"Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) are unique economic and governance events as privately held firms issue common stock or shares to the public for the first time. The governance issues surrounding IPOs are relatively unexamined compared to more established, and usually larger, firms. As such,...

Cover -- Corporate Governance and Initial Public Offerings -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- The birth of the research project -- The first Professional Development Workshop at the Academy of Management meeting -- After the Professional...

This paper focuses on the relationship between corporate governance and corporate performance by initial public offerings (IPOs) of Kazakhstan state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the transition economies of Central Asia. It argues that privatization (i.e., IPO) has different effects depending on...