Much research has examined how and why managers discipline members by removing privileges. However, there has been little research examining the phenomenon of returning privileges to disciplined members, otherwise known as reinstatement. This research introduces reinstatement to the discussion...

This paper examines emergent information systems and technologies and explains under what supply and demand conditions inter-firm modularization of information-based products and services and subsequent vertical de-integration of organizations is more likely. Research in organizational economics...

Alfred Chandler's recent passing is cause to review and celebrate his many contributions to business history. It also presents an opportunity to highlight links between his rich historical analyses concerning organizational and industrial innovation and contemporary management studies of the...

In this paper, we analyze data on the world's largest merger and acquisition (M&A) announcements in the 1990s to explore the relational factors that determine their completion or withdrawal. Existing research on this little understood phenomenon in the M&A process typically focuses on the...

There is a consensus within the Merger and Acquisition (M&A) literature that acquisitions fail during the integration phase, in large part due to neglect of social factors such as differences in rules, norms, and values across organizations. Thus, a crucial part of successful integration is...

In this paper, we seek to examine the foreign location choices of the international joint ventures (IJVs) engaged by American Companies. In particular we look at the international joint ventures established by the top 100 US MNCs in two points in time, 1986 and 2000. More specifically, we ask...

During the 1920s and 1930s, most Latin American countries drafted nationalist legislations for the oil sector seeking to control the power of foreign multinational corporations. While most initiatives sought to limit the foreign companies' control on oil production, countries which were not...