The influence of people on the performance of IPO firms

Business Horizons

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 271-276

  Certo, S Trevis ^a   Holmes Jr , R Michael ^a   Holcomb, Tim R ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CEOs; Firm performance; IPO; Top management teams (TMTs); Underpricing; Venture capitalists (VCs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249011896     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2007.02.006     Document Type: Note

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