Abstract This paper explores effect of business group affiliation on entrepreneurial orientation the affiliated firms. Building argument that organizational and governance structure influence entrepreneurship, we argue despite some potential advantage has a firm through intermediate market filling roles, entrenchment behavior groups discourages Taking firm-specific contingent perspective also p...

Most of the existing empirical literature on franchising investigates the share of company-owned versus franchised establishments within large retail firms. This literature typically has not considered the decision of a business owner to operate an independent business or to become a franchisee. This paper empirically analyzes what determines whether independent ownership or affiliation is obse...

We examine the impact of three business strategies separately and in combination on tendency for firms to engage corruption. Using a sample 56,827 firm-year observations small- medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) over 2006–2018 period, we find that with group affiliations are more likely corrupt practices countries low freedom. However, those high freedom less do so. also services external auditors...

When two people move in synchrony, they become more social. Yet it is not clear how this effect scales up to larger numbers of people. Does a group need to move in unison to affiliate, in what we term unitary synchrony; or does affiliation arise from distributed coordination, patterns of coupled movements between individual members of a group? We developed choreographic tasks that manipulated m...

U novel data on European firms, this paper investigates the relationship between business groups and innovation. Controlling for various firm characteristics, we find that group affiliates are more innovative than standalones. We examine several hypotheses to explain this finding, focusing on group internal capital markets and knowledge spillovers. We find that group affiliation is particularly...

An important aspect of China’s economic reforms has been an ambitious policy to develop a 100 or so large, internationally competitive business groups. Very little is known about these national champion groups or the benefits to subsidiary firms of belonging to them. This study, building from insights and methods used in existing literature, examines the performance of subsidiaries affiliated t...