EFFECTS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL AND POWER ON SURVIVING TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE: THE CASE OF INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS.
研究了风险投资家和创始人CEO的社会资本与权力如何影响IPO公司的生存，发现管理团队任期、网络嵌入性、创始人CEO持股等因素降低了公司上市后五年内的失败概率。
We examined how social capital and the power of venture capitalists and founder-CEOs affect IPO firm survival. Using data from 218 U.S. initial public offerings conducted in 1992, we found that average management team tenure and an IPO deal’s network embeddedness decreased the likelihood of failure during a firm’s first five years as a public entity. Founder-CEO presence at the time of an IPO interacted with CEO ownership to decrease the likelihood of failure, and CEO ownership and venture capitalist ownership concentration also decreased that likelihood. Evolutionary perspectives on organizations are often accompanied by the presumption that organ-izations face an increased risk of failure early in their lives owing to liabilities of newness (Aldrich, 1999; Stinchcombe, 1965). As organizational goals and patterns of activity become routinized over time, increased reliability in performance and ac-countability for actions taken enhance a firm’s sur-