After decades of being primarily a US-based phenomenon, the globalization of hedge fund (HF) activism is increasing at an unprecedented speed. In this chapter, we provide an overview of the current knowledge on HF activism by systematically comparing the phenomenon in the US and outside the US...

The growing interest in the configurational perspective to understand causal complexity has brought the spotlight on qualitative comparative analysis (QCA). However, despite that QCA was introduced more than three decades ago and predominantly has been used in the fields of political science and...