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The Impact of Business Group Affiliation and Country-Level Institutions on Corporate Governance of Emerging Market Firms
2020
This study outlines how the corporate governance of emerging market firms is influenced by corporate affiliation and institutional embeddedness. We argue that the stronger the business group affiliation, the less likely is the emerging market firm to adopt shareholder value enhancing corporate governance, and that this relationship is moderated by institutional quality and tribalism. Based on189 initial public offerings (IPOs) from 22 African countries between 2000and 2016, we find a significant negative relationship between business group ownership and IPO firms’ quality of corporate governance. We also find this relationship to be significantly negatively moderated by country-level instit…
Afghanistan and the language of equality : a social contract in the making on a world-system fault
2013
The international intervention in Afghanistan started more than ten years ago. It built on new institutions according to the democratic model, complete with concepts generalized in the Western world since the 18th century, and among them the principle of equality. This model had founded the Amirs’ wished socio-political changes all along the 20th century, but ended in an on-going 30-year chaos with ever-renewed adversaries since the 1970’s. As operated in Afghanistan, tribalism and modernity – meant as an ideology, result in opposition prevaling as a social behaviour, which produces fragmentation or destruction and deals with equality demands through group honor. Consequently, traditionalis…
Tribalismo entre los aficionados al fútbol: antecedentes y consecuentes
2019
La época postmodernista ha conllevado importantes cambios en la sociedad, entre ellos, un aumento muy significativo del individualismo, que ha derivado en la fragmentación de la sociedad. Sin embargo, el ser humano -por su naturaleza- tiene la necesidad de socializar con otras personas y pertenecer a distintas comunidades o colectivos. Por ello, en la búsqueda de la reconstrucción de su universo social, el individuo ha utilizado el consumo para poder establecer relaciones sociales con otras personas. Las tribus de consumo son un claro ejemplo de esta realidad, ya que en este tipo de comunidad los sujetos establecen relaciones sociales entre sí, gracias al consumo de un producto o marca que …