This article combines the institutional theory and political economy approaches to test hypotheses about how transitions in institutional environments affect the performance of Business Groups. Its primary hypothesis is ...

Research Summary: We conduct a historical analysis of the multinational corporations’ strategy of creating connections with a host country’s elite as a way of legitimizing its operations in contexts characterized by long-term ...

This dissertation is composed of two essays, the first addresses the question of political connectedness in an emerging market context. The Latin American region allows us to conduct a multicountry study that contributes ...

This paper studies the influence of politically connected Board of Directors on Brazilian firms’ future performance. We control for the drivers of firm performance on the Brazilian market, the influence of a political ...

Comparative political communication scholars repeatedly debated political parallelism as a tool to conceptualize the relation of media systems to political cleavages. Despite the fact that populism/anti-populism divides ...

This paper critically analyses pervasive contemporary discourses that call for children and young people to be “reconnected” with nature and natural resources. Simultaneously, it reflects on emerging forms of nexus thinking ...