This paper describes the variables in a freely available database of all emerging growth
firms (EGF) that made an initial stock offering (IPO) on US public markets from 1990 through …

Given the increasing number of women executives in the top management teams of initial
public offering (IPO) firms, the lack of female-led IPO firms is a curious fact, especially since …

[Excerpt] As part of an overall research project exploring the determinants of initial public
offering (IPO) firm success, I examine the effect of having women on the top management …

Purpose–The purpose of this study is to explore how initial public offering (IPO) investors
view female presence on boards of directors in the USA. Design/methodology/approach …

We study the association between the gender of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the
probability that firms go public through an Initial Public Offering (IPO), using data for the full …

The authors examine the effect of having women on the top management teams of initial
public offering (IPO) firms on the organizations' short-and long-term financial performance …

Until the mid-1990s, the study of initial public offerings (IPOs) fell mainly under the purview
of the finance literature. Within the last 10 years, however, management and …

Recently, the lack of diversity in startup leadership has been criticized by public figures and
institutional investors as a signal of inadequate governance. And yet, little is known about …

Issues of social justice underlie the clamour for greater gender balance in top-management.
The present study reveals that pursuit of such social justice is also value-enhancing in …

We set out to examine firms breaking into the top tier of for-profit companies in the US and
Japan to find differences across the two groups. To accomplish this, we conducted a …