This paper examines the impact of bank diversification on stability, using bank‐level data for
22 Asian countries over the period from 1995 to 2009. We empirically investigate whether …

Diversified business groups, consisting of legally independent firms operating across
diverse industries, are ubiquitous in emerging markets. Groups around the world share …

Corporate governance has received much attention in recent years, partly due to the Asian
financial crisis. We review the literature on corporate governance issues in Asia to develop …

Diversified business (or corporate) groups, consisting of legally independent firms operating
in multiple markets, are ubiquitous in emerging markets and even in some developed …

Abstract “What determines the scope of the firm?” is a fundamental question in strategy
research. We argue that a new generation of diversification research needs to address the …

Using novel transaction-level data on Chinese business groups, this study provides the first
direct evidence of the coinsurance theory of business groups by investigating when different …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of ownership structure and
corporate governance on dividend policy in emerging markets, like India. The study also …

We investigate the effect of politically connected boards (both supervisory boards [SBs] and
boards of directors [BODs]) on cost of debt and equity capital of listed companies in …

This paper uses a configurational perspective to examine high perceived value
differentiation strategies of agribusiness in Latin America. Relying on information collected …

Our model, which analyses multi‐decade annual data from the European Union, suggests
that gender inequality mediates the relationship between institutional quality and economic …