Corporate Governance and Initial Public Offerings

An International Perspective

Alessandro Zattoni, William Judge

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781107016866
• eBook ISBN:
  9781139335232
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Corporate Governance
• Index: Business

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, they provide a unique context to study corporate governance and its development around the world. Based on a collaborative international research project, this book analyses the corporate governance of IPOs in twenty-one countries, each of which is characterized by different governance environments and different levels of IPO activity. The end result is a broad and deep assessment of governance practices and IPO activity for an array of economies that represent roughly 80 percent of the global economy. These chapters collectively provide new insights into what a global theory of corporate governance might look like and offer guidance to policy makers and academics regarding national governance configurations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Corporate Governance and Initial Public Offerings
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Contributors
• Preface
• 1: Introduction
• 2: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in Australia
• 3: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in Belgium
• 4: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in Canada
• 5: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in China
• 6: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in Germany
• 7: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in India
• 8: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in Israel
• 9: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in Italy
• 10: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in Japan
• 11: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• 12: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in Mexico
• 13: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in the Netherlands*
• 14: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in Nigeria
• 15: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in Russia
• 16: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in Singapore*
• 17: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in Spain*
• 18: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in Sweden
• 19: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in Switzerland
• 20: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in Turkey
• 21: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in the United Kingdom
• 22: Corporate governance and initial public offerings in the United States
• Index
• Index of names