Foreign-owned firms from advanced countries carry the culture of transparency in business transactions that is orthogonal to the culture of hiding and insider dealing in many developing economies and economies in transition. In this paper, we document this using administrative data on reported...

Intro -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Motivation and Problem Statement -- 1.2 Research Questions and Goals -- 1.3 Research Design -- 1.4 Thesis Structure -- 2 Fundamentals of Supply Chain Coordination -- 2.1 Types of Supply Chain Collaborations -- 2.2 The Role of Inter-Organizational Coordination in...

Recent research has found pronounced differences in the level of entrepreneurship and new business formation across various regions and nations. This timely Handbook reveals that the development of new ventures as well as their effects on overall economic growth are strongly shaped by their...