NEOMA Business School

Does cross-border regulatory cooperation reduce excessive risk-taking?

This study investigates how heightened regulatory scrutiny by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), caused by the passage of the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MMoU), affects excessive risk-taking by U.S. listed foreign firms. Using data from 37 countries...

Speed of external technology transfer and SME resilience during crisis

Purpose Research on how quickly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) source and integrate new technology during crises is scant, despite an assumption that speed is important for an SME's ability to cope. Rapid technology transfer may be subject to time compression diseconom...

Consumer responses to industrially processed food in hospitality: Is an authenticity crisis looming?

Hospitality establishments increasingly use industrially processed foods that customers assume are prepared from scratch. Although an open secret in the industry, consumer responses to this practice remain unexplored. Drawing on psychological contract theory, we examine whether i...

Imitation of regional location choices for foreign investments: The role of home-country collectivism

Firms investing in a foreign country tend to imitate their compatriots’ most common regional location choices. We argue that this tendency is stronger among firms from more collectivistic cultures, since such firms are more inclined to view prior compatriot investors in the targe...