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Essays On The Role Of Competitor-Specific Human Capital On Initial Public Offerings (Ipos) Performance, Tapan Seth
Essays On The Role Of Competitor-Specific Human Capital On Initial Public Offerings (Ipos) Performance, Tapan Seth
Wayne State University Dissertations
This dissertation splits the idea of competitor-specific human capital into two types: competitor-specific-direct (CSD) human capital and competitor-specific-indirect (CSI) human capital, and inspects how these two types of human capital held by IPO Top Management Team (TMT) members are associated with IPO performance. Furthermore, by utilizing research on human capital, competitive dynamics, and knowledge-based view of the firm, this dissertation identifies important antecedents that result in higher degree of impact of such human capital on the IPO firm, and IPO firm's capabilities absorb such knowledge that results in higher valuations at IPO. By employing a multi-year panel data of new …