Based on a sample of 61 international firms in China with industry symbiosis, we examine the effects of cultural alignment on firm performance. We first predict that symbiosis will have a negative effect on firm performance. After that, focusing on the most dimension of culture, i.e.,...

Inconclusive findings about the effect of national cultural differences on post-acquisition performance may be created by the failure to distinguish among the different cultural dimensions and the asymmetry of cultural differences. To demonstrate a different approach, this study focuses on one...

Contents: 1 Introduction: The Asian entrepreneurial family enterprise / Hung-bin Ding and Phillip Phan -- 2 When and how high family involvement helps a family business: The role of long-term orientation and innovativeness / Dina L. Taylor, Soroush Aslani and Dexi Zheng -- 3 Making sense of...

Recently, the interests in the performance of family firms in the capital market are on the rise. However studies on long-term performance give us little information about the performance of family firms in the initial public offering (IPO) markets. Building on agency theory, we investigated the...

One striking finding from recent natural environmental management research is that family firms are more likely to engage in environmentally friendly practices than non-family firms. However, the source of such difference is not clear. The primary objective of our research is to investigate if...