This paper investigates how changes in firm degree of internationalization (DOI) are associated with the configuration of top management teams (TMT) based on a dataset of 41 large European firms in the banking and insurance industry, including detailed career profiles of the 264 executives that were serving on the TMTs of these firms at year-end 2002. Our findings suggest firms tend to match to...

today the term globalization is associated with concepts such as unity of economies and societies, the merging of civilizations, of manufacturing and trading companies with banks, change of customs’ policies, increase of trading relations, development of cultural and diplomatic relations, worries of developing countries. globalization is in the best interests of a country if that country has fu...

For an island-like distribution of matter the gravitational energy-momentum tensor is defined according to Weinberg as a source of metric. If this source is formed by selfinteractions of gravitons, so that nonphysical degrees of freedom are excluded, then this source is a reasonable candidate for the energy-momentum tensor of gravitational field. The disastrous influence of the nonphysical degr...

By providing a nearly instant connection among parties at opposite corners of the world and enabling a variety of commercial exchanges, the Internet emerged as the technology expected to create a truly global market space. Internet firms faced the challenge of capitalizing on this development. In this paper we examine what firm-specific factors are associated with the propensity of pure U.S.-ba...

The debt structure of companies in Developing and Emerging Economies (DEEs) is significantly different from that the developed countries. This study examines effect degree internationalization (DOI) on leverage ratio (LEV) cost capital (COC) DEE setting by using a sample Taiwan listed companies. Our results show DOI has significant positive impact short-term as well negative long-term debt. The...