This paper is built upon previous work concerning how three factors—an upper echelon’s compensation, the total compensation level of a chief executive officer (CEO), and compensation gaps between a CEO and a top management team (TMT)—affect a firm’s international expansion level. Using...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of the compensation level and the gap between the chief executive officer (CEO) and the top management team (TMT) with respect to the rhythm of firm internationalization. Design/methodology/approach – The approach takes the form...

Since Berle and Means [(1933). The Modern Corporation and Private Property. New York: Macmillan] raised the issue of separation of ownership and control some 70 years ago, corporate governance remains one of the most popular research topics in disciplines ranging from law and economics to...

Using a data set of 220 Taiwanese public firms with 2,200 observations over a ten-year period representing Taiwan’s economic takeoff period in the late 1990s, as well as six follow-up interviews conducted with top managers several years hence, this research examines the propensity of an...