Evidence of Entrepreneurial Resources: Firm Founder Effects on the Performance, Governance, and Product Level of the Firm at Initial Public Offering
type: CreativeWork
description: This research concluded that (1) there is a wide variety of firm types presenting themselves for initial public offering in the U.S.; (2) research to date on IPO's in both the Finance and organizational literature has not adequately addressed this variance; (3) founders are involved in the top management of firms at IPO in various roles (employee and board of directors) with varying equity positions; and (4) evidence for the influence of founders in top management at IPO on important performance and governance variables was collected while holding important firm, industry, and macro-environmental variables constant.
abstract: This research concluded that (1) there is a wide variety of firm types presenting themselves for initial public offering in the U.S.; (2) research to date on IPO's in both the Finance and organizational literature has not adequately addressed this variance; (3) founders are involved in the top management of firms at IPO in various roles (employee and board of directors) with varying equity positions; and (4) evidence for the influence of founders in top management at IPO on important performance and governance variables was collected while holding important firm, industry, and macro-environmental variables constant.
author: Nelson, Teresa Esther
language: eng
keywords: Economics, Finance
date published: 2015-09-25T22:21:49Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:26:23Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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