Using a sample of 1470 cross-border mergers and acquisitions from 1997 through 2011, it finds two distinctive features of the financial market in China. First, better investor protection mechanisms at target countries, such as better law and order conditions, lower public sector corruption and...

Technological advancements are forcing firms to innovate quickly to sustain a competitive advantage. However, despite theoretical arguments and empirical findings, the mechanisms that influence the speed of innovation and firms' international performance are surprisingly unexplored in the...

This study focuses on ex ante performance of domestic and foreign takeover targets in Germany, one of the most important FDI inflow destinations worldwide. Using a new database from German official statistics, unconditional comparisons as well as binary response model estimations of takeover...

This study provides the first comparative evidence of foreign and domestic acquisitions in Germany. A propensity score matching approach combined with a difference-in-difference estimator were performed separately for foreign and domestic acquisitions to account for a general takeover effect....

This paper examines capital structure decisions as a strategic device to mitigate overinvestment problems. The analysis is based on a two-tiered approach, including agency problems between shareholders and the CEO (firm-level), and between the CEO and international executives (intra-firm level)....

For the management focused on growth of value of the company is important not only ability to apply the standard methods to an assessment of the companies, but also that is more important, to possess tools of diagnostics of fair value of the company. It will allow to carry out the analysis of...

This study investigates the relationship between family ownership, agency costs, financial performance, and companies' business strategies. The targeted population of this study were all 143 manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) during 2007-2014. About 31% (45) of...

Using data on 157 large companies in Poland and Hungary this paper employs a Bayesian structural equation modeling to examine interrelationships between corporate governance, managers' independence from owners in terms of strategic decision-making, exporting and performance. It is found that...

This paper is aimed to analyze the rise of New Mexican emerging multinational enterprises (MexEMNEs) into the global market. There is a growing interest in the study of these emerging multinationals among scholars. Several theoretical perspectives are reviewed which can give an explanation of...

This paper analyzes the effects of the formation of a regional trade agreement on the level and nature of multinational firm activity. We examine aggregate data that captures the response of U.S. multinational firms to the formation of the ASEAN free trade agreement. Observed patterns guide the...