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Michael Carney

Michael Carney

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Business and Management

D-Index
40
Citations
10348
World Ranking
1642
National Ranking
71

Overview

Michael Carney is affiliated with Concordia University in Canada and focuses primarily on research within the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their work spans several subfields including Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, as well as General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Their research covers a variety of main topics, notably Family Business Performance and Succession, Corporate Finance and Governance, International Business and Foreign Direct Investment, Global Trade and Economics, Private Equity and Venture Capital, International Development and Aid, and Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy.

Michael Carney has published papers in multiple academic venues. Frequent publication venues include Academy of Management Proceedings, Journal of World Business, Family Business Review, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Journal of International Business Studies.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael Carney include:

  • How do cross-country differences in institutional trust and trust in family explain the mixed performance effects of family management? A meta-analysis, 2021, Journal of World Business
  • Inheritance tax, shareholder protection, and the market value of family firms: A cross-country analysis, 2020, Global Strategy Journal
  • The business family as an institutional arbitrageur: Internationalization across institutional contexts, 2023, Journal of World Business
  • Business group persistence and institutional maturity: the role of management practices, 2020, Industrial and Corporate Change
  • Business Groups and Export Performance: The Role of Coordination Failures and Institutional Configurations, 2023, Journal of Management Studies

Michael Carney has collaborated regularly with several co-authors. Frequent collaborators include Zhixiang Liang, Patricio Durán, Peter Jaskiewicz, Ramzi Fathallah, and Marcelo Ortiz.

Best Publications

  • Corporate Governance and Competitive Advantage in Family-Controlled Firms

    Michael Carney

  • Vertical integration in Franchise systems: Agency theory and resource explanations

    Mick Carney;Eric Gedajlovic

  • Business Group Affiliation, Performance, Context, and Strategy: A Meta-analysis

    Michael Carney;Eric R. Gedajlovic;Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens;Marc Van Essen

  • The Adolescence of Family Firm Research Taking Stock and Planning for the Future

    Eric R. Gedajlovic;Michael Carney;James J. Chrisman;James J. Chrisman;Franz W. Kellermanns;Franz W. Kellermanns

  • What Do We Know About Private Family Firms? A Meta-Analytical Review

    Michael Carney;Marc Van Essen;Eric R. Gedajlovic;Pursey P.M.A.R. Heugens

  • Markets, Hierarchies, and Families: Toward a Transaction Cost Theory of the Family Firm

    Eric Gedajlovic;Michael Carney

  • The Co-evolution of Institutional Environments and Organizational Strategies: The Rise of Family Business Groups in the ASEAN Region

    Michael Carney;Eric Gedajlovic

  • Does “Good” Corporate Governance Help in a Crisis? The Impact of Country- and Firm-Level Governance Mechanisms in the European Financial Crisis

    Marc van Essen;Peter-Jan Engelen;Michael Carney

  • Varieties of Asian Capitalism: Toward an Institutional Theory of Asian Enterprise

    Michael Carney;Eric Gedajlovic;Xiaohua Yang

  • The Coupling of Ownership and Control and the Allocation of Financial Resources: Evidence from Hong Kong

    Michael Carney;Eric Gedajlovic

  • Corporate boards and the performance of Asian firms: A meta-analysis

    Marc van Essen;J. Hans van Oosterhout;Michael Carney

  • A Management Capacity Constraint? Obstacles to the Development of the Overseas Chinese Family Business

    Michael Carney

  • How does family control influence firm strategy and performance? A meta-analysis of us publicly listed firms

    Marc van Marc van Essen;Michael Carney;Eric R. Gedajlovic;Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens

  • Strategic Innovation and the Administrative Heritage of East Asian Family Business Groups

    Michael Carney;Eric Gedajlovic

  • The Resilient Family Firm: Stakeholder Outcomes and Institutional Effects

    Marc van Essen;Vanessa M. Strike;Michael Carney;Stephen Sapp

  • Who Fills Institutional Voids? Entrepreneurs’ Utilization of Political and Family Ties in Emerging Markets:

    Jianhua Ge;Michael Carney;Franz Kellermanns

  • Airport governance reform: a strategic management perspective

    Michael Carney;Michael Carney;Keith Mew

  • Public, private and mixed ownership and the performance of international airlines

    Mattijs Backx;Michael Carney;Eric Gedajlovic

  • The Strategy and Structure of Collective Action

    M.G. Carney

  • Business Group Performance in China: Ownership and Temporal Considerations

    Michael Carney;Daniel Shapiro;Yao Tang

  • Value Creation and Performance in Private Family Firms Measurement and Methodological Issues

    Pramodita Sharma;Pramodita Sharma;Michael Carney

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Gedajlovic
Eric Gedajlovic Simon Fraser University
Daniel Shapiro
Daniel Shapiro Simon Fraser University
Saul Estrin
Saul Estrin London School of Economics and Political Science
Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens
Pursey P. M. A. R. Heugens Erasmus University Rotterdam
Franz W. Kellermanns
Franz W. Kellermanns University of North Carolina at Charlotte
James J. Chrisman
James J. Chrisman Mississippi State University
Pramodita Sharma
Pramodita Sharma University of Vermont

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