James P. Lantolf is George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics and former director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics in the same academic unit at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is founder of the Sociocultural Theory...

A common view in the literature is that the director labor market provides an ex post settling-up for past decisions by rewarding CEO ability and actions that are consistent with shareholder interests. In this paper we focus on large CEO acquisition decisions to investigate whether the director labor market offers ex post settling-up for value destroying decisions. Prior studies have found that...

The purpose of this research is to examine the influence CEO Characteristics and family board member on a firms internationalization listed Indonesia Stock Exchange. This using multiple linear regression model, data acquired from report finance company published period 2011-2016. Dependent variables used proxied with foreign sales total sales. Independent in are education level CEO, Gender comm...

We show that board interlocked firms' accounting practices as reflected in earnings quality are significantly correlated, and more so for audit committee interlocks. We also show that these associations arise after interlock formation and cease after interlock dissolution, consistent with the notion that information about accounting practices transfers between interlocked firms. It has been sai...

The purpose of this research is to examine the influence CEO Characteristics and family board members on a firms internationalization listed Indonesia Stock Exchange. This using multiple linear regression model, data acquired from report finance company published period 2011-2016. Dependent variables used proxied with foreign sales total sales. Independent in are education level CEO, Gender mem...

The study aims to investigate the impact of corporate governance on financial distress listed companies in Sri Lanka. Board size, board composition, CEO duality, meeting, director ownership, and audit committee size are proxies for while is measured by Altman Z-score. Z-score measures inversely bigger indicates smaller risk distress. Using hundred eight individual observations firms Lanka perio...

Board interlocks are frequently examined as conduits of practices between firms. I propose that variance among the individual directors who create these linkages affects the likelihood information is transmitted across them. Further, I discuss organizational characteristics that shape how receptive a board is to the diffusion of practices. I conceptualize a model to investigate, first, which di...