The impact of initial public offerings on innovations: Short‐termism or initial governance force exit?

Xiangchao Hao, Qingbin Meng, Kaijuan Gao and Kam C. Chan

Managerial and Decision Economics, 2020, vol. 41, issue 6, 924-942

Abstract: We study the impact of initial public offerings (IPOs) on corporate innovations in China. The findings suggest that going public significantly impedes corporate innovations by lowering overall innovation quality. For firms with shareholders selling or pledging less shares after IPO, the number of patents increases, but the nonself‐citations per patent decrease relative to matched non‐IPO firms. In contrast, for firms with shareholders selling or pledging more shares after IPOs, both the number of patents and nonself‐citations per patent decrease. The magnitudes of impact in the latter are stronger than those of former, supporting the initial governance force exit hypothesis.

Date: 2020
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