Journal ArticleDOI
An Empirical Study of the Impact of CEO Characteristics on New Firms' Time to IPO*
TLDR
In this article, the authors examine the role of the initial public offering (IPO) in the life of a firm and its evolution in terms of its importance in the stock market.Abstract:
An initial public offering (IPO) is one of the most critical events in the life of a firm. As the IPO market continues to attract attention from both entrepreneurs and investors, research examining...read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Do CEO demographics explain cash holdings in SMEs
Raf Orens,Anne-Mie Reheul +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the idiosyncratic manager-specific influence on corporate cash holdings and found that older CEOs and CEOs without experience in other industries are more concerned with the precautionary motive of cash and less concerned about the opportunity cost of cash, giving rise to higher cash levels compared to younger CEOs with other industry experience.
Journal ArticleDOI
A literature review and emotion-based model of age and leadership: New directions for the trait approach
Frank Walter,Susanne Scheibe +1 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the empirical literature on this issue can be found in this paper, where the authors provide new ground for contemporary research on leadership traits by highlighting the relevance of leaders' age, summarizing current knowledge, and providing new theoretical and empirical directions.
Journal ArticleDOI
Founder effectiveness in leveraging entrepreneurial orientation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the effects of entrepreneurial orientation on firm survival and examine whether founder chief executive officers (CEOs) are more effective than other types of managers at utilizing entrepreneurial orientation at initial public offerings (IPOs).
Journal ArticleDOI
Strategic leadership and leaders in entrepreneurial contexts: A nexus for innovation and impact missed?
TL;DR: In the special issue of the 2016 Special Issue on Strategic Leadership and Entrepreneurship as discussed by the authors, the authors provide a forum for works that build on the constraints, challenges, characteristics, and other salient elements of entrepreneurial settings to advance theory and testing on strategic leadership effects, as well as enrich our understanding of firm behaviour and outcomes in entrepreneurial contexts.
Journal ArticleDOI
CEOs' Passion for Inventing and Radical Innovations in SMEs: The Moderating Effect of Shared Vision
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how a CEO's passion for inventing is associated with radical innovations in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and examine whether the CEO's enthusiasm for innovation is correlated with the success of SMEs.
References
More filters
Book ChapterDOI
Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the link between firm resources and sustained competitive advantage and analyzed the potential of several firm resources for generating sustained competitive advantages, including value, rareness, imitability, and substitutability.
Journal ArticleDOI
A Resource-Based View of the Firm
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the usefulness of analyzing firms from the resource side rather than from the product side, in analogy to entry barriers and growth-share matrices, the concepts of resource position barrier and resource-product matrices are suggested.
Book
The theory of the growth of the firm
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the role of large and small firms in a growing economy and found that large firms are more likely to acquire and merge smaller firms in order to increase their size.
Journal ArticleDOI
Upper Echelons: The Organization as a Reflection of Its Top Managers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize these previously fragmented literatures around a more general "upper echelons perspective" and claim that organizational outcomes (strategic choices and performance levels) are partially predicted by managerial background characteristics.
Book
A Behavioral Theory of the Firm
Richard M. Cyert,James G. March +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of basic concepts in the Behavioral Theory of the Firm, and present a specific price and output model for a specific type of products. But they do not discuss the relationship between the two concepts.