Family firms are widespread among public companies in France. In a recent paper, Ben Ali, Boubaker & Magnan, provide evidence that the presence of multiple large shareholders (MLS) beyond the largest controlling shareholder (LCS) mitigates the agency conflicts between large and minority shareholders, hence reducing the level of audit fees paid by family-controlled firms. Using […]

The purpose of this study is to understand how suppliers respond to institutional pressure in an uncertain environment and what impact do these responses have on their financial performance as well as on cleaner production. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 Tier 1 suppliers to automotive companies (OEM) in India, which is widely cited for […]

Within the context of the internationalization of organizations and, in particular, growing numbers of staff members from different cultures, the number of studies on the management of cultural differences has increased considerably. However, as several authors have observed, studies on cultural differences and the concept of cultural identity remain limited, in large part due to […]