This paper reviews recent research on corporate governance, with a special focus on
emerging markets. It finds that better corporate governance benefit firms through greater …

We review the evidence on social incentives, namely on how social interactions with
colleagues, subordinates, bosses, customers, and others shape agents' effort choices in …

Standard economic theories of saving implicitly assume that households have the cognitive
ability to solve the relevant optimization problem and the willpower to execute the optimal …

abstract Firm ownership is an increasingly influential form of corporate governance.
Although firms might be owned by different types of owners, most studies examine owner …

In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM)
and productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non …

Purpose–This paper aims to examine the impact of enterprise education on entrepreneurial
attitude within European higher education institutions (HEIs) in France, Germany and …

We survey the empirical literature analyzing the process of enterprise restructuring in
transition economies. The survey provides new insights into the relative effectiveness of …

The literature shows that good corporate governance generally pays—for firms, for markets,
and for countries. It is associated with a lower cost of capital, higher returns on equity …

The resource‐based view of the firm emphasizes the role of firm‐specific resources,
especially firm‐specific knowledge resources, in helping a firm to achieve sustainable …

In his best-selling Irrational Exuberance, Robert Shiller cautioned that society's obsession
with the stock market was fueling the volatility that has since made a roller coaster of the …