Despite the Ethiopian government's commitment to attracting foreign direct investment to its emerging manufacturing sector and its shared interests with Chinese private businesses in building profitable investments, relations between Chinese private businesses and the Ethiopian government are...

Boardroom centrality, measured by directorship interlocks, positively influences future firm performance in private firms. The centrality-performance relationship is stronger for private firms, where the reductions in information asymmetry through increased connectedness are likely to decrease...

Firms along the supply chain rely on both public disclosures and private information exchanges to develop forecasts about future performance. In this paper, we examine how a firm’s public and private channels of information sharing with its trading partners affect information spillovers along...

The paper analyzes the impact of institutions on the labor productivity of small and medium-sized private enterprises through the spillover effect from state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The authors used data samples from three datasets: (i) The Annual Enterprise Survey conducted by the General...