We seek to bring to the core of the study of comparative corporate governance analysis the idea that within countries and industries, there exist multiple configurations of firm level characteristics and governance practices leading to effective corproate governance. In particular, we propose...

To analyze the effectiveness of HRM strategies as a mechanism for achieving synergies, we incorporate the post-acquisition resource flows and the need for structural integration into Aguilera and Dencker’s (2004) framework that considers both national institutional environments and the...

Institutional theorists have recently begun to examine the role of agency in influencing institutionalization of practices. We extend this work by qualitatively investigating how institutional actors' use of a particular language can facilitate institutionalization. We find that a particular set...

Organizations, across the globe, are implementing ethics programs but with mixed results. This issue becomes more complex for multinational enterprises operating in several different economies simultaneously. In this chapter, we extensively review the literature on ethics programs in the US and...

This paper describes corporate governance systems in five Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Venezuela. We account for the broader institutional environment by explaining changes over time as well as existing corporate governance systems. We use a stakeholder...

Over the past twenty years, research on social embeddedness and socially embedded exchange has grown to occupy a prominent place in organizational theory research. But while a large volume of research makes reference to the construct of social embeddedness, few papers have attempted to assess...