The impact of corporate political connections and executive’s international experience on Chinese firms’ initial public offerings in the USA
Purpose: Integrating social network theory with signaling theory, the purpose of this research is to examine the impact of corporate political connections and executive’s international experience on Chinese firms initial public offerings (IPOs) performance in the USA. Design/methodology/approach: This study used Securities Data Company (SDC) New Issues database to identify all Chinese firms that went public in the USA between 2003 and 2014. Consistent with previous research, IPO firms excluded from the sample include merger or acquisitions, spin-offs and initial stage listed firms. The final sample size is of 142 Chinese foreign IPOs in the US markets. Findings: This study finds that firms with political connections perform significantly poor than firms without political connections. It shows that US stock markets react to the signals of political connections of Chinese foreign IPOs. In response, the Chinese foreign IPOs can signal international work experience of top executives to US investors. The results show that the executives’ international work experience has significant positive relationships on foreign IPO performance of Chinese firms. Moreover, this study finds that the interaction between corporate political connections and international experience pursues positive effects on the performance of foreign IPOs. Originality/value: This research intends to extend the knowledge of how corporate political connections and international work experience affects the performance of Chinese firms attempting to access US capital markets. To date, scholars have not investigated the influence of corporate political connections on the amount of capital raised by foreign IPOs.
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2019
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Authors: | Amin, Muhammad ; Wu, Jianfeng ; Haque, Md Ziaul |
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Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies. - Emerald, ISSN 2053-4604, ZDB-ID 2763496-6. - Vol. 12.2019, 3 (11.09.), p. 431-450
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Emerald |
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