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Borrowing Weber’s dual-interest model and “switchman” hypothesis, this study uses survey data to analyze the internal driving force and diversity in the charitable giving behaviors of private business owners from Wenzhou, China. The study found that (1) the political and religious beliefs of business owners can have a positive influence on donation behaviors; (2) there are significant differenc...

much of the research on family firms is carried out in mature markets, a small but burgeoning literature has examined the role of family businesses in emerging markets characterised by an institutional void. We examine publicly listed family firms in Taiwan to shed light on a key debate: is family control beneficial because it fills the institutional void or is it harmful because it abuses it. ...

The willingness of landowners to allow fee-based recreational use of their land was investigated using data obtained from a mailed questionnaire sent to landowners in the Delta region of Louisiana. Previous studies have identified that landowners often chose not to engage in recreational leasing due to liability concerns. An institutional change that reduces liability risk to landowners may inc...

We examine how the ownership, analyst coverage and stock market valuation of a sample of U.S. firms vary with their environmental performance. Both “green” and “toxic” firms have a larger number of shareholders but a smaller percentage of institutional owners and ownership stakes relative to environmentally neutral firms. Nonetheless, toxic firms have higher institutional ownership than green f...

During its activity, an enterprise passes through different life cycle stages, which differ in terms of management systems, formal structures, control systems, documentation of transactions, and number of procedural hurdles. Therefore, our main research problem focused on the differences in informal and formal institutional measures of business ethics implementation. We used the case study rese...

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. This paper provides insight into how to improve the diffusion of OER through (formal) institutional networks. It does so by examining two cases: (1) MORIL ...

Copyright clearance for the digital library: a practical guide to gaining electronic permissions for journal articles This item was submitted to Loughborough University's Institutional Repository by the/an author. Provides a practical guide to gaining copyright clearance for making electronic copies of journal articles based on experience gained on the eLib project, Project ACORN. Includes tips...