International Journal of Emerging Markets: Volume 19 Issue 8

Audit quality and corporate trade credit: evidence from the Asian emerging markets

Asif Saeed, Zahid Munir, Muhammad Wasif Zafar

The purpose of this study is to examine whether companies with high audit quality (AQ) are expected to use trade credit (TC) as a financing source. Traditionally, vendors are most…

Asymmetric effects of policy uncertainty on real sector variables in emerging markets: evidence from Brazil, India, China and South Africa

Jonathan E. Ogbuabor, Victor A. Malaolu, Anthony Orji

This study investigated the asymmetric effects of changes in policy uncertainty on real sector variables in Brazil, China, India and South Africa.

Competitive or collaborative? Customer concentration and real earnings management

Lei Zhu, Wanyi Chen, Qianwen Zheng

Emerging markets are characterized by weak institutions and strong relationships, which give rise to different market characteristics in supply chain relationships. This study…

Investor attention and the COVID-19 concept stocks in China's stock market

Zhe Liu, Chong Huang, Benshuo Yang

This paper investigates the impact of investor attention on the COVID-19 concept stocks in China's stock market from the perspectives of the macroeconomy, the stock market and the…

Performance evaluation models applied to the Brazilian mutual funds market

Diogo Corso Kruk, Rene Coppe Pimentel

This paper analyzes alternative performance evaluation models applied to equity mutual funds under conditional and unconditional approaches in the Brazilian market.

Tax rate motivated profit shifting and base erosion by multinational corporations: Indian evidence

Suveera Gill, Taruntej Singh Arora, Karan Gandhi

Profit shifting is a matter of great concern for governments internationally. It leads to the loss of tax revenues and puts multinational corporations (MNCs) in a disparate…

M&A performance in emerging markets: do they behave in unison or otherwise?

Sakshi Kukreja, Girish C. Maheshwari, Archana Singh

The study aims to evaluate and compare the mergers and acquisitions (M&As) performance utilising a sample of deals originating from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa…

Does CEO openness matter when explaining firm internationalization decisions: evidence from China

Weihong Chen, Xi Zhong, Hailin Lan

The impact of executive characteristics on firm internationalization has already been extensively explored. However, relatively few studies have examined the critical role of…

Discretionary impacts of the risk management committee attributes on firm performance: do board size matter?

Sitara Karim, Samuel A. Vigne, Brian M. Lucey, Muhammad Abubakr Naeem

While there is an increased demand from various corporate stakeholders on the need for public companies to have risk management frameworks as well as a stand-alone risk management…

Chinese cross-border acquisitions: stylised facts and new directions

Shuang Hu, Saileshsingh Gunessee, Chang Liu

Chinese multinational enterprises’ (MNEs) unprecedented, aggressive cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBMAs) have led to several studies examining Chinese CBMAs, which…

Investigating the influence of perceived organizational justice on counterproductive work behaviours: mediating role of negative emotions

Rabail Aisha, Nisar Ahmed Channa, Manzoor Ali Mirani, Naveed Akhtar Qureshi

Using the theoretical lens of appraisal theory, this research aims to investigate the interrelationship between employees' organizational justice perceptions and counterproductive…

Learning through exploitative and exploratory overseas R&D: impacts on EMNEs' innovation performance

Xi Zhong, Weihong Chen

This study aims to examine whether exploitative and exploratory overseas R&D have independent and significant effects on emerging economy multinational enterprises' (EMNEs’…