Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24416 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 00-68
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
This paper discusses theoretically the different incentives of managers versus firm owners to invest in innovative activities. There are opposing effects concerning R&D intensity in the manager-controlled firm. Our study on the determinants of R&D intensity presents empirical results concerning this question. A sample of German firms with 3,978 observations is used and it turns out that the owner-led firms invest less into R&D than the managerial firms. With respect to the managerled firms, expenditures on R&D depend on the control exerted. If capital shares are widely dispersed and managers are thus only controlled a little by owners, they invest more into R&D. Owner-led firms and managers who are strongly controlled have a very similar R&D intensity.
Subjects: 
Innovative Activity
Managerial versus Owner-led Firms
Incentives
Tobit Regression
JEL: 
C24
O32
D21
O31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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