Signaling organizational virtue: An examination of virtue rhetoric, country-level corruption, and performance of foreign ipos from emerging and developed economies

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 230-251

  Payne, G Tyge ^a   Moore, Curt B ^a   Bell, R Greg ^b   Zachary, Miles A ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Corruption; Emerging economies; Ethics; Foreign IPOs; Organizational virtue; Signaling theory; Underpricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883496726     PISSN: 19324391     EISSN: 1932443X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sej.1156     Document Type: Article

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