Many emerging economies recently have launched ambitious efforts to privatize state-owned enterprises (SOEs). However, not all privatization entails complete ownership transfer from public to private hands. In many industries, especially in infrastructure industries, privatization has often been...

There is a major debate regarding the role of concentrated family ownership and control in large firms, with three positions suggesting that such concentration is (1) good, (2) bad, or (3) irrelevant for firm performance. This article reports two studies to shed further light on this debate....

There is a major debate regarding the role of concentrated family ownership and control in large firms, with three positions suggesting that such concentration is (1) good, (2) bad, or (3) irrelevant for firm value. Why are there such differences? We theorize that the impact of family ownership...

Instead of traditional principal-agent conflicts espoused in most research dealing with developed economies, principal-principal conflicts have been identified as a major concern of corporate governance in emerging economies. Principal-principal conflicts between controlling shareholders and...

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) investing in infrastructure privatization projects in emerging economies – often known as private participation projects – face both market-based and nonmarket-based competition simultaneously. Integrating transaction cost economics, bargaining model, and the...

The rapid social, economic, and politicalchanges in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and East Asia(e.g. Vietnam, China) have earned these nationsthe title of"transition economies." The evolution of entrepreneurial endeavorswithin these nations, both pre and post institutional...