A firm's structural position within corporate networks may affect the extent to which it engages in boundary stretching practices. Since social norms support low CEO compensation, offering high CEO compensation in China can be seen as a boundary stretching practice. Setting up a compensation...

Unlike multinational enterprises from developed economies (DE MNEs), MNEs from emerging economies (EE MNEs) commonly do not have absolute ownership advantage in management, technology, and know-how. Yet some of them have recently undertaken aggressive cross-border mergers and acquisitions...