International business research has long acknowledged the importance of regional factors for foreign direct investment ("FDI") by multinational corporations ("MNCs"). However, significant differences when defining these regions obscure the analysis about how and why regions matter. In response,...

Corruption poisons corporations in America and around the world and has devastating consequences for the entire social fabric. In this paper, we review the main studies on corruption in different "societies of organizations," and suggest that further research needs to be done on the genesis of...

This study directly tests how, to what extent, and in what ways different institutional levels influence organizational action. It responds to the call for multi-level research in institutional theory, as prior research has mostly focused on studying one level of analysis. We examine how...

A common finding in research on mergers and acquisitions (M&As) is that these deals fail during integration in part due to a lack of connectivity with regard to the human side of merging organizations. A dilemma is that employees from the merging firms need to learn how to work together in the...

This paper analyzes corporate governance systems in five Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela. We account for the broader institutional environment by explaining changes over time as well as existing corporate governance systems. We use a stakeholder...

This paper analyzes data on the largest mergers and acquisition (M&A) announcements in the 1990s and the contextual factors that determine their completion or withdrawal. Drawing on institutional theory, we argue that the completion of an M&A is more likely to the extent that the institutional...

Intercorporate relations represent the structure of a country's economic organization and influence key outcomes such as a country's overall competitiveness. Research on this topic has focused on the nature of these relations in terms of directorship interlocks, the incentives to establish them,...

Analyzing 247 French and Spanish listed companies, we evaluate the influence of the ownership structure and the board of directors on the demand for external audit services. We argue that controlling shareholders influence the priorities of the board to focus on the provision of resources rather...

We seek to bring to the core of the study of comparative corporate governance analysis the idea that within countries and industries, there exist multiple configurations of firm level characteristics and governance practices leading to effective corporate governance. In particular, we propose...

The turning to the XXI century has been marked by reforms in corporate governance practices around the world. Whether due to shocks caused by the economic crisis in East Asia, Russia and Latin America, or by financial scandals in the United States and Europe, the fact is that the way of doing...