Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10482546 Research Policy 2015 11 Pages PDF
Abstract
This paper empirically investigates whether corporate governance practices implemented to align shareholders' and managers' interests affect the resources firms devote to R&D. Two databases - one on governance ratings and one on R&D investment - are merged to obtain a multi-country, multi-sector sample of 177 European companies involved in R&D activities. The results suggest that limitations of anti-takeover devices and voting rights restrictions, a financial performance-based remuneration system for managers and a higher shareholders' consensus at the annual general assembly are all negatively correlated with R&D intensity. In other words, governance practices that are designed to respond to the short-term expectations of financial markets might prove to be detrimental to long-term R&D investments.
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