Foreign IPO capital market choice: Understanding the institutional fit of corporate governance |
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| Authors: | Curt B Moore R Greg Bell Igor Filatotchev Abdul A Rasheed |
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| Institution: | 1. Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, U.S.A.;2. Graduate School of Management, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas, U.S.A.;3. Sir John Cass Business School, City University London, London, U.K. and Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria;4. University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | While product market choices have been central to strategy formulation for firms in the past, the integration of financial markets makes the choice of capital markets an equally important strategic decision. We advance a comparative institutional perspective to explain capital market choice by firms making an IPO in a foreign market. We find that internal governance characteristics (founder‐CEO, executive incentives, and board independence) and external network characteristics (prestigious underwriters, degree of venture capitalist syndication, and board interlocks) are significant predictors of foreign capital market choice by foreign IPO firms. Our results suggest foreign IPO firms select a host market where the firms' governance characteristics and third party affiliations fit the host market's institutional environment. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | foreign IPO governance market choice |
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