State on Board!

Nga Pham is a research fellow at the Monash Centre for Financial Studies, Monash University, Australia. She is also a member of the Disclosure and Transparency Committee of the International Corporate Governance Network. Before joining Monash University, Nga was the Dean of the Faculty of Management and Tourism and the Executive Director of La Trobe programs at Hanoi University. She was also a consultant to the International Finance Corporation (the World Bank Group) in corporate governance. She is a CFA Charterholder. Kok-Boon Oh has over 40 years of industry experience in corporate finance, international business and academia in the Asia-Pacific Region. He held senior management positions in US and Asian multinational corporations. Kok-Boon has taught at La Trobe Business School. He has co-authored 11 reference books, and over 70 refereed international conference papers and journal articles.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Changing Role of State-Invested Enterprises in Emerging Markets.- 3 Beyond the Local Economy.- 4 Corporate Governance of State-Invested Enterprises.- 5 The Empirical Research: Design and Methods.- 6 Qualitative Findings: M&A Motivations and Performance Drivers.- 7 Quantitative Findings on the Impacts of State Ownership on M&A Performance.- 8 State Control, Corporate Governance and M&A Performance.- 9 Model Building and Concluding Thoughts.