This paper examines the relationships between the changes in the firm's capital structure and their effects on the firm's market value for three different levels of systematic risk. The underlying assumption of signaling is that when a firm changes its capital structure, its market value might...

Suggests another dimension of research in, and application of, knowledge management. This theoretical paper adopts a conceptual, multi‐disciplinary approach. First, knowledge can be stored and transmitted via institutions. Second, knowledge “subnetworks” or smaller groupings within larger...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze intercultural relations within the European Union, with the 10 new members that have joined in 2004. We define intercultural relations in terms of the difference between the benefits of economic convergence versus the problems of social mobility issues...

The traditional concept of the global triad, which dominates international business, does not incorporate emerging market economies. This paper introduces a different triad based on global corporate governance that includes the Anglo-Saxon, Communitarian, and ‘emerging' business systems. The...

Although Taiwan has become the world's third largestproducer of information technologies, researchers have yet to explore fully thesource of its business success. The focus of this study is the role of publicpolicy and the state in East Asian business systems and in Taiwan inparticular. First,...