This study examines whether a host country's industry-specific technology advantage increases the propensity of emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) to invest in the host country. The study further explores whether inward FDI in EMNEs' home markets, by generating knowledge...

This paper describes the impression data and corresponding user, creator, and music content card data from NetEase Cloud Music. This data set is collectively supplied by the Revenue Management and Pricing (RMP) Section of INFORMS and NetEase Cloud Music to support data-driven research in...

This study explores whether UK managers behave opportunistically when determining the expected rate of return on pension assets (ERR) during a five year period (1998-2002), and whether this behavior has changed with the transitional adoption of new UK pension accounting rule FRS 17. The...

Interest in promoting entrepreneurship has become a worldwide phenomenon. Yet, empirical evidence suggests that countries vary significantly in their ability to incubate and create new firms. Sources of these differences across countries are not well understood. In this paper, we examine the...

We propose novel proxies to identify firms that use short-term debt to fund long-term investment (SDLI). Using an international sample across 46 countries over the 1990-2015 period, we show that our SDLI proxies are negatively related to debt maturity, and positively related to the sensitivity...

Failure of a prior business provides an opportunity for an entrepreneur to learn in the subsequent entrepreneurial endeavor, but learning from failure is not guaranteed. Why do some entrepreneurs learn less from failure than others? In this study, we propose that a narcissistic personality can...

We investigate the role of pensions as an element of total executive compensation, and the relationship between pensions and performance-based compensation in executive pay. Using hand-collected data on FTSE 100 CEOs and senior executives from 2004-2011, we document that pensions function as a...

We discuss recent developments in real options theory and its applications to strategic management research, examine the potential difficulties in implementing real options in theory and practice, and propose several areas for future research. Our review shows that real options theory has...