Stacking The Deck : The Effects of Top Management Backgrounds on Investor Decisions  

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Gulati, Ranjay ; Higgins, Monica C.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Strategic Management Journal vol. 27 no. 1 (Jan. 2006), page 1-26.
Topik: ORGANIZATIONAL; endorsement; entrepreunership; organizational legitimacy; upper echelons; IPOs

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Young firms going public are dependent upon the decisions of investors for a successful public offering. Yet convincing investors to invest is not easy, as young firms have limited track records and thus, face challenges associated with gaining legitimacy in their respective industries. This paper examines ways in which select information about firms undertaking an initial public offering (IPO) can affect investor decisions. Building upon recent research on upper echelons and signaling theory, we propose that the composition of a firm's top management team can signal organizational legitimacy that in turn affects investor decisions. In the context of young firms undertaking an IPO, such signals are critical, especially when objective measures of firm quality are not easily available. We introduce a typology of signals of organizational legitimacy to elaborate on our hypotheses. Analyses of a comprehensive set of data on the career histories of the top management teams of young biotechnology firms show that investor decisions are affected by the extent to which a firm 's top management team has employment affiliations with prominent downstream organizations (e. g., pharmaceutical companies). with a diverse range of organizations, and upon the role experience of one key member of the top management team - the Chief Scientific Officer. We assess and find that these effects are not mediated by the prestige of a firm's lead underwriter ...

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