The linkage between the interrelationships of a firm's lines of business and corporate financial performance has been the subject of extensive research in the strategy field. Yet very little research has examined this key relationship within firms operating in Continental Europe. This study...

This paper uses a detailed database on corporate operations to investigate the effects of leveraged buyouts on corporate restructuring activity in a sample of 33 large LBO firms. The evidence we present strongly suggests that the governance structure of LBO firms is able to induce managers to...

Significant reductions in barriers to international commerce since the mid-1970s have resulted in markets and industries becoming increasingly integrated across nations. A key consequence of industry globalization has been substantially increased levels of foreign competition in the markets of...

Research on strategic choices available to the firm are often modeled as a limited number of possible decision outcomes and leads to a discrete limited dependent variable. A limited dependent variable can also arise when values of a continuous dependent variable are partially or wholly...