This study looks at how the corporate governance of family-owned business groups, the most dominant form of private sector organizing in Asia, deals with different forms of corruption during the course of common business transactions. As a part of an ethnographic study conducted in 2007 to look...

The formation of (domestic) Business Groups (BGs) has been a common phenomenon in developing countries around the world, and more specifically in emerging market economies. This paper analyzes the current contribution of Mexico's 500 largest enterprises to economic (and social) development; and...

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the most attractive industries in emerging markets at a static point in time (2007) based on evidence from the companies that have succeeded in them. We examined the World's 2,000 largest public companies in terms of profits, of which 428 were created...

We use static and dynamic panel data model specifications to address the relationship between business groups and tax avoidance, controlling for firm-specific and regional tax avoidance determinants.This paper aims to determine whether Spanish corporate groups and complex group networks have...