Do newly public acquirers benefit or suffer from their pre-IPO affiliations with underwriters and VCS?

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1257-1289

  Arikan, Asli M ^a   Capron, Laurence ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

corporate strategy; newly public acquirers; post IPO acquisition returns; relational resources; resource redeployment; signaling value

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGIES; NEWLY PUBLIC ACQUIRERS; POST-IPO ACQUISITION RETURNS; RELATIONAL RESOURCES; RESOURCE REDEPLOYMENT;

SIGNALING;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 78249288120     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.861     Document Type: Article

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