IDE et retards d'investissement de l'entreprise domestique au Sénégal : une solution par la gouvernance d'entreprise

SENE, Serigne Moustapha (2008): IDE et retards d'investissement de l'entreprise domestique au Sénégal : une solution par la gouvernance d'entreprise.

Abstract

This paper focuses on agency theory to explain investment behavior difference between private domestic and foreign in Senegalese industry. We put domestic companies into two groups with regard to managerial ownership and institutional ownership. An augmented accelerator model with demand uncertainty is used for that purpose. Empirical checkings have been performed using in panel of 187 firms. The results reveal that investment sensibility to uncertainty, sales and free cash flow is higher in foreign firms. Considering the efforts made by these firms in developing countries to meet international standards, our second area of research proposes managerial ownership to mitigate investment delays of domestic firms. It is showed that domestic firms can benefit from a high sensibility to uncertainty, be less financially constrained and less subject to underinvestment (due to manager extraction funds). A reduction of behavioral delays could be reached via optimal managerial ownership (within 5%-25%); none institutional ownership also improve domestic firms investment.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: FDI and Senegalese domestic firms investment delays : a corporate governance solution
• Language: French
• Keywords: Firm investment, Ownership structure, Agency costs, Managerial ownership, Panel, Senegal
• Subjects: O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O5 - Economywide Country Studies > O55 - Africa; G - Financial Economics > G3 - Corporate Finance and Governance > G31 - Capital Budgeting ; Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies ; Capacity; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C2 - Single Equation Models ; Single Variables > C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models; G - Financial Economics > G3 - Corporate Finance and Governance > G32 - Financing Policy ; Financial Risk and Risk Management ; Capital and Ownership Structure ; Value of Firms ; Goodwill; M - Business Administration and Business Economics ; Marketing ; Accounting ; Personnel Economics > M5 - Personnel Economics > M52 - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects

References

SENE S. M., 2008, "FDI and Senegalese domestic firms investment delays : a corporate governance solution". Mimeo, Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar