Looking attractive until you sell: Earnings management, lockup expiration, and venture capitalists

Journal of Management Studies

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1286-1310

  Nam, Dae Il ^a   Park, Haemin Dennis ^b   Arthurs, Jonathan D ^c  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings management; IPO; Lockup expiration; Negative signals; Venture capitalists

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910017656     PISSN: 00222380     EISSN: 14676486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joms.12093     Document Type: Article

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