We examine the impact of family-based human capital stemming from a chairperson’s having siblings vis-à-vis not having siblings on corporate innovation in Chinese family firms. Using hand-collected data, we document that when a firm has a sibling-chairperson, it holds more patents, receives...

This study examines the impact of internal control on firm innovation using a sample of Chinese firms. The impact of the internal control system as a whole, as well as the impact of the five components of internal control individually (i.e., control environment, risk assessment, control...