Corporate governance and IPO underpricing in a cross-national sample: A multilevel knowledge-based view

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1174-1185

  Judge, William Q ^a   Witt, Michael A ^b   Zattoni, Alessandro ^c   Talaulicar, Till ^d   Chen, Jean Jinghan ^e   Lewellyn, Krista ^f   Hu, Helen Wei ^g   Shukla, Dhirendra ^h   Bell, R Greg ⁱ   Gabrielsson, Jonas ^j   Lopez, Felix ^k   Yamak, Sibel ^l   Fassin, Yves ^m   McCarthy, Daniel ⁿ   Rivas, Jose Luis ^o   Fainshmidt, Stav ^p   Van Ees, Hans ^q  

^a Old Dominion University ^*  (United States)

^b INSEAD   (Singapore)

^c BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS   (United States)

^j LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^k UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^l GALATASARAY UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^m GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

ⁿ NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AUTÓNOMO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^p FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

corporate governance; cross national sample; IPO underpricing; knowledge based view; multilevel models

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE; CROSS-NATIONAL; IPO UNDERPRICING; KNOWLEDGE-BASED VIEWS; MULTILEVEL MODEL;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 84936951114     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: 10970266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.2275     Document Type: Article

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