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 is the first book to examine fully the inner dynamics of executives in top leadership positions.This empirical examination of the character of leaders covers areas such as personality, values and spirituality, and has been conducted through surveys and in depth interviews. The reader is...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to advance a holistic model of venture capital (VC) firms’ syndication decisions in an emerging economy. When considering syndication with local partners, VC firms consider multiple sources of risk related to firm-specific characteristics (life-cycle,...