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In addition, financing constraints act as a mediator between executive corruption and corporate innovation, i.e., executive corruption exacerbates the financing constraints faced by firms and affects the access to and allocation of corporate resources, thus leading to a decrease in corporate innovation inputs and outputs. Further, the inhibitory effect of executive corruption on firm innovation is more pronounced in firms with low quality internal controls, strong professional background of executives, low quality external audit, low shareholding of institutional investors, strong political affiliation, and state-owned enterprises.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/systems12010025","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,11]],"date-time":"2024-01-11T10:24:12Z","timestamp":1704968652000},"page":"25","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["A Study of the Impact of Executive Corruption on Corporate Innovation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Ming","family":"Bai","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}]},{"given":"Yanru","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}]},{"given":"Ye","family":"Hong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}]},{"given":"Zhongqi","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"733","DOI":"10.1057\/palgrave.jibs.8400229","article-title":"Three Lenses on the Multinational Enterprise: Politics, Corruption and Corporate Social Responsibility","volume":"37","author":"Rodriguez","year":"2006","journal-title":"J. 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