Capital Structure of Public–Private Partnership Projects: A Sustainability Perspective

Limited Partnership Perspective

A Multinational Perspective on Capital Structure Choice and Internal Capital Markets

This paper examines the impact of local tax rates and capital market conditions on the level and composition of borrowing by foreign affiliates of American multinational corporations. The evidence indicates that 10 percent higher local tax rates are associated with 2.8 percent higher debt/asset ratios of American-owned affiliates, and that borrowing from related parties is particularly sensitiv...

Enacting Clan Control in Complex IT Projects: A Social Capital Perspective

The IT project control literature has documented that clan control is often essential in complex multi-stakeholder projects for project success. However, instituting clan control in such conditions is challenging as people come to a project with diverse skills and backgrounds. There is often insufficient time for clan control to develop naturally. This paper investigates the question, “How can ...

Firm-Sponsored Developers in Open Source Software Projects: a Social Capital Perspective

The way in which companies benefit from open source software (OSS) communities varies and corresponds with the business strategy they maintain. One way of establishing influence in OSS communities is by deploying own resources to an OSS project. Assigning own paid developers to work for an OSS project is a suitable means to influence project work. On the other hand, the pertinent literature on ...

Who has a Stake? How stakeholder processes influence partnership sustainability

Universities throughout the world are expanding their relevance by responding to and engaging with local and regional societal challenges in multiple ways, including developing various kinds of community partnerships (Baum 2000; Bringle & Hatcher 2002; Butterfield & Soska 2005; Forrant et al. 2001; Stephens et al. 2008). Universities have a particularly interesting potential to facilitate socie...