This study examines the relationship between an independent director's death and CEO acquisitiveness. Using a sample of large U.S. public firms, we find that CEOs who have experienced an independent director's death undertake fewer acquisitions in the post-director death period, in particular...

Existing studies on multinational enterprise (MNE) location strategy assume that MNEs are focused on economic not political objectives. The emergence of globalizing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) requires us to revisit such an assumption because SOEs symbolize national interests of their home...