Management International Review

The Effects of Institutional Ownership On Corporate Governance and Performance: An Empirical Assessment in Hong Kong

Using 433 publicly listed companies in Hong Kong, this study analyses how the institutional ownership of firms affects their corporate governance and performance. The results indicate that institutional ownership exerts a direct and significant influence on corporate governance in such areas as board composition, CEO duality, leadership diversity, and ownership concentration. The results also show that institutional ownership has only an indirect effect on firm performance, such as corporate ...

The Dynamics of Guanxi in Chinese High-Tech Firms: Implications for Knowledge Management and Decision Making

This paper employs multiple theoretical perspectives -- resource- and knowledge-based views as well as social network theory -- to explore the dynamics of guanxi in the context of Chinese entrepreneurial firms. The researchers propose a dynamic model and offer multiple propositions for researchers to examine the role of guanxi for knowledge management and decision-making at various developmental stages of such firms. By integrating the individual level phenomenon of guanxi with firm-level iss...

Direct Competition, Number of Partners and the Longevity of Stakes in Joint Ventures

In this paper, the researchers draw attention to the interaction between the number of partners and the direct competition between these when explaining the longevity of stakes in joint ventures (JVs). The researchers argue that increases in the number of partners have a positive effect on the longevity of stakes in JVs only when all of these are competitors, especially if the JV includes marketing activities. In contrast, if not all of the partners are competitors, the effect of the number o...

The Acquisition of Tacit Knowledge in China: An Empirical Analysis of the 'Supplier-Side Individual Level' and 'Recipient-Side' Factors

This study examines the impact of "supplier-side individual level" factors pertaining to foreign expatriates, eg, individual embeddedness and motivation, as well as a number of recipient-side variables, on tacit knowledge acquisition by Chinese firms through joint ventures. Results indicate that individual embeddedness of foreign expatriates, and recipient-side variables such as recipient's collaborativeness, its readiness, and the comprehensiveness of its acquisition methods play critical ro...

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Autonomy of Foreign R&Amp;D Units in an Emerging Market: An Information Processing Perspective

This study uses an information processing view to assess how autonomy of foreign R&D units in a major emerging market is influenced by the organizational and environmental conditions they face. The researchers argue that specification of the autonomy is an optimal decision requiring a balance between the costs of information processing capacity and the needs of information processing for performing R&D tasks. The analysis suggests that autonomy of foreign R&D units increases when ...