• DocumentCode
    2101835
  • Title

    The influence of political connections on the firm value of small and medium-sized enterprises in China

  • Author

    Na, Zhao ; Fusheng, Wang ; Hao, Tian

  • Author_Institution
    School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, HIT, China
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    4-6 Dec. 2010
  • Firstpage
    3267
  • Lastpage
    3270
  • Abstract
    The firm value of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) was affected by many factors, such as the shareholders, cash flow, and government relationship. This paper investigated the influence of the political connections on the firm value of SMEs in China. The affect of political connections on the effectiveness of firm value was analyzed by using the empirical data. The results show that political connections are key factors and have negative influence on firm value of SMEs in China.
  • Keywords
    Cavity resonators; Companies; Economics; Government; Law; Marketing and sales; Threshold current; SMEs; Tobin´s Q; firm value; political connections;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Science and Engineering (ICISE), 2010 2nd International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Hangzhou, China
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7616-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICISE.2010.5689381
  • Filename
    5689381