Literature on the “power of words” has emphasized the importance of a firm's corporate communication as a source of legitimacy and reputation in the eyes of its stakeholders. We argue that it is not just the content or style of a firm's communication about its strategy, but also the...

Extant theory and empirical evidence suggest that strategies of diversification and geographic scope expansion carry benefits as well as costs. However, it is unclear whether the arguments relating diversification and geographic scope expansion with firm performance are applicable in the...

We contribute to the intersection of top executive turnover and compensation research by investigating pay structure implications on turnover, focusing on the second best-paid executive as the one being closest to winning the tournament for the best-paid position. Building on tournament theory...

We analyze the relative importance of firm-, industry-, and country-level factors as determinants of the level of ownership concentration of firms. Building particularly on the work of Demsetz & Lehn (1985), Thomsen & Pedersen (1999; 1997, 1998), and La Porta et al.(1998, 1999), we develop...