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Chuanyi Wang; Jiale Yang; Zhe Cheng; Chaoqun Ni. Correction: Wang, C.; et al. Postgraduate Education of Board Members and R&D Investment—Evidence from China. Sustainability 2019, 11, 6524. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3324 .
AMA StyleChuanyi Wang, Jiale Yang, Zhe Cheng, Chaoqun Ni. Correction: Wang, C.; et al. Postgraduate Education of Board Members and R&D Investment—Evidence from China. Sustainability 2019, 11, 6524. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (6):3324.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChuanyi Wang; Jiale Yang; Zhe Cheng; Chaoqun Ni. 2021. "Correction: Wang, C.; et al. Postgraduate Education of Board Members and R&D Investment—Evidence from China. Sustainability 2019, 11, 6524." Sustainability 13, no. 6: 3324.
The paper employs a glonacal agency heuristic to explore how certain research-intensive Chinese universities exercise agency in response to global and national impacts in creating the world-class university. Two global forces (international scholarly discussions on the world-class university and global university rankings) and one national force (China’s Double First-Class Project) are considered. Through an in-depth document analysis of 41 Chinese research-intensive universities’ strategic plans, it is revealed that the universities have designed mainly three strategies to reply to the impacts. The first is to actively embrace global impacts, while looking for national supports for the embracement; the second is to partly draw on global forces while taking into account national considerations; and the third is to primarily draw on national forces while being minimally influenced by global forces. The three strategies point to possible ways for non-Western universities to balance global and national influences in their development, and reflect potential contributions of universities, as local organisational agencies, to global higher education.
Lili Yang; Jiale Yang; Chuanyi Wang. The research-intensive university in a glonacal higher education system: the creation of the world-class university in China. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 2021, 1 -20.
AMA StyleLili Yang, Jiale Yang, Chuanyi Wang. The research-intensive university in a glonacal higher education system: the creation of the world-class university in China. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. 2021; ():1-20.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLili Yang; Jiale Yang; Chuanyi Wang. 2021. "The research-intensive university in a glonacal higher education system: the creation of the world-class university in China." Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management , no. : 1-20.
Increasing research and development (R&D) investment has been a common strategy to advance the sustainable development of economy and competitiveness across the world. Instead of external determinants, exploring the influence of internal factors such as the characteristics of board members is an important topic, yet under-researched. This article aims to reveal whether a firm’s R&D investment is related to the directors’ postgraduate education experience. Further, we want to explore whether this relationship shows heterogeneity in different industrial environments. We analyzed information from a sample of 1374 listed companies in China using descriptive statistics, ordinary least square (OLS) regression and instrumental variable (IV) estimation, and came to the following conclusions: First, the percentage of directors with doctorates significantly increases the chance of investing R&D activities. Second, in the second industry, the higher the proportion of postgraduate education degree holder as directors in a firm, the more expenditure the firm invests in R&D activities. Yet, there is no such association in the third industry. Finally, if a capital-driven strategy is adopted, directors with a master’s degree tend to reduce R&D investment in IT companies. Findings from this research not only enrich innovation management theory, upper echelon theory, and human capital theory, but also provide insights for corporate governance and national sustainable innovation.
Chuanyi Wang; Jiale Yang; Zhe Cheng; Chaoqun Ni. Postgraduate Education of Board Members and R&D Investment—Evidence from China. Sustainability 2019, 11, 6524 .
AMA StyleChuanyi Wang, Jiale Yang, Zhe Cheng, Chaoqun Ni. Postgraduate Education of Board Members and R&D Investment—Evidence from China. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (22):6524.
Chicago/Turabian StyleChuanyi Wang; Jiale Yang; Zhe Cheng; Chaoqun Ni. 2019. "Postgraduate Education of Board Members and R&D Investment—Evidence from China." Sustainability 11, no. 22: 6524.