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Wall Street Reaction to Women in IPO's Structuring
For High Reliability: HR Practices And Mindful Processes In Reliability
- Seeking Organizations "IPO.itis,
An Examination of Symptoms and Remedies for High Growth – High
Change Organizations" By Theresa M. Welbourne, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Michigan Business School and CEO, eePulse, Inc. "The
Human Resource Executive in Initial Public Offering Firms" Academy of Management Journal, 1999,42(6),616-629 Award Winning Paper - 1999 Human Resource Scholar Achievement Award,
Academy of Management "Valuing
Employees: A Success Strategy For Fast Growth Firms and Fast Paced
Individuals" Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (1997). Proceedings of the 17th Annual Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Center for Entrepreneurship Studies, Babson College Award Winning Paper for empirical studies of growth strategies-performance relationships This research considers the effect of pace on employee and firm performance. Firms that place a high value on employees and grow at a faster pace achieve higher stock price growth. Also, employees that work at a faster pace and feel valued are higher performers. "Predicting
the Performance of Initial Public Offerings: Should Human Resource
Management be in the Equation?" Academy of Management Journal 39(4), 891-919. 1996. This study examines how human resource value and organization-based rewards predict initial investor reaction and long-term survival. "Wall
Street Likes its Women: An Examination of the Top Management Teams
of Initial Public Offerings" Working Paper This study examines the effect of having women on the top management teams of IPO firms on the organizations' short and long-term financial performance. "How
New Venture Initial Public Offerings Benefit from International Operations:
A Study of Human Resource Value." Published. International
Journal of Human Resource Management (June 2001). "The
People Performance Balance in IPO Firms: The effect of Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) Financial Orientation." Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. (Fall 2000) This study examines one factor that may influence the firm's choice between maximizing short-term financial performance (doing well at the IPO) or long-term performance (maximizing HR value). The decision on how to balance these forces is shaped in part by the Chief Executive Officer's (CEO) functional background. "Using
Ownership as an Incentive: Does the "Too Many Chiefs" Rule Apply
in Entrepreneurial Firms?" Group and Organization Management 24(4), 438-460. 1999. Award Winning Paper - 1999 Sara and George MCCune Best Paper Award, Group and Organization Management Journal This study examines the effect of chief executive officer (CEO) ownership, executive team ownership, and all employee ownership in addition to the moderating effect of risk on firm survival and stock price. "Getting
Past the "Entrepreneurial Growth Ceiling": A Longitudinal Study of
IPO Firm Growth Through Solution Driven Strategies" Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (1998). Proceedings of the 18th Annual Entrepreneurship Research Conference, Center for Entrepreneurship Studies, Babson College This paper introduces the concept of the Entrepreneurial Growth Ceiling (EGC). It argues that new venture IPOs hit the EGC prior to their IPO, and a firm's ability to break through the ceiling quickly (within a year following the IPO) is critical for long-term performance. IPO/Fast
Growth Research "Human Resource Management in Initial Public Offering
Firms: Validation of a Control Orientation Typology" Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence, and Growth, v3. 1997. This study proposes a theory-based typology of human resource control and validates it in a sample of initial public offering firms. "Does
the Leader Make a Difference? Effects of Top Executive Personality
on Entrepreneurial Firm Performance" Working Paper 1999 The purpose of this study was to expand research on personality and leadership by investigating the relationship between executive leader personality and firm performance. "Performance
and Growth in Entrepreneurial Firms: What do Unions do?" Managing People In Entrepreneurial Organizations: Learning from the merger of Entrepreneurship and Human Resource Management, Vol. 5, pages 147-174, 2002. This paper explores the effects of union presence on the performance of entrepreneurial firms in the mid-1990s (both at the initial public offering (IPO) and after the event. "Which
Resources Matter in Initial Public Offering Firms? A Longitudinal
Comparison of Five Resources' Contributions to Firm Performance" Submitted to Journal of Management 1998 This study examines which resources executives in initial public offering (IPO) firms think are important to their success two years after the IPO.
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