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TY - JOUR
T1 - Does culture affect the performance of private equity buyouts?
AU - Hammer, B.
AU - Hinrichs, H.
AU - Schwetzler, B.
PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - This paper uses GLOBE’s performance orientation (PO) dimension to investigate the relationship between national culture and private equity (PE) performance. We argue that high PO has negative performance implications as it provides the lowest potential for portfolio firms to benefit from a spillover of the distinct PE performance focus, and vice versa. To test this hypothesis, we analyze operating performance metrics of 946 deals from 26 European countries and exit channels of 5093 global deals from 67 countries. Consistent with the “spillover hypothesis”, we find that higher levels of PO are detrimental to efficiency improvements and increase the probability for unsuccessful exits. These findings hold after addressing endogeneity concerns, confounding and measurement error.
AB - This paper uses GLOBE’s performance orientation (PO) dimension to investigate the relationship between national culture and private equity (PE) performance. We argue that high PO has negative performance implications as it provides the lowest potential for portfolio firms to benefit from a spillover of the distinct PE performance focus, and vice versa. To test this hypothesis, we analyze operating performance metrics of 946 deals from 26 European countries and exit channels of 5093 global deals from 67 countries. Consistent with the “spillover hypothesis”, we find that higher levels of PO are detrimental to efficiency improvements and increase the probability for unsuccessful exits. These findings hold after addressing endogeneity concerns, confounding and measurement error.
KW - Private equity
KW - leveraged buyouts
KW - exit channel
KW - operating performance
KW - culture
U2 - 10.1007/s11573-017-0886-0
DO - 10.1007/s11573-017-0886-0
M3 - Journal article
VL - 88
SP - 393
EP - 469
JO - Journal of Business Economics
JF - Journal of Business Economics
SN - 1861-8928
ER -