Information flows are of critical importance for IPO pricing. We posit that individual investment bankers use personal social capital to address information problems during IPOs. Using a unique database of mutual fund bids in the Chinese IPO market, we find that when an investment banker has a...

Purpose: The purpose is to investigate how a retailer identifies critical network actors and gains their support when entering an emerging market. and to examine the role of a firm's relationships with different types of actors on the new market.Design/methodology/approach: The study is of an...

Qualitative case study research has frequently been criticised for being less systematic and objective than other approaches. Ambiguity in the way case studies are selected, empirically conducted and analysed, often exists and can hinder the positive dissemination of research. This paper aims to...