We currently know little of the role of the corporate human resource (HR) function in multinational corporations regarding global talent management (GTM). GTM is explored here from two perspectives: increasing global competition for talent, and new forms of international mobility. The first considers the mechanisms of GTM, and the second, individual willingness to be mobile, especially in emerg...

An increasing proportion of corporate information takes the form of unstructured or semi-structured text. Annual reports are one of the most important external documents that discuss corporate performance and managerial priorities. This paper is aimed at visualizing textual information in corporate annual reports. Several word categorization schemes are used to extract the tone of text. Self-or...

This paper studies the relationship among corporate governance, risk taking and financial performance at bank holding companies’ (BHCs) during the financial crisis of 2008. While the paper did not find a significant relationship between corporate governance and risk-taking level, it shows that BHCs with lower risk performed better than BHCs with higher risk during the crisis. The results sugges...

In recent years, the area of corporate sustainability and green supply chain management has been gaining popularity. Corporate Sustainability refers to ensuring that it contributes to a better quality of life today without compromising the quality of life of future generations. Green Supply Chain Management is commonly understood as the integration of environmental thinking into supply chain ma...

Preparation and negotiation of innovative and future projects can be characterized as a strategic-type decision situation, involving many uncertainties and an unpredictable environment. We will focus in this paper on the bidding process. It includes cooperative and strategic decisions. Our approach for bidding process knowledge capitalization is aimed at information management in project-orient...

While stakeholder models of corporate governance support long-term employment, recent reforms have promoted shareholder-oriented corporate governance worldwide. Will reform cause employment to converge on a market system? This paper presents a comparison of the linkages between corporate governance and employment patterns in 22 countries using the QCA method (Qualitative Comparative Analysis). ...

Agency Theory as the dominant view of Corporate Governance disregards that the key task of firm governance is to generate, accumulate, transfer, and protect firm specific knowledge. Three different foundations to the theory of the firm which underpin different concepts of corporate governance are discussed: The traditional view of the firm as a nexus of contracts, the view of the firm as a nexu...

In the past two decades many changes have occurred in the banks serving the corporate market. This paper seeks to describe how the universal corporate bank as part of the international bank has developed and to assess the future prospects for this form of banking. Financial market changes in the 1980s boosted direct market transacting and threatened conventional commercial banking. In sections ...

Taking advantage of a unique corporate bond transaction dataset from the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), this paper investigates whether information-based trading takes place in the high-yield corporate bond market, and how firm-specific information flow across related securities, including stocks, options and corporate bonds. Differing from previous studies, I find that curr...