A wide range of interorganizational relationships falls on the global market to multinational hierarchy spectrum, ranging from supplier relationships (Dyer and Chu, 2000) to multinational business groups (Colpan, Hikino, and Lincoln, 2010; Granovetter, 1994). Concurrently, as firms increasingly...

After decades of being primarily a US-based phenomenon, the globalization of hedge fund (HF) activism is increasing at an unprecedented speed. In this chapter, we provide an overview of the current knowledge on HF activism by systematically comparing the phenomenon in the US and outside the US...