Evidence of Entrepreneurial Resources: Firm Founder Effects on the Performance, Governance, and Product Level of the Firm at Initial Public Offering

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Business Administration

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Nelson, Teresa Esther

Contributors dc:contributor

• Thomas, Howard

• Economics, Finance

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9904546

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/84597