Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/183419 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 1190
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
We argue that the corporate governance of emerging economy IPO firms is influenced by firm-specific institutionally embedded block ownership groups. Applying an extended institutional logic perspective and using a mixed-effects ordered probit model, our findings from 190 IPO-firms from 22 African countries 2000-2016, support the notion that five major block owner categories (corporate, private equity, non-executive, business group, state) exerts very different influence on African firms' degree of adoption of Anglo-American corporate governance measures. We find that the influence from the various block owner groups is significantly moderated by institutional quality and tribalism, but to different degrees and directions across block owner groups. Our contextually embedded firm-specific results support the criticism of a one-hat-fits-all global and uniform corporate governance model.
Subjects: 
IPO
Corporate Governance Practice
Institutional Theory
Africa
Emerging Economies
JEL: 
G23
G38
M12
M14
M16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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