Enterprises are increasingly expected to observe environmental, social and governance (ESG) indicators and report about them. In the context of foreign direct investment (FDI), it is becoming more and more common to require foreign investors to engage in responsible business conduct as...

We employ Chinese firm-level data to examine the interconnections among firm ownership, environmental regulation, and non-environmental economic policies. We find that there are substantial differences between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and privately-owned enterprises (POEs) in response to...

AbstractA great deal of discussion concerning the impact of global pandemic COVID-19 on business and management has been going on for more than one year. As businesses across different sectors are adjusting to the new Covid-19 lifestyle, rebuilding processes and readjusting priorities are...

Multiple studies on economic transition have argued that participation in Global Value Chains (GVCs) can facilitate the process of structural transformation in developing economies by reallocating labor from less productive to more productive sectors. However, there is a dearth of empirical work...

The current law of multilateral development finance contains relatively specific legal norms on sustainability and participation. These norms have developed incrementally since the 1990s in the internal administrative law of the multilateral development banks (MDBs), especially in environmental...

The fourth Taiwan Strait crisis has spiked US-China tensions at a parlous moment for the world. Triggered by the brief visit of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, to Taipei and China’s escalation of military exercises around Taiwan (including live fire drills in six...

Developed and developing countries compete to attract firms using various instruments including corporate taxes and environmental regulations. They also commit to international environmental agreements with “common but differentiated responsibilities” (CBDR). We investigate how the...

Despite being structural entities which have relatively recently emerged, the alliances have caught global attention and interest, in a relatively short time, this giving a very well confined place in the approaches of the great political-military strategists, at all levels. The history and...

Public projects in the field of public infrastructure, energy, utilities, or any significant public projects are increasingly outsourced via public–private partnerships (PPPs) and lure multinational enterprises spanning their operations across multiple jurisdictions with varying market entry...