Do Chinese firms benefit from government ownership following cross-border acquisitions?

W Tu, X Zheng, L Li, ZJ Lin - International Business Review, 2021 - Elsevier
Chinese firms' increasing cross-border acquisitions (CBAs) in recent years seem to
challenge the explanatory power of received theories of multinational enterprise (MNE) due …

International corporate governance spillovers: Evidence from cross-border mergers and acquisitions

R Albuquerque, L Brandão-Marques… - The Review of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We test the hypothesis that foreign direct investment promotes corporate governance
spillovers in the host country. Using firm-level data from 64 countries during the period 2005 …

Legitimacy, interest group pressures, and change in emergent institutions: The case of foreign investors and host country governments

WJ Henisz, BA Zelner - Academy of Management Review, 2005 - journals.aom.org
We offer a simple model of policy making, emphasizing socialization and limits on human
cognition to explicate mechanisms of change in emergent (as opposed to established) …

The CEO's Representation of Demands and the Corporation'sResponse to External Pressures: Do Politically Affiliated Firms DonateMore?

M Jia, Z Zhang - Management and Organization Review, 2013 - cambridge.org
This study seeks to explain why firms respond in different ways to similarexternal
administrative pressures, such as government demands for charitablegiving, particularly in a …

Foreign ownership, passive‐learning knowledge spillovers, and corporate social responsibility reporting in China

X Li, C Zhang, W Gao, Y Geng… - … Social Responsibility and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As there are many studies on the predictors of corporate social responsibility (CSR)
reporting, the influences of foreign direct investments (FDIs) knowledge spillovers (KSs) on …

Looking good in the eyes of stakeholders: corporate giving and corporate acquisitions

Y Gao, M Zhang, H Yang - Journal of Business Ethics, 2023 - Springer
In this study we examine how a firm's corporate philanthropic behavior may affect its
subsequent acquisitions. Drawing upon stakeholder theory, we argue that firms may …

Institutional investors' site visits and corporate social responsibility: evidence from China

T Zhou, J Gan - Economic Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
Site visits are regarded as crucial ways of external monitoring and information acquisition for
institutional investors and thus play a role in shaping firm investment decisions. However …

Dual liability and the moderating effect of corporate social responsibility–Evidence from Belt&Road investment of Chinese firms

L Gu, G Yang, R Zuo - Emerging Markets Review, 2022 - Elsevier
Our examination of 796 Chinese firms that invested in the Belt&Road (B&R) region from
2008 to 2015 shows that Chinese firms often encounter liability of foreignness (LOF) and …

Foreign direct investments: The role of corporate social responsibility

M Liu, A Marshall, P McColgan - Journal of Multinational Financial …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper investigates whether superior corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance
leads to greater firm-level foreign direct investment (FDI). We argue that the decisions …

Corporate charitable giving, multinational companies and countries of concern

SJ Brammer, S Pavelin, LA Porter - Journal of Management …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
abstract This paper investigates the degree to which corporate charitable giving is
influenced by a firm's internationalization and/or whether it has operations in one or more …