Dries Bourgois
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View article: Same owner, different impact: How responses to performance feedback differ across a private equity investor's portfolio firms
Same owner, different impact: How responses to performance feedback differ across a private equity investor's portfolio firms Open
Research Summary Private equity (PE) investors invest in a portfolio of firms, setting new, ambitious performance aspirations and providing monitoring and value‐adding services to help management attain these aspirations. Integrating a beh…
View article: The sandwich game: Founder-CEOs and forecasting as impression management
The sandwich game: Founder-CEOs and forecasting as impression management Open
Drawing on impression management and social exchange theory, we examine the use of positively biased forecasts by (non-)founder-CEOs as an impression management tactic vis-à-vis their existing investors. Contrary to their non-founder count…