In the context of privatization and restructuring in Russia, we test two standard agency theory hypotheses, namely, (1) outside board members and (2) new managers are positively related to firm performance. Based on a survey of 314 privatized firms, the evidence offers little support for the...

Equity-based pay in the form of executive share options (ESOs) is a controversial part of the typical, US-style governance package, and ESOs in Germany are the focus of this paper. A conventional view would see ESOs as a US-style organizational innovation diffusing globally in general, and to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of two distinct geographic pathways to internationalization for small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Regional and global pathways are juxtaposed to study the influence on export performance of selected key intangible...