Dissertation
Three essays on foreign firms' capital raising and their survivability in the US: Isomorphism, Founder-CEO, BOD and TMT Dynamics, and Alliance
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
01/2015
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/109881
Abstract
This dissertation tried to understand the patterns and the degree to which new foreign firms raise capital and survive in the U.S stock market. We focus on isomorphism, alliance networks, and managerial actions. The first dissertation paper investigates whether foreign initial public offering (IPO) firms which exhibit stronger isomorphism to the characteristics of U.S. domestic IPO firms attain higher valuation from market investors. When analyzing 200 foreign IPO firms, we found that while board capital isomorphism (U.S education and work experience) has no significant effect on IPO performance, IPO process isomorphism has significant effects on foreign firms' IPO performance.
The second essay tests the effects of fonder-CEO and BOD and dynamics of top management team on foreign IPOs survivability. This study reports that Founder-CEO duality and new added BOD work experience are important to foreign IPO firm's survival. The results indicate that there is no universal optimal board leadership structure, and companies should select the most appropriate model depending on their own organizational characteristics and business environment.
Finally, the third essay examines how alliance partnerships affect the survivability of foreign firms in the U.S stock market. I show that the number of alliances with U.S firms that a foreign IPO firm makes in the post-IPO stage is positively related to firm's survivability and that more diverse portfolios yield a net benefit to the firm with diminishing and eventually negative impact to firm's survivability. The implication for this research is that it may provide guidance for foreign firms which decide to list their stock and try to survive in the U.S.
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- Title
- Three essays on foreign firms' capital raising and their survivability in the US: Isomorphism, Founder-CEO, BOD and TMT Dynamics, and Alliance
- Creators
- SangYoun Lee
- Contributors
- John B Cullen (Advisor)Jean L Johnson (Committee Member)Arvin Sahaym (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Carson College of Business
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 118
- Identifiers
- 99900581529601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation