This book explores the environmental competitiveness of 133 countries around the world, presenting an index evaluation … system to facilitate a comparative analysis of environmental competitiveness on a global scale. This is a new way to measure … competitiveness in the light of the contradiction between world economic development and environmental protection. Global …

Christoph Michael Hindermann uses a statistical approach to analyze the impact of economic freedom on state legitimacy …. Based on multiple regression models, the author not only extracts the determinants of legitimacy but also shows that rule of … law is the most important area of economic freedom for legitimacy. In addition, the results also indicate that democracies …

This volume explores organizational legitimacy in business, featuring examples from a variety of industries around the … which organizational legitimacy can be understood, its perceived influence on the market, and the relationship between … organizational legitimacy and overall organizational success. The authors draw from different methodological perspectives to develop …