2012年(464)
分类: Delphi
2012-05-24 14:15:02
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machinery industry is one of the fastest fields in development. The increase in
the number of corporate forms is a good thing: a varied ecosystem is more
robust. But there are reasons to worry about the decline of an organisation that
has spread prosperity for 150 years.
First, public companies have been
central to innovation and job creation. One reason why entrepreneurs work so
hard, and why venture capitalists place so many risky bets, is because they hope
to make a fortune by going public. IPOs provide young firms with cash to hire
new hands and disrupt established markets. The alternative is to sell themselves
to established firms—hardly a recipe for creative destruction. Imagine if the
fledgling Apple and Google had been bought by IBM.
Second, public companies
let in daylight. They have to publish quarterly reports, hold shareholder
meetings (which have grown acrimonious of late), deal with analysts and
generally conduct themselves in an open manner. By contrast, private companies
and family firms operate in a fog of secrecy.
Third, public companies give
ordinary people a chance to invest directly in capitalism’s most important
wealth-creating machines. The 20th century saw shareholding broadened, as state
firms were privatised and mutual funds proliferated. But today popular
capitalism is in retreat. Fewer IPOs mean fewer chances for ordinary people to
put their money into a future Google. The rise of private equity and the spread
of private markets are returning power to a club of privileged investors.
All
this argues for a change in thinking—especially among the politicians who have
heaped regulations onto Western public companies, blithely assuming that
businessfolk have no choice but to go public in the long run. Many firms now go
(or stay) private to avoid red tape. The result is that ever more business is
conducted in the dark, with rich insiders playing a more powerful
role.
Public companies built the railroads of the 19th century. They filled
the world with cars and televisions and computers. They brought transparency to
business life and opportunities to small investors. Because public companies
sell shares to the unsophisticated, policymakers are right to regulate them more
tightly than other forms of corporate organisation. But not so tightly that
entrepreneurs start to dread the prospect of a public listing. The public
company has long been the locomotive of capitalism. Governments should not
derail it.