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Industry agglomeration, sub-national institutions and the profitability of foreign subsidiaries (2018)
Journal Article
Li, X., Zhang, Y.-F., & Sun, L. (2018). Industry agglomeration, sub-national institutions and the profitability of foreign subsidiaries. Management International Review, 58(6), 969-993. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-018-0361-3

This study investigates the impact of agglomeration and its interaction with subnational institutions on the profitability of multinational enterprises (MNEs) subsidiaries operating in an emerging economy. We argue that in an emerging economy like Ch... Read More about Industry agglomeration, sub-national institutions and the profitability of foreign subsidiaries.

Do Immigration and Social Media Facilitate or Inhibit Cognitive Acculturation? The Role of Individual Dialecticism in Dual-Focused Cultural Stimuli Evaluation (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, W., & Abosag, I. (2019). Do Immigration and Social Media Facilitate or Inhibit Cognitive Acculturation? The Role of Individual Dialecticism in Dual-Focused Cultural Stimuli Evaluation. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 145, 523-531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.061

Social media and immigration influence individuals' acculturation experiences. Studies that compare the influences of immigration-based versus social media-based acculturation on cognition are limited. By focusing on acculturalization in Chinese indi... Read More about Do Immigration and Social Media Facilitate or Inhibit Cognitive Acculturation? The Role of Individual Dialecticism in Dual-Focused Cultural Stimuli Evaluation.

The Role of Complex Analysis in Modeling Economic Growth (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper
Sbardella, A., Pugliese, E., Zaccaria, A., & Scaramozzino, P. The Role of Complex Analysis in Modeling Economic Growth. Ithaca, NY

Development and growth are complex and tumultuous processes. Modern economic growth theories identify some key determinants of economic growth. However, the relative importance of the determinants remains unknown, and additional variables may help cl... Read More about The Role of Complex Analysis in Modeling Economic Growth.

Updating ""Small World Representations"" in strategic decision-making under extreme uncertainty (2018)
Journal Article
Feduzi, A., Runde, J., Cabantous, L., Faulkner, P., & Loch, C. (2018). Updating ""Small World Representations"" in strategic decision-making under extreme uncertainty. Proceedings - Academy of Management, 2018(1), https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.141

The behavioral strategy literature investigates how decision makers might use Small World Representations (SWRs) to guide their actions in situations of extreme uncertainty, but says little about how such representations should be updated during the... Read More about Updating ""Small World Representations"" in strategic decision-making under extreme uncertainty.

All in the Value: The Impact of Brand and Social Network Relationships on the Perceived Value of Customer Endorsed Facebook Advertising (2018)
Journal Article
Ramadan, Z., Abosag, I., & Žabkar, V. (2018). All in the Value: The Impact of Brand and Social Network Relationships on the Perceived Value of Customer Endorsed Facebook Advertising. European Journal of Marketing, 52(7/8), 1704-1726. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-03-2017-0189

Purpose: Social advertising featuring endorsed brands has significantly grown in the past few years. Companies and social networking sites (SNSs) are hailing such types of advertising as being more credible to users as they feature their friends’ ind... Read More about All in the Value: The Impact of Brand and Social Network Relationships on the Perceived Value of Customer Endorsed Facebook Advertising.

Corporate Governance in Contention (2018)
Book
Driver, C., & Thompson, G. (Eds.). (2018). Corporate Governance in Contention. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805274.001.0001

Corporate governance is a complex idea that is often inappropriately simplified as a cookbook of recommended measures to improve financial performance. Meta studies of published research show that the supposed benign effects of these measures - indep... Read More about Corporate Governance in Contention.

Fixing the Corporation: a Management or a Governance issue? (2018)
Book Chapter
Driver, C. (2018). Fixing the Corporation: a Management or a Governance issue?. In C. Driver, & G. Thompson (Eds.), Corporate Governance in Contention (239-260). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805274.003.0011

In this chapter I first review the current state of play in corporate governance debates, highlighting challenges to the dominant agency view. Following a critique of the economic reasoning supporting shareholder primacy I consider two contrasting ap... Read More about Fixing the Corporation: a Management or a Governance issue?.

Climate Change and the Cost of Capital in Developing Countries (2018)
Report
Buhr, B., Volz, U., Donovan, C., Kling, G., Lo, Y. C., Murinde, V., & Pullin, N. (2018). Climate Change and the Cost of Capital in Developing Countries

This report represents the first systematic effort to assess the relationship between climate vulnerability, sovereign credit profiles, and the cost of capital in developing countries. Climate risks are multi-dimensional, covering a range of geophysi... Read More about Climate Change and the Cost of Capital in Developing Countries.

Corporate Governance and Why it Matters (2018)
Book Chapter
Driver, C., & Thompson, G. (2018). Corporate Governance and Why it Matters. In C. Driver, & G. Thompson (Eds.), Corporate Governance in Contention (1-24). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805274.003.0001

This chapter introduces the idea of governance and proceeds to a structured discussion of what corporate governance means and why it matters. The discussion is divided into three themes: the first deals with enterprise—long-run commitments that firms... Read More about Corporate Governance and Why it Matters.