Author(s)

YiFan Wang, YongHui Li^*

Affiliation(s)

School of Management, Zhaotong College, Zhaotong 657000, Yunnan, China.

Corresponding Author

YongHui Li

ABSTRACT

This study examines non-financial listed companies in China's A-share market from 2016 to 2020 to empirically analyze the effects of executive compensation on corporate performance, the influence of innovation investment on corporate performance, and the moderating role of executive compensation in the relationship between innovation investment and corporate performance. The empirical findings indicate that executive compensation positively impacts corporate performance; there exists a significant positive correlation between innovation investment and corporate performance; and executive compensation partially moderates the relationship between innovation investment and corporate performance.

KEYWORDS

Executive compensation; Innovation investment; Corporate performance

CITE THIS PAPER

YiFan Wang, YongHui Li. Executive compensation, innovation investment, and corporate performance. Social Science and Management. 2025, 2(2): 57-63. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61784/ssm3051.

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