... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Investment Company performance Corporate finances An initial public offering (IPO) normally occurs at the stage when the company's equity funding demands can no longer be satisfied by a single investor or a group of propriety investors...

... with regard to IPOs. Originality/value The paper analyzes the various effects and their interactions on the long‐term performance of IPOs. Yewmun Yip can be contacted at: yyip@usd.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Venture capital Flotation of companies Underwriting Company...

... Publishing Limited 2009 Dividends Cash Profit Company performance Returns We investigate dividend initiation and the reasons firms begin paying regular cash dividends to shareholders. Numerous explanations for the convention of dividends have been proposed and tested (Ang, 1987...

... managers in the resulting firm. In fact, they document that the “vast majority” of target CEOs who exit the firm remain unemployed following the merger (Hartzell et al., 2004 , p. 41). Acquisitions and mergers Company performance Incentives (psychology) Over the past several decades...

... and performance in issuing firms operating in France, where family‐controlled IPOs are a common model of corporate governance. Salim Chahine can be contacted at: salim.chahine@aub.edu.lb © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Family firms Corporate governance Company performance Shareholders...

... at: m.goergen@shef.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Corporate ownership Company performance Shareholders Germany United Kingdom It is widely believed that the separation of ownership and control leads to divergence of interests between managers and shareholders. The main...

... Company performance Share values Strategic management Decision making United Kingdom There is a vast body of empirical literature on the two main anomalies in initial public offerings (IPOs), which are the high initial returns and the subsequent bad long‐run returns. Past research has shown...

... point of view. Company performance Forecasting Performance measures Italy So that if x → x + 1 then O(x) → O(x)eβ₁, in other words an increase in x produces a multiple increase of eβ₁ in the odds of success. Note...

... in the industry Company Performance: J. Long run level of firm profitability K. Growth rate of sales or revenue L. Financial strength 21 Adapted from Khandwalla (1977). Response Adapted from Gordon and Narayanan (1984). scale: 1= Of negligible intensity, Response scale:1= Very low, 4= 7= Extremely intense. About...

... MCB UP Limited 2002 Accounting research Ranking Company performance Share prices USA Volume 28 Number 4 2002 19 The Influence of Standard and Poor s Ranking Changes on Stock Price Performance by Abraham Mulugetta, Hormoz Movassaghi, Raquib Zaman, School of Business, Ithaca College...