Managerial Risk Taking, Idiosyncratic Risk and Long-term Performance

摘要

The allocation of capital between R&D and capital expenditure is a reflection of managers' inclination to take risks.Based on the perspective of idiosyncratic risk,this paper makes an empirical investigation of Chinese listed manufacturing firms,and discusses the influence mechanism of managerial risk-taking on long-term performance.The results show that,managerial risk-taking increases the idiosyncratic information,and hence we find idiosyncratic risk to be higher for high risk-taking firms.Managerial risk-taking and idiosyncratic risk have the positive effects on firm's long-term performance.And idiosyncratic risk is a mediator of the positive connection between managerial risk-taking and the long-term performance.These evidences support the idea that there is urgent need to increase R&D input in Chinese listed manufacturing firms.However,firms still have to pay attention to the uncertainty and risky factors related to the innovations in order to guarantee the positive effect of managerial risk-taking.