Finance Impact of corporate governance on the valuation of IPOs in Pakistan stock exchange listed Firms. A moderating role of the family Ownership.

Abstract

The objective of our study is to investigate the impact of the corporate governance on the IPO performance with moderating impact of the family ownership. To investigate that relationship, we used the data of IPOs registered from 2008 to 2017 in Pakistan Stock exchange. We used the OLS methods to analysis of the data. Our findings shows that Board independence (BIND) has positive significant relationship with IPO return, it means that independent directors have the more technical knowledge and experience in maintaining the IPO return and making the strong policy for the organizations. CEO duality has the significant negative relationship with IPO return with (P=0.0833), it means that when CEO has the combine rule then decisions are not distributed, and monopoly existed in decisions that leads to the negative impact on the IPO performance. Board diligence, Board size, ownership concentration and gender diversity have no impact are being seen in our analysis. In the moderating effect of the family ownership in reference to board diligence (BD) the results changed to significant positive relationship, it means that with the family-owned firms when board meetings increased then increased in the IPO return due to some factors. With the moderation of the family ownership the results of the Board independence also improved that shows the role of the family-owned firm in between them. Women in the board that means the gender diversity has no impact but with the moderating effect of the family ownership women in the board has significant positive impact.

This study is helpful for the financial managers, investors, and the finance students and also for the government, in maintaining the code of the corporate governance.