Foreign direct investment can play an important role in promoting economic growth in post-conflict states. In order to attract the benefits of foreign investment, a host country must ensure foreign investors that they can safely invest there. In post-conflict economies, the physical safety...

This paper investigates the impact of implicit institutions on the decision to become an entrepreneur. Implicit institutions are here defined as mindsets that have developed as the result of norms and traditions and we expect they will have an influence on risk attitudes and opportunity...

This study outlines how the corporate governance of emerging market firms is influenced by corporate affiliation and institutional embeddedness. We argue that the stronger the business group affiliation, the less likely is the emerging market firm to adopt shareholder value-enhancing corporate...