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Foreign Ownership and Firm Innovation: Evidence from Korea

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  • Denis Yongmin Joe
  • Frederick Dongchuhl Oh
  • Heechan Yoo

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This study examines whether foreign equity investment promotes domestic firms’ innovation activities. Using panel data on the Korean firms during the 1999–2013 period, we find that foreign ownership has a positive effect on firms’ innovation activities. Furthermore, we also show that, as compared to non-chaebol firms, chaebol firms’ innovation activity becomes much greater with the increase of foreign ownership. Finally, we investigate industry-level spillover effects of innovation. Specifically, we find that foreign ownership promotes innovation activities via forward linkage, the effect of which is also more pronounced in chaebol firms.

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  • Denis Yongmin Joe & Frederick Dongchuhl Oh & Heechan Yoo, 2019. "Foreign Ownership and Firm Innovation: Evidence from Korea," Global Economic Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(3), pages 284-302, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:glecrv:v:48:y:2019:i:3:p:284-302
    DOI: 10.1080/1226508X.2019.1632729
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    1. Ioannis N. Kallianiotis & Iordanis Petsas, 2020. "The Effectiveness of the Single Mandate of the ECB and the Dual of the Fed," Journal of Applied Finance & Banking, SCIENPRESS Ltd, vol. 10(4), pages 1-11.
    2. Lee, Junyong & Oh, Frederick Dongchuhl, 2024. "Do foreign investors make firms more transparent? Evidence from Korea," Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
    3. Almodóvar, Paloma & Nguyen, Quyen T.K. & Verbeke, Alain, 2021. "An integrative approach to international inbound sources of firm-level innovation," Journal of World Business, Elsevier, vol. 56(3).
    4. Michael Machokoto & Tesfaye T. Lemma & Ouarda Dsouli & Rebecca Fakoussa & Eghosa Igudia, 2024. "Coupling men‐to‐women: Promoting innovation in emerging markets," International Journal of Finance & Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(3), pages 3656-3677, July.

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