Prior experience on a subsequent entry and institutional changes on R&D investment
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Authors
Gang, KwangWook
Issue Date
2013-08
Type
Electronic thesis
Thesis
Thesis
Language
ENG
Keywords
Management
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Abstract
In the second essay, I examine the impacts of Korean market reforms on innovation investments. The institutional-based view implies that market reforms are important determinants that reshape a firm's strategy. How do changes in the institutional framework influence investment behavior in firms? I focus on Korea's market reforms following the country's 1997 financial crisis. The 1997 financial crisis led to two major changes: enhanced market competition and a more internationally open governance structure within Korean firms. I investigate the effects of market reforms in general, and I then examine enhancing market competition and sound governing structure in innovation investment for Korean firms. The main results provide evidence of positive influences on R&D investment as market reform unfolds. In addition, I find that firm leverage negatively moderated, but that firm size positively moderated the R&D investment growth that occurred as market reform progressed. Additional evidence, which was only available following the market reforms, shows the negative impacts of industry concentration resulting in greater industry competition, and R&D intensity increasing at a decreasing rate with domestic institutional ownership. Furthermore, I find that domestic institutional ownership negatively moderates the benefits of industry competition and of foreign institutional ownership.
Description
August 2013
School of Management
School of Management
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Publisher
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY