Recent trends in corporate governance research show an increased concern with the relationships between stock ownership and corporate performance, but what is the impact of different types of Private Equity Investors? Does the institutional environment have an effect? A research team including Professor Igor Filatotchev, Professor of Corporate Governance and Strategy, have investigated this further.

Previous research has investigated the idea that the presence of large-block shareholders are effective means to control agency conflicts, but research on the relationship between ownership concentration and performance has provided mixed results.

This paper combines the theory of multiple agency perspective and the institutional perspective and focuses on two types of private equity investors (venture capitalists and business angels) in firms that have recently undergone an IPO .

Do the findings support the argument that concentrated ownership improves IPO's performance? The full article is now available below for you to read.