2008
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2007.12.001
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How international are executive boards of European MNCs? Nationality diversity in 15 European countries

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“…Our results lend support to the notion that highly international firms are more likely to have foreigners in their upper echelons (van Veen and Marsman, 2008;Staples, 2007). At the same time, we find no evidence that foreign executives possess more valuable human capital compared to domestic executives.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 76%
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“…Our results lend support to the notion that highly international firms are more likely to have foreigners in their upper echelons (van Veen and Marsman, 2008;Staples, 2007). At the same time, we find no evidence that foreign executives possess more valuable human capital compared to domestic executives.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 76%
“…Over the last decade, the number of foreigners serving on top management teams has increased significantly in a number of European countries Greve, 2008, van Veen andMarsman, 2008). However, it is unclear whether this trend is a result of conscious firm level efforts to match their managers to firm internationalization strategy or a random outcome of selecting the best person for an executive position (regardless of nationality).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Second, business cultures do still differ significantly across the different regions of the world. Previous research found a link between the topology of networks of interlocking directorates and the variety of capitalism dominant in a country (Van Veen and Marsman 2008). Different preferences of corporate (and political) elites regarding the coordination of markets may lead to different regional patterns in board interlocks.…”
Section: A Multi-level Structure In the Transnational Corporate Elitementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Finally, the incongruence of values between the developed and the developing world, which may affect efficiency of foreign bribery laws, 67 is visible not only in the developing, but also in developed countries like, e.g., the Netherlands, where almost half of top managers are foreigners. 68 It is also significant that a large proportion of foreign managers in the EU are from the regions with a different cultural approach to bribery, such as Africa, continental Europe, 69 or Indians in the UK. 70 …”
Section: B From the Duty Bearers' Perspectivementioning
confidence: 99%