Our recent study, published in the Journal of Management Studies, explores how CEOs’ pre-career exposure to religion influences corporate tax avoidance. We found that CEOs who attended religious universities are more likely to pay higher taxes, influenced by values of...
Overconfident CEOs in Dire Straits: Do Overconfident CEOs Help or Hinder Organizational Turnaround?
Introduction Globally, most companies will, at some point in their history, face a turnaround situation in which they experience a severe decline in performance. Such decline tends to have a tremendous impact on a company's resources and poses a substantial challenge...
Status Differentials and Unplanned Alliance Dissolutions
Background Status is a salient factor for social entities including individuals and firms. Previous research has indicated that firms tend to ally with partners of similar status. Nonetheless, whether status similarity can ease or hinder alliances has not been...
The Buddhist philosophy of “no-self”: How Chinese Buddhist entrepreneurs get access to external resources for their new ventures?
Entrepreneurial resource acquisition Entrepreneurship, the process by which “opportunities to bring into existence ‘future’ goods and services are discovered, created, and exploited”, has long been recognized as a critical driver of economic efficiency and growth,...