Title
Founder CEOs and Initial Public Offerings: The Role of Narratives, Institutions and Cultural Context
Date of Award
Summer 2016
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Program/Concentration
Business Administration-Management
Committee Director
William Q. Judge
Committee Member
Jing Zhang
Committee Member
Ryan L. Klinger
Committee Member
Mohammad Najand
Abstract
This is a two essay dissertation which explores how founder and non-founder CEOs influence the IPO process and seeks to better understand their impact on IPO performance in a cross-national set of firms. Essay 1 addresses the question ‘how founder and non-founder CEOs’ narratives are portrayed differently in business media.’ Using insights from the narrative paradigm and utilizing qualitative content analysis for 1,057 units of data, I find that founders and non-founders’ media narratives differ in three important ways based on the amount of personal information about founders, how founders talk about their business operations, and positive and negative name association.
Essay 2 addresses the related question of ‘how does national context influence the relationship between founder CEO presence and IPO long-run performance across multiple nations?’ Using insights from upper echelon theory and utilizing hierarchical linear modeling to analyze over 1,000 firms, I find that founder CEOs perform best in IPO firms in a national context where managerial discretion is low, uncertainty avoidance is high, and fewer firms have founders as CEO.
DOI
10.25777/9df1-a091
ISBN
9781369175769
Recommended Citation
Tupper, Christina H..
"Founder CEOs and Initial Public Offerings: The Role of Narratives, Institutions and Cultural Context"
(2016). Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Dissertation, , Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/9df1-a091
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/management_etds/2
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