This paper investigates the effect of group-affiliation on the Indian corporate firms capital structure based on data of 875 Indian non-financial firms listed either in the Bombay Stock Exchange or in the National Stock Exchange, for the period 2002-2010. Among the three alternative estimation methodologies applied viz., (i) pooled OLS, (ii) generalized method of moments (GMM)and (iii) ‘lagged’...

The present research highlights affiliation defenses in the psychological confrontation with death. In 3 experiments, it was found that mortality salience led to increased affiliation strivings, as indicated by a greater preference for sitting within a group as opposed to sitting alone. Mortality salience actually led to increased affiliation with a worldview-threatening group (Experiments 1-2)...

In my dissertation, I examine how the corporate governance structure may affect the firm value in the market for control and affect strategic behavior of the firm. Particularly, I focus on founding family business firms which have been largely understudied in the management literature. In my first essay, I empirically examine how founder management affects takeover premiums in mergers and acqui...

Objective: This study seeks to examine how multilatinas affiliated with a business group influence the degree of ownership acquired in their cross-border acquisitions region. Method: We considered sample 342 conducted by 58 from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico during period that extends 2008 2018. To test our hypotheses, we selected Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE), variant...