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The Economics of Corporate Tax Selfishness
(2004)
This paper offers an economics perspective on corporate tax noncompliance. It first reviews what is known about the extent and nature of corporate tax noncompliance and the resources devoted to enforcement. It then addresses ...
Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development:Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?*
(2006-04-06)
Development implies that the efficiency of local firms converges to that of firms in advanced economies. We examine this using 1992-2000 panel data on virtually all industrial firms in the Czech Republic and Russia. We ...
Berle and Means revisited: The governance and power of large U.S. corporations
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-10)
In The Modern Corporation and Private Property (1932), Berle and Means warned of the concentration of economic power brought on by the rise of the large corporation and the emergence of a powerful class of professional ...
Setting people up for success: How the Portman Ritz-Carlton hotel gets the best from its people
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006)
In China, where many multinational companies face a constant shortage of talent and high employee turnover, the Portman Ritz-Carlton Hotel has been able to attract, develop, and retain high-quality talent to deliver excellent ...
Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
(2004-09-01)
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both ...
The Changing International Status of Export Cartel Exemptions
(2004)
In an attempt to create more consistently pro-competitive antitrust policies, many countries have eliminated or restricted antitrust exemptions for firms engaged in export activity. Of the fifty-six countries surveyed, we ...
The Predictive Value of Expenses Excluded from Pro Forma Earnings
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-06)
We investigate the informational properties of pro forma earnings. This increasingly popular measure of earnings excludes certain expenses that the company deems non-recurring, non-cash, or otherwise unimportant for ...
Cultural Impressions of Professionalism
(2006-09)
Two studies with working managers and corporate recruiters examined evidence that impressions of professionalism are influenced by cues of whether one appropriately minimizes personal referents at work, particularly within ...