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Allocating Risk Across Pyramidal Tiers: Evidence from Thai Business Groups [PDF]
This paper shows that pyramidal ownership can be used to control downside risk. The research setting is Thailand before and after the 1997 Asian crisis. The focus is on family business groups that owned banks. The results show that the controlling family
Bunkanwanicha, Pramuan +1 more
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Financial/Social Trade‐Offs in Dual‐Purpose Companies
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Dual‐purpose companies (DPCs) encounter numerous financial and social trade‐offs in their operations. However, existing research has not fully explored the heterogeneity and antecedents of these trade‐offs. To bridge this gap, we first distinguish between scenarios in which trade‐offs are mitigated or intensified, and then categorize the ...
Fengbin Wang +3 more
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Serving low-income markets: Rethinking Multinational Corporations’ Strategies [PDF]
In recent years a new debate is emerging about market-based approaches to serve lowincome communities, opportunities in such markets and the role of multinational corporations.
Duysters, Geert, SadreGhazi, Shuan
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In various regulatory settings, firms receive feedback (i.e., firm‐specific private advice) from authorities on how to improve compliance. Although the literature sheds light on the authorities' decision of when to provide feedback, less is known about firms' decisions on how to respond.
Sanne R. van Duin +3 more
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Field Actions Science Reports, 2012 Private sector provision of basic services (water, energy, financial services and housing) for people in developing countries is a necessity if we really want to try to curb poverty.
Luc Rigouzzo
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Poverty Reduction for Profit? A Critical Examination of Business Opportunities at the Bottom of the Pyramid [PDF]
Leading management thinker C.K. Prahalad argues that selling consumer goods to four billion poor people at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BoP) both generates sizeable profits for large businesses and eliminates poverty.
Jean-Louis Warnholz (QEH)
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that if the aspiration is to enhance regulatory and governance responses to white‐collar and corporate crimes, consideration of the organization of these offending behaviors must be central to the scholarly, practice, and policy discussion.
Nicholas Lord, Michael Levi
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The transition times of the banking system in South-eastern Europe [PDF]
, 2013 The paper analyses the commercial banking sector's development in southeastern Europe during the transition period. The transition of the banking sector evolved - or is still evolving - parallel with the general economic transition.
Kazinczy, Eszter
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Powers and Practices in Labor Standards Enforcement
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Wage theft remains a pervasive problem internationally and within the United States. In response, worker advocates have sought stronger laws to deter violations and promote compliance. Yet formal authority alone may be insufficient; labor departments often fail to use the full extent of their legal authority to conduct vigorous enforcement ...
Daniel J. Galvin +4 more
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Experiential Marketing of Clean Drinking Water: Experimental Evidence for Kenya and Rwanda
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To date, limited work investigates how consumers in emerging markets make consumption decisions. With the rise in demand for clean drinking water in sub‐Sahara Africa, a field experiment was conducted on non‐consumers of two socially oriented drinking water companies providing low‐cost, re‐usable bottled drinking water in Kenya and Rwanda. The
Rachel Howell +2 more
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