场环境后,科技企业研发投资—现金流敏感性的改善及其机制。由于企业投融资决策行为之间相互关联,采用单方程检验单一指标可能会忽略其他指标变化造成的影响,为避免估计偏差,文章选用跨期系统方程组方法,综合分析科技企业研发投资—现金流敏感性,并辅以PSM方法构造实验组与对照组,考察集团组织属性对科技企业研发投资—现金流敏感性的影响。文章研究发现:集团组织属性能够降低科技企业研发投资—现金流敏感性水平;内部资本市场的配置规模效应从数量上解释了集团下科技企业研发投资—现金流敏感性水平降低的原因;内部资本市场的活跃程度效应则从频度上阐释了研发投资—现金流敏感性水平的降低。据此,可引导科技企业组成类集团化的企业联合体,利用集团组织功效,改善研发投资—现金流敏感性;同时,需进一步完善集团经营机制与管控模式,以提升内部资本市场机制运行的有效性,激励总部提高资金配置效率,为集团下科技企业的研发投资提供保障。

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    In an environment of financing constraints, a stable and sufficient cash flow can help reduce the financing uncertainty of high-tech companies and ensure the development of R&D activities. R&D investment-cash flow sensitivity is an important indicator to measure the dependence of R&D investment on financing of technology companies. Some research literature show that the cost of cash flow is lower. When the external financing cost is high, ample cash flow can become an important basis for ensuring the development of scientific and technological enterprises. However, excessive dependence on cash flow will cause high-tech companies to abandon their existing innovative investment projects. Therefore, how to balance and improve R&D investment-cash flow sensitivity is an urgent issue for high-tech companies to consider. From the research perspective of the existing literature, most of the literature focuses on considering the interaction between corporate financing and external capital markets, trying to explore ways to ease financing constraints, reduce cash dependence, and improve the sensitivity of R&D investment-cash flow. However, with the rapid development of China economy, the diversification of business operations and the expansion of business scale, business group organization has become an important form of organization for Chinese enterprises. Research on the improvement of R&D investment-cash flow sensitivity of high-tech enterprises should consider the disturbance of business group organizational factors. Hierarchical theory points out that an internal capital market (ICM) will be formed within the group organization, which uses administrative orders within the group to replace the external capital market allocation and can be used as a supplement and substitute for the external capital market to ease corporate financing constraints. Compared with the external capital market, the internal capital market has the advantages of information symmetry and resource sharing. The introduction of the business groups environment can effectively improve the sensitivity of R&D investment-cash flow. Based on this, this article embeds high-tech companies in the group organization environment and explores the sensitivity of high-tech companies’ R&D investment-cash flow under the joint influence of internal and external capital markets. From the two perspectives of the size and activity of the internal capital market allocation, the discussion focuses on the improvement of the sensitivity of R&D investment-cash flow of technology companies and the mechanism after the introduction of the internal capital market environment. Due to the interrelationship between corporate investment and financing decision-making behaviors, the use of a single equation to test a single indicator may ignore the impact of changes in other indicators. In order to avoid estimation bias, this paper uses the inter-period system equation method to comprehensively analyze the R&D investment of technology companies-cash flow sensitivity. Using the PSM method to construct the experimental group and the control group, to investigate the influence of the group’s organizational attributes on the sensitivity of high-tech companies’ R&D investment-cash flow. The research found in this paper: 1) Group organizational attributes can reduce the sensitivity level of R&D investment-cash flow of technology companies; 2) The allocation scale effect of the internal capital market quantitatively explains the level of R&D investment-cash flow sensitivity of technology companies under the group The reasons for the decrease; 3) The effect of the degree of activity of the internal capital market explains the decrease in the sensitivity level of R&D investment-cash flow from the frequency. Based on this, technology companies can be guided to form a group-like enterprise consortium and use group organizational functions to improve R&D investment-cash flow sensitivity; at the same time, it is necessary to further improve the group’s operating mechanism and control model to improve the operation of the internal capital market mechanism. Effectiveness, to encourage the headquarters to improve the efficiency of capital allocation, and to provide protection for the R&D investment of technology companies under the group.

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吴凡,陈良华,胡雨菲.集团组织属性对科技企业研发投资—现金流敏感性的影响研究——基于内部资本市场配置规模与活跃程度视角[J].重庆大学学报社会科学版,2022,28(4):120-138. DOI:10.11835/j. issn.1008-5831. jg.2020.12.001

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