A comparative study of Corporate Governance structures at two organizations situated across the Atlantic Ocean has been conducted to understand the rationale for the observed differences from an international versus a nationally focused business perspective. A research based recommendation for...

Today's management faces the challenge of employing workforces in different countries. Institutional frameworks, both formal and informal, in various countries influence employees' preferences related to performance rewards and management styles. We conduct an empirical study to examine...

This study examines globalization of monitoring practices by focusing on how American (U.S.) influences on European firms impact the dismissal risk for these firms' CEOs. Specifically, we argue that the stronger short term orientation of the American corporate governance system increase the...

We compare how far companies based in Africa, India and the "global North" operating in Mauritius adopt high-trust flexible working practices and how these are linked to different clusters of wider labour management practice. Using comprehensive firmlevel data collected in late 2011, we find...

This study examines the relationship between diversity management and the performance of Nigerian multinational companies. A single cross-sectional design was adopted for the study and a well-structured questionnaire was administered to 318 randomly chosen senior managers from Mobil Oil,...

Nowadays we are witnessing multinational corporations (“Multinationals”) growing to be more powerful than certain countries. Joel Bakan perceives this “dramatic rise to dominance [as] one of the remarkable events of modern history” (emphasis added). But is this ‘rise' in fact ‘fall'...

In prior work, I suggested the way in which private enterprises have been developing coherent systems of governance that draw on but are autonomous of law and state based legal systems. In this essay I suggest the challenges to the erection of a similar coherent system of legal regulation by or...

In recent years, a number of international and cross-sectoral initiatives have attempted to respond to the human rights impacts of corporations. Foremost among these is the United Nations’ 2008 “Protect, Respect, and Remedy” Framework and its Guiding Principles on Business and Human...

The movement of personal data across national borders is fundamental to the Internet economy. Yet the laws that govern such data flows remain national or, at best, regional. This mismatch weakens privacy protection, increases costs and uncertainty for business, creates tension and political...

This paper details the development of an important part of Japan's legal landscape, hitherto little written about in English: the roles and functions of Japan's corporate legal departments and their staff (in-house counsel). After sketching their evolution first as Japanese corporations began...