1. Theoretical and practical approaches to diversity -- 2. Diversity in the financial and banking industry -- 3. Diversity in the oil and gas industry -- 4. Diversity in the tech industry -- 5. Diversity in the telecommunication industry -- 6. Diversity in the media and entertainment industry --...

1. International enterpreneurs : the founding and success of a born global fashion firm -- 2. Building a business on ethnic ties : a study of the effects of ethnic networks on entrepreneurial activities -- 3. Cross-cultural research as autoethnography : the challenge and opportunity of studying...

Theoretical and practical approaches to diversity -- Diversity in the financial and banking industry -- Diversity in the oil and gas industry -- Diversity in the tech industry -- Diversity in the telecommunication industry -- Diversity in the media and entertainment industry -- Diversity in the...

Based on U.S. data, the returns on foreign direct investment in emerging markets are shown to be substantially higher than would be suggested by official balance of payments statistics. This paper identifies the determinants of FDI profitability in 43 industrialized and developing countries....

This paper presents a model of a multinational firm''s optimal debt policy that incorporates international taxation factors. The model yields the prediction that a multinational firm''s indebtedness in a country depends on a weighted average of national tax rates and differences between national...

This paper examines the impact of thin capitalization rules that limit the tax deductibility of interest on the capital structure of the foreign affiliates of US multinationals. We construct a new data set on thin capitalization rules in 54 countries for the period 1982-2004. Using confidential...

The literature on the investment technology of foreign versus domestic investors has inconclusive results. This paper revisits the question, with a focus on decomposing portfolio performance into asset allocation and security selection. We document signicant differences in exposure to systematic...