We examine whether corporate governance matters for firms facing financial distress by investigating the failure rate of Internet firms after the Internet shakeout. We theorize that financial crisis changes the relative costs and benefits of governance mechanisms. As a result, we suggest that...

We are interested in explaining firms' environmental performance, and factors affecting firms' abilities to improve that performance. We investigate the role of technology as a factor in influencing firms' environmental strategies. We also consider whether a firm's primary technology type is a...

It has long been recognized that government support can catalyze the emergence and growth of new industries. But under what conditions does an emergent category of organizations come to receive state support in the first place? In this paper, we theorize how government support for a nascent...