消费者权益保护与企业创新投入

周洲; 张艺骞; 冉戎

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消费者权益保护与企业创新投入

周洲^1,2,张艺骞¹,冉戎^1,2

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Protection of the rights and interests of consumers and investment in the innovation of enterprises

Zhou Zhou^1,2, Zhang Yiqian¹, Ran Rong^1,2

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摘要

消费者权益保护是优化市场环境和推动企业创新的重要举措。本文利用2009-2016年制造业民营上市企业的数据，采用双重差分法考察消费者权益保护对企业创新投入的影响及其机制。研究发现：以《消法》大修为刻画的消费者权益保护增强并没有带来企业积极的CSR活动，但可以增强消费品企业的社会关注度，通过缓解信息不对称促进消费品企业的创新投入。对于在政商关系健康、知识产权保护水平较低的城市、处于成熟期以及技术高管占比较低的企业而言，消费者权益保护的创新促进作用更强。强化消费者权益保护可以优化企业人力资本结构，促进企业的隐性创新，并提高企业的全要素生产率。

Abstract

Consumption is an important engine for building a new dual circulation development pattern. In 2020, the contribution rate to China′s GDP will reach 54.3%, but China′s protection of consumer rights is relatively lagging behind. In real economic activities, the infringement of consumers′ rights and interests by enterprises will reduce the willingness to consume and accelerate the outflow of consumption. To this end, the Chinese government is vigorously strengthening the protection of consumers′ rights and interests. At the same time, in order to ensure the implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy and meet the needs of consumption upgrading, the government has also issued a series of policies to enhance the innovation capabilities of enterprises. We are curious about whether the strengthening of consumer rights protection will affect the investment in innovation of Chinese enterprises when the innovation capability of Chinese enterprises still needs to be improved and the innovation resources are obviously insufficient.

The existing literature mainly examines the impact of direct innovation promotion policies on enterprise innovation from the aspects of performance appraisal system, environmental regulation, tax incentives, etc., but the relationship between the pressure to increase consumer protection and enterprise innovation has not been fully tested. The Consumer Protection Law is the basic law of the consumer rights protection policy, which aims to protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers and improve the consumption level of residents. The theory of government regulation believes that the regulatory measures implemented by the government to protect the rights and interests of consumers will affect the behavior of enterprises. Using the data of private listed companies in the manufacturing industry from 2009 to 2016, this paper takes the substantial revision of the Consumer Protection Law in 2013 as a quasi-natural experiment to strengthen consumer rights protection for the first time, and uses a difference-in-difference method to explore the impact of the protection of consumers′ rights and interests on investment in the innovation of enterprises. We describe the strengthening of consumer rights protection with the revision of the Consumer Protection Law, which can alleviate the endogeneity problem among variables, ensure the reliability of the research results to the greatest extent, and provide a useful reference for subsequent empirical research.

The study found that the enhancement of consumer rights protection characterized by the revision of the Consumer Protection Law did not bring positive CSR activities of enterprises, but it could enhance the social attention of consumer goods enterprises, and promote the investment in innovation of consumer goods enterprises by alleviating information asymmetry. We also use heterogeneity analysis to explore the effect of strengthening consumer protection on corporate innovation under different circumstances. The results show that for enterprises in cities with healthy government-business relations and low level of intellectual property protection, strengthening consumer rights protection has a stronger role in promoting investment in the innovation of enterprises. In addition, strengthening the protection of consumer rights will also better promote the investment in innovation of enterprises in the mature stage and with a low proportion of technical executives. And further research found that strengthening the protection of consumer rights can increase the proportion of R&D personnel and technical personnel in enterprises, and promote the advanced human capital structure of enterprises. It can also promote the implicit innovation of enterprises, improve the total factor productivity of enterprises, and provide an important impetus for enterprise upgrading.

Based on the above research conclusions, this paper draws inspiration. The consumer rights protection system should be further improved, the adjustment scope of the Consumer Protection Law should be broadened, the channels for consumer rights protection should be unblocked, and the establishment of a rights protection system consisting of negotiation, mediation, arbitration and litigation that is interlinked and clearly divided into labor should be promoted. Moreover, attention should also be paid to the signaling effect of enhanced protection of consumer rights and interests conveyed by the revision of the Consumer Protection Law, and information disclosure by enterprises to fulfill their consumer responsibilities and even their social responsibilities should be strengthened, so as to alleviate the degree of information asymmetry between enterprises and investors. The government should further promote a new type of cordial and clean relationship between government and business, improve the government-business relationship policy system, clarify the scope of government governance and power boundaries, optimize the business environment, and promote the implementation of consumer rights protection policies. Local governments should also implement differentiated specific models of consumer rights protection, increase policy incentives for human capital, and give full play to the innovation and promotion effect of consumer rights protection.

导出引用

周洲张艺骞冉戎. 消费者权益保护与企业创新投入[J]. 科研管理. 2023, 44(1): 66-78

Zhou Zhou, Zhang Yiqian, Ran Rong. Protection of the rights and interests of consumers and investment in the innovation of enterprises[J]. Science Research Management. 2023, 44(1): 66-78

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基金

国家社会科学基金项目:“司法保护促进我国消费的机制与实证研究”(19BJL021,2019.06—2022.12);国家自然科学基金项目:“行政问责及治理政策工具影响企业非市场战略配置决策的机理及经济后果研究”(72074035,2020.06—2023.06);中央高校基本科研业务费科研专项资助项目:“司法保护促进我国经济高质量增长的实证研究”(2019CDJSK01XK09,2019.06—2022.12)。