A wide range of interorganizational relationships falls on the global market to multinational hierarchy spectrum, ranging from supplier relationships (Dyer and Chu, 2000) to multinational business groups (Colpan, Hikino, and Lincoln, 2010; Granovetter, 1994). Concurrently, as firms increasingly...

New public management emphasizes the organizational and behavioral aspects of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The main assumption is that, if governments constitute SOEs as "market" enterprises and allow their management to follow the logic of the "market," SOEs will become productive,...

We find that firms appoint outside directors when the time of extending takeover defense measures at annual shareholders' meetings arrives. In contrast, firms do not change their board structures when they need not extend defense measures. We observe this strategic switching among firms whose...

"This volume unites the perspective of business ethics with approaches from strategic management, economics, law, political science, and with philosophical reflections on the theory of Corporate Citizenship and New Governance"--Back cover

GRC als Akronym für Governance, Risk- und Compliance-Management wird gegenwärtig in der Unternehmenspraxis überwiegend als Schlagwort aufgegriffen und durch isolierte, kurzfristige Initiativen umgesetzt. GRC wird mehrheitlich als Bürde gesehen und die Integrationsmöglichkeiten sowie die...