Previous studies have shown that regulated firms diversify for reasons that are different than for unregulated firms. We explore some of these differences by providing a theoretical model that starts by considering the firm-regulator relationship as an incomplete information issue, in which a...

The enactment of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) in 2000 marked the beginning of the ongoing systematic attempt by the United States of America to combat human trafficking transnationally. Through this Act, the United States employs a regime of positive and negative incentives,...

This paper investigates the industrial practices of production offshoring and reshoring — in particular, the role of strategy and natural hedging (i.e., co-locating sales and production activities). After analyzing the recent production sourcing decisions of 74 leading global manufacturing...