Firms of all sizes are “joining the conversation” on social media platforms and increasingly
trademarking hashtags related to their products and brands. This added effort to protect …

Drawing on the appropriability–appropriation framework and signaling theory, we
hypothesize that post-IPO firms with higher patent quality use takeover defenses as levers to …

Although trademarks are mentioned in many firms' initial public offering (IPO) prospectuses,
their influences on the IPO valuation process are underexplored. This paper studies the …

This study investigates why newly listed firms become M&A targets shortly after their initial
public offering (IPOs) from the perspective of product innovation. We find strong empirical …

We build a novel comprehensive data set of new product trademarks as an output measure
of product development innovation. We show that risk-taking incentives in CEO …

The study investigates the impact of corporate governance on innovation intensity in three
Asian innovation countries, namely, China, Japan and South Korea, using a sample of listed …

This study examines how options trading influences brand development strategies by
encouraging managerial risk-taking. We find that firms with higher levels of options trading …

We investigate the interplay between corporate innovation (technological and product
innovation) and corporate financing. Splitting up corporate innovation allows for a more …

Using a sample of thirty-six major natural disasters that occurred in the United States
between 1990 and 2015, we investigate the impact of natural disasters on the technological …

Using the passage of the Federal Trademark Dilution Act (FTDA) as an exogenous shock to
trademark protection, we find that stronger trademark protection induces firms to increase …