The high competition in the global Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) industry has forced investors to allocate more capital to emerging markets. The fast growing PE and VC activities in those countries raise the question of whether the cost with limited attention will surpass the...

This paper investigates venture capitalists' monitoring of managerial behaviour by examining their impact on CEO pay-performance sensitivity across various controlling structures in Chinese firms. We find that the effectiveness of venture capitalists' monitoring depends on different types of...

The high competition in the global Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) industry has forced investors to allocate more capital to emerging markets. The fast growing PE and VC activities in those countries raise the question of whether the cost with limited attention will surpass the...

We integrate the institutional perspective with research on the governance role of private equity firms in an investigation of Founder-CEO successions in Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in emerging markets. Using a unique, hand-collected and comprehensive sample of 191 firms having undertaken...