This study examines the impact of the geopolitical risk (GPR) on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities of South Korean business groups. Our empirical results indicate that GPR is positively associated with the ESG activities of South Korean firms, and this relationship is...

Our study investigates the impact of the November 2020 to November 2022 Tigray war on youth groups and their members based on survey data from 281 youth group leaders and 2528 youth group members in five districts in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. The data was collected from August to...

This study examines the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) expenditure on the corporate performance of listed firms in India. It tries to explore the effect of business group affiliation and mandatory CSR norm on the CSR-performance relationship. The study period ranges from 2016 to...

We analyse changes in market structure in India between 2000 and 2020 using a rich dataset at high levels of disaggregation. We examine the extent to which business groups - notably family-owned groups - have maintained dominant market positions in the Indian economy. We focus on two key...

Using arguments from the behavioral theory of the firm, agency theory, and the literature on internal capital markets, this article investigates the relationship between financial slack and firms' profitability in standalone versus business group-affiliated firms. Using a large sample of French...

This study aims to determine the influence of the industry group business on international acquisition diversification with private ownership and strategic asset seeking as moderating variables. Using resource-based and institutional theory, this study hypothesizes that the industry group...

Our study investigates how the devastating 2020-2022 Tigray War has affected the social preferences, reciprocity norms, and trust in a large sample of rural young adults in Tigray, Ethiopia, belonging to rural business groups. We rely on field experimental data with standardized incentivized...

Research Question/Issue: This is a study of the relationship between business group ownership and constituent firms' adoption of Anglo-American shareholder value governance in African firms at the undertaking of an initial public offering (IPO).Research Findings/Insights: We find business group...

This paper examines the impact of business group affiliation on the performance and corporate policies of Korean listed firms over the period 2007–2019. This study proposes a novel approach to observe heterogeneity in the affiliation effects. Overall, we conclude that business group...

Two important opportunities for accelerating the growth of newly established firms are initial public offerings and acquisitions. This study focuses on the acquisition of a firm and its subsequent transformation into a subsidiary by business groups and investigates how such governance...

The idea of corporate philanthropy states that businesses should be willing to engage in socially beneficial endeavors. It has been acknowledged that commercial organizations may create economic value by cooperating with businesses within the same group and pooling resources inside. If the...

Much of the debate about Asia's economic success has focussed on the respective roles of the market and state. It has been argued that industrial policy has helped address market failures and achieve critical coordination of development planning and process. Yet, starkly contrasting market and...

It is now well-established that Business Groups (BGs) - an inimitable multi-firm structure that enables legally distinct firms to take coordinated action, constitutes a dominant organizational form in many economies around the world. The BG phenomenon has attracted sustained scholarly attention...

This Article examines how corporate law treats legal entity boundaries in groups of companies. This is a critical question given that large corporations typically have hundreds of subsidiaries. Investigating the treatment of this question in key jurisdictions over time reveals an overlooked...

Coopetition has gained considerable attention in the management literature. Yet, the best recognized is inter-organizational coopetition. The intra-organizational coopetition is still under-researched and there is a gap in the comprehensive evaluation of the benefits of intra-organizational...

Ziel der Arbeit ist der Beitrag zu einem bislang wenig entwickelten Diskussionsstand und einem zukünftig hoffentlich erhöhten Problembewusstsein über die Rechte und besonderen Verhaltenspflichten von Vorstandsmitgliedern im Anschluss an Unternehmensübernahmen. Die Arbeit wird aus den in...

Purpose Coopetition is ubiquitous in the economy, but managing effectively this type of relationship between firms remains a challenge for many organizations. This paper investigates the coopetition within corporate groups and focus on factors that determine the simultaneous competition and...

This study aims to investigate the outward foreign direct investment (FDI) location choices of leading Turkish business groups (TBGs) regarding internationalization motives, dynamic capabilities (DC), and institutional context. The scope of the study consists of eleven multinational TBGs with...

Using business registry data from China, we show that internal capital markets in business groups can play the role of financial intermediary and propagate corporate shareholders’ credit supply shocks to their subsidiaries. An average of 16.7% local bank credit growth where corporate...

This is a revised plan for the finalization of the "Youth Groups for Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Ethiopian Model" (Researcher project under NORGLOBAL2, funded by the Research Council of Norway). The project started in 2019 and was planned to last for four years. A civil war broke...

This paper examines the role of a related bank in the investment efficiency of business-group firms. We show that a bank is associated with less investment sensitivity to investment opportunities for family group firms, especially in financially dependent industries. There is evidence of...

It has been argued that Asia's remarkable economic achievements of the past 50 years build on institutional arrangements very different from the West, notably the central role of business groups (BGs). As Asian economies move from extensive to intensive growth, we enquire whether the business...