The relationship between (a) private and public equity market valuations and (b) financial statement information is examined for a sample of 502 venture capital backed companies from six different industries over the 1993-2003 period. Financial statement information explains a sizable component...

Systematic analysis of U.S. capital markets reveals important empirical facts that analytical modeling or empirical research seeking to explain the 1998-2001 movements needs to recognize. There is no single bubble point at which U.S. capital markets had an epiphany in which they realized that...

Management control systems can hinder innovation. However, recent theoretical and empirical work indicates that they can also enhance it. In this paper, this question is investigated using two sequential empirical studies. In the first, a field research design is used to examine the adoption of...

The behavior and determinants of market-to-revenue ratios in public and private capital markets is examined. Three samples are analysed: (1) all publicly traded stocks listed at some time on the New York Stock Exchange/American Stock Exchange/National Association of Securities Dealers Automated...

This study is the first to examine the role offinancial statement information in a broad cross-section of industries in theventure-backed, private equity market. First, a discussion of prior research onventure-backed private equity valuation is offered. Next, data on the privateand public equity...

Purpose: This study aims to present multi-layered embeddedness and explore the main and interaction effects of political embeddedness on the performance of private enterprises in China. This study tests multi-layered embeddedness through interaction effects between three layers, namely,...