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Organization Capital and the Cost of Equity Financing in Medium‐Sized Manufacturing Firms

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  • Najah Attig
  • Sadok El Ghoul

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We examine the effects of organization capital—evident in management quality practices—on firms’ implied cost of equity. We show that superior management practices decrease firms’ cost of equity capital. This novel finding, robust to a battery of sensitivity analyses and to endogeneity bias, highlights the importance of superior management practices in improving firms’ financing conditions. In sum, this study demonstrates that the quality of management practices maps onto firms’ financing conditions, stressing the value relevance of intangible assets. Les auteurs étudient l'incidence du capital organisationnel — qui se manifeste dans la qualité des méthodes de gestion — sur le coût implicite des capitaux propres pour les entreprises. Ils montrent que des méthodes de gestion de qualité supérieure diminuent le coût des capitaux propres pour les entreprises. Cette constatation nouvelle, qui résiste à une batterie d'analyses de sensibilité et à la distorsion de l'endogénéité, met en lumière l'importance du rôle de méthodes de gestion de qualité supérieure dans l'amélioration des conditions de financement des entreprises. En somme, l’étude démontre que la qualité des méthodes de gestion se superpose aux conditions de financement des entreprises, ce qui souligne la pertinence des actifs incorporels au chapitre de l’évaluation.

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  • Najah Attig & Sadok El Ghoul, 2018. "Organization Capital and the Cost of Equity Financing in Medium‐Sized Manufacturing Firms," Contemporary Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 35(3), pages 1616-1644, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:coacre:v:35:y:2018:i:3:p:1616-1644
    DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12329
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