 The Unintended Consequences of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on Small BusinessJiamin Wang
Chapter 3 in Public Policy in an Entrepreneurial Economy, 2008, pp 67-93 from Springer Abstract: Abstract The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, with the purpose of improving corporate disclosure integrity and restoring investor confidence, seems to have generated unintended consequences on small entrepreneurial business. A theoretical analysis of both the benefits and costs of SOX implies that while SOX certainly plays a positive role in reducing the agency problem and information asymmetry for entrepreneurial firms, it has also imposed disproportionately higher direct compliance cost on those firms, and incurred tremendous opportunity costs. This is explored using data on the “going public” tendencies and venture capital patterns of these firms. The author finds that SOX has affected not only the tendency of firms to go private but also observes that these firms are smaller as a result of SOX possibly the result of increased compliance costs. Policy recommendations are made accordingly. Keywords: Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX); small entrepreneurial business; going-private; compliance cost; computer software industry (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:inschp:978-0-387-72663-2_3 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-72663-2_3 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in International Studies in Entrepreneurship from Springer |
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