As prior researchers have suggested, a firm's success in an international market depends on
how well its strategy fits the nonmarket environment, such as formal institutions. This paper …

We survey 336 chief financial officers (CFOs) to compare practice to theory in the areas of
initial public offering (IPO) motivation, timing, underwriter selection, underpricing, signaling …

Deceptive signalling occurs when resource seekers provide communication or observable
behaviour that seems to indicate high‐quality attributes yet actually misleads about the …

We use the context of a company's initial public offering (IPO) of equity securities as a capital‐
markets setting to empirically study the economic consequences of endogenous disclosure …

Derrien [2005. Journal of Finance 60, 487–521] and Ljungqvist et al.[2006. Journal of
Business] build upon the work of Miller [1977. Journal of Finance 32, 1151–1168] and claim …

This paper examines the effect of strategic information disclosure and corporate governance
on the stock market performance of initial public offering (IPO) firms in France. It argues that …

Integrating signaling and institutional perspectives, we develop and test hypotheses relating
institutions and corporate governance to foreign IPO success. Our investigation highlights …

At the time of an initial public offering (IPO), firms seek to maximize their stock market value.
The authors theorize and show that a firm's innovation potential—firm outputs and activities …

Because of the high economic uncertainty inherent in the privatization process, financial
markets in China are characterized by large information asymmetry. Using data of 348 non …

Entrepreneurs attempt to persuade potential investors that their new ventures are both
credible and worthy of funding. A long line of research on entrepreneurial impression …