Australian firms hire an increasing number of foreign directors who bring various cultural perspectives to their boards' conversations. We evaluate the effect of board cultural diversity contributed by foreign directors on firm performance for a sample of Australian companies, constituents of...

Purpose: Culture and institutions are among the essential sources of comparative advantage in international trade and may influence a country's FDI influx. This paper aims to analyze the impact of cultural distance (CD) and institutional distance (ID) on the efficiency of China's outward...

Purpose: Omnichannel retail are catching increasing attention from multiple research area, due to its widespread and essential application in retailing industry. The principal object of this paper is to systematically review current studies on omnichannel retail in information systems,...

The crystal habit controls the microstructure heterogeneity of the crystalline rocks that significantly affects their mechanical behaviors. However, thus far, this effect has not been quantitatively characterized. Here we establish a grain-based model to investigate the effect of crystal habit...