Australian firms hire an increasing number of foreign directors who bring various cultural perspectives to their boards' conversations. We evaluate the effect of board cultural diversity contributed by foreign directors on firm performance for a sample of Australian companies, constituents of...

Using a novel Hungarian dataset on firms and their Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), we estimate the impact of hiring expatriate CEOs. By examining foreign acquisitions where the new owner replaces the incumbent CEO with an expatriate or a local CEO, we address the selection into both acquisition...

Im Zentrum des Hans Jobst Pleitner gewidmeten Bandes stehen die Klein- und Mittelunternehmen. Über fünfzig Beiträge von Kollegen, Partnern in weltweiten Netzwerken und ehemaligen Doktoranden fügen sich zu einem eigentlichen "State-of-the Art"-Werk für den Bereich der KMU zusammen. -- Im...