This study proposes an integrated framework for successfully implementing collaboration strategies in supply chain (SC) management using a fuzzy decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) and multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach. The study analyses and measures the...

Question/Issue: Institutional and transaction costs theories highlight the idea that group affiliated firms outperform unaffiliated firms in emerging economies. The persistence of superior performance for group affiliated firms is, however, questioned by the fast and recent development of...

Manuscript Type: Literature review.Research Question/Issue: Over the last four decades, research on the relationship between boards of directors and strategy has proliferated. Yet to date there is little theoretical and empirical agreement regarding the question of how boards of directors...

This study explores board tasks performance. Boards of directors fulfil two main tasks: (i) monitoring managers and firm performance, and (ii) providing advice and access to resources. A growing stream of research endeavours to understand what enhances (constrains) boards' engagement into...

Research Question/Issue: The level and effectiveness of investors' protection is considered to foster financial markets development and economic growth. While previous studies focused on the relationship between the institutional setting and investors' protection at country level, we investigate...

The article investigates the relationship between ownership structure and the role played by the board of directors in the strategic decision process. A comparative case study of strategic decision processes indicates that ownership concentration, the nature of shareholders' interests and the...

Research on the acquisition behavior of family firms has produced conflicting theoretical arguments and mixed empirical findings on their propensity to acquire related or unrelated targets. While previous work has mainly focused on firm-level variables, this study examines the environment in...

One key water resource challenge that faces the eastern United States today is how to regulate water withdrawals by offstream users, while preserving the fair sharing philosophy of the common-law Riparian Doctrine. Traditionally, this doctrine requires that riparians (users owning land adjacent...