Role of institutions in the corruption and firm innovation nexus: evidence from former Soviet Union countries

IF 2.2 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS Post-Communist Economies Pub Date : 2022-01-26 DOI:10.1080/14631377.2021.2006495

Elchin Aghazada, Gaygysyz Ashyrov

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In view of the missing consensus on how corruption relates to firm innovation, this paper empirically studies the relationship between petty corruption and product, process, marketing and organisational innovations in the former Soviet Union region. Exploiting cross-sectional firm-level data from the fifth round of the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey, the paper argues that institutional context has utmost importance when approaching this link. Probit estimations for a full sample of former Soviet Union countries indicate a positive link between bribes and firm innovation. Considering variations in institutional development levels, the paper distinguishes three clusters of countries within the region with respect to the quality of institutional structures based on Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) data from the World Bank. The results reveal that the grease-the-wheel effect of bribery on firm innovation strongly remains in countries with weak institutional quality. To explore this link further, this paper made several additional estimations and robustness checks.

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机构在腐败和企业创新关系中的作用：来自前苏联国家的证据

摘要鉴于人们对腐败与企业创新之间的关系缺乏共识，本文实证研究了前苏联地区轻微腐败与产品、流程、营销和组织创新之间的联系。本文利用第五轮商业环境和企业绩效调查的企业层面的横断面数据，认为在处理这一联系时，制度背景至关重要。Probit对前苏联国家全样本的估计表明，贿赂与企业创新之间存在积极联系。考虑到体制发展水平的差异，本文根据世界银行的全球治理指标数据，在体制结构质量方面区分了该区域内的三组国家。研究结果表明，在制度质量较弱的国家，贿赂对企业创新的推波助澜作用依然强烈。为了进一步探索这一联系，本文进行了几个额外的估计和稳健性检查。

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期刊介绍： Post-Communist Economies publishes key research and policy articles in the analysis of post-communist economies. The basic transformation in the past two decades through stabilisation, liberalisation and privatisation has been completed in virtually all of the former communist countries, but despite the dramatic changes that have taken place, the post-communist economies still form a clearly identifiable group, distinguished by the impact of the years of communist rule. Post-communist economies still present distinctive problems that make them a particular focus of research.