Focusing on the bribery scandal plaguing global healthcare giant GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK), this manuscript documents and offers proposals to redress the myriad of harms caused when multinational corporations (MNCs) accept bribery as an unspoken cost of doing business in connected societies....

El proceso de acercamiento entre India y la RPCh, a partir de la visita de Hu Jintao al Primer Ministro Indio Manmohan Singh en noviembre de 2006, tras una década sin promoción de las relaciones bilaterales a ese nivel dirigencial, y la Declaración Conjunta resultante de ese encuentro,...

This study examines the effect of network’s structural holes, i.e., the absence of a link between two contacts who are both linked to an actor, on product development and profit growth of software ventures in two different institutional contexts of China and Russia. Using interview data of 159...

In the recent decade China witnessed an upsurge of privatization of small and medium state-owned enterprises (SOEs). In contrast to the consequent sharp reduction in the number of firms, however, the estimated share of broadly-defined SOEs that includes limited liabilities companies controlled...

This study examines the effect of network's structural holes, i.e., the absence of a link between two contacts who are both linked to an actor, on product development and profit growth of software ventures in two different institutional contexts of China and Russia. Using interview data of 159...

Purpose of this paper is to investigate whether HR slack leads to improve firm performance, and what is the impact of HR slack in absolute and in relative terms on firm performance in a developing country. It also examines how ownership types moderate the HR slack-performance relationship. The...

This paper examines the pattern and magnitude of China’s outward foreign direct investment (FDI) to the EBRD’s countries of operations. We first analyse the recent trends of China’s outward FDI, with sectoral and geographical distributions, and assess the implications for the transition...

China and Romania have a common starting point – the planned socialist economy. Depending on the political, historical and geographical situation, and consistent with the options of each of these countries, China and Romania have evolved in different ways in the recent decades from the...

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyze the motive of family-controlled firms to pay cash dividends in China. Design/methodology/approach–Using some econometrical models, the paper designs and conducts a series of empirical research on cash dividends behavior, thus...