Corporate Governance and Investors' Perceptions of Foreign IPO Value: An Institutional Perspective
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- 1 February 2014
- journal article
- Published by Academy of Management in The Academy of Management Journal
- Vol. 57 (1), 301-320
- https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2011.0146
Abstract
This article investigates stock market responses to different constellations of firm-level corporate governance mechanisms by focusing on foreign initial public offerings (IPOs) in the United States. We build on sociology-grounded research on financial market behavior and use a “nested” legitimacy framework to explore US investor perceptions of foreign IPO value. Using a fuzzy set theoretic methodology, we demonstrate how different combinations of monitoring and incentive-based corporate governance mechanisms lead to the same level of investor valuation of firms. Moreover, institutional factors related to the strength of minority shareholder protection in a foreign IPO's home country represent a boundary condition that affects the number of governance mechanisms required to achieve high value perceptions among US investors. Our findings contribute to the sociological perspective on comparative corporate governance and the dependencies between organizations and institutions.Keywords
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