Country of Origin and Foreign IPO Legitimacy: Understanding the Role of Geographic Scope and Insider Ownership

By R. G. Bell, Curt B. Moore, Hussam Al-Shammari. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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Emerging economies and institutional quality: Assessing the differential effects of institutional distances on ownership strategy (2016, background): “Recent studies suggest that an EMNC’s stock performance in a developed market can be adversely impacted by the investors’ perceptions of the EMNC’s country of origin (Bell et al., 2008, 2012).”
The Liabilities of Origin: An Emerging Economy Perspective on the Costs of Doing Business Abroad (2010, unknown): “18 corporate governance practices in emerging economies (Bell et al., 2008) and the higher potential for principal-principal conflicts in emerging economy business groups (Young et al.”
Strategic and institutional effects on foreign IPO performance : Examining the impact of country of origin, corporate governance, and host country effects (2012, background): “Recent research has also demonstrated the positive signals emerging market firms send to potential U.S. investors, especially when these organizations concentrate on internationalizing their operations prior to making their first public equity offers in the U.S. (Bell, Moore, and Al-Shammari, 2008).”
The Use of Signals in New-Venture Financing: A Review and Research Agenda (2021, background): “Powerful signals in this context include the level of investor protection (Bell, Moore, & Filatotchev, 2012; Moore, Bell, & Filatotchev, 2010) and the extent of economic freedom in the country of origin (Bell et al., 2008).”
Venturing from emerging economies (2013, unknown): “Indeed, prior research established that operating in high profile and credible locations (Stuart, Hoang, and Hybels, 1999), such as those in DE, could enhance the reputation of a firm from EE (Bell, Moore, and Al-Shammari, 2008).”
Trademarks and Venture Capital Valuation (2014, unknown): “This signal might be sent unintentionally (Janney and Folta, 2003) and could contain multiple messages (Bell et al., 2008; Park and Mezias, 2005), e.”
What Drives New Ventures to Internationalize from Emerging to Developed Economies? (2007, background): “Preliminary evidence of the legitimating effects of investments in DE for EE ventures is provided by Bell, Moore, and Al-Shammari (2007), who show that firms from EE can overcome negative country-of-origin perceptions by engaging in FDI activities in DE, prior to beginning the initial public…”