...-insensitive institutional investors have a significant positive relation with stock return volatility, while pressure-sensitive institutional investors do not. The study also reflects that pressure-sensitive institutional investors are underweighted in India, which jointly represents an insignificant...

... product in India. Findings The study argues that wag the dog initiatives provoke the corporate immune system independent of the initiative’s potential and the subsidiary’s autonomy and legitimacy. If the idea behind the wag the dog initiative is perceived as strategically important...

... competitiveness of its firms and, ultimately, the competitiveness of its MNEs. Many emerging countries have a constrained set of location-specific (L) assets from which their firms are able to develop ownership-specific assets. Design/methodology/approach The authors examine data for the case of India...

... of erosion of competitive advantage in this key industry is being felt at the broader country level also, especially as the software industry has played a prominent role in the quest for economic development as well as technological progression of countries such as Brazil, China, Israel and India (Feiman...

...Vishnu Kirpalani In Chapter 1, Professor Ramamurthy offers a critical analysis, examples and recommendations concerning how to increase the number of researchers in India. He states that the quality of India’s Science & Technology (S&T) Industry is comparable to that of China’s...

...Johny K. Johansson; Laurence Leigh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical assessment of the degree to which global firms have penetrated markets in emerging countries in the new millennium. The focus is on the “big four” emerging countries of Brazil, Russia, India, and China...

... the commitment and focus of the workforce during the acquisition process through employee involvement. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Human resource management Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) Cross‐border India VOLUME 17 NUMBER 2 The Role of HR in Cross-Border Mergers...

... effect on U.S. consumers’ brand perception of automobiles from China and India. Our multivariate analysis of variance shows differences in terms of brand excitement, brand competence, brand sophistication, and brand ruggedness. Our results indicate that the Chinese car is perceived to be more daring, up...