Becker-Blease, John R. - In: Journal of Corporate Finance 17 (2011) 4, pp. 947-958
I examine the relation between the presence of governance provisions and corporate innovation for a sample of firms between 1984 and 1997. I find a positive relation between four proxies for innovation and the broad Gompers, Ishii, and Metrick (2003) Index. However, in subsample analyses, I find...