Management Research: Volume 4 Issue 2

Corporate Strategies of Busines Groups in the Wake of Competitive Shocks: Lessons from Argentina

Eduardo Fracchia, Luiz F. Mesquita

Conventional economic and management theories explain that business groups facing market liberalization policy reforms (i.e., competitive shocks) would have incentives to reduce…

Corporate Governance and the Mondragón Cooperatives

Jordi Surroca, Miguel A. García‐Cestona, Lluís Santamaria

This paper builds upon recent advances in the corporate governance framework to extend and complement the economic literature on producer cooperatives. We argue that the problem…

Determinants of the Innovation Process: An Empirical Test for the Portuguese Manufacturing Industry

Carla Susana Marques, José Monteiro‐Barata

The aim of this paper is to analyze the determinants of the main phases of the innovation process in Portuguese manufacturing firms. The analysis will adopt as its main frame of…

Consequences of Integration Heterogeneity in Mergers and Acquisitions

María Iborra, Consuelo Dolz

In this paper, we analyze the heterogeneity of acquisition integration processes. Starting with the integration types laid down by Haspeslagh and Jemison (1991), we describe…