Debt-for-development exchanges grew out of debt-equity exchanges and now include debt-for-nature, debt-for-education and debt2health exchanges, among other variants. This history and analysis of the evolution of this idea sheds considerable light upon the technique and allows a more nuanced...

Purpose – The purpose of the study reported in this article is to examine the role of management in establishing anti‐corruption organisational culture in law enforcement agencies. The study focuses on organisational perspectives on corruption and on the views of managers regarding the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine in detail the positive and negative aspects of selected soft law initiatives and the relevance of hard laws in the pursuit of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Design/methodology/approach – Soft law initiatives are categorized into...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand the complex interplay between illicit opioids trade and consumption practices and state policies that aim to reduce their misuse. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted an exploratory design. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the status and implications of promise ( wa'd ) in Islamic banking practices and the extent of its enforceability in the court of law. The analysis highlights the concept of wa'd , its application and limitation in the present practices....

Abstract In this paper, we argue that there is strategic complementarity in criminal behavior. Strategic complementarity arises because the apprehension probability that affects the crime rate depends on the crime rate itself. The natural consequence is the possible multiplicity of the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the practical and legal challenges and barriers to the development of a private action in antitrust controls and to project those onto a consideration of the development of such rights of action through a case study of Brazil....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study police crime, which is defined as crime committed by police employees on duty. Design/methodology/approach – Based on an empirical study of all police court crime cases in Norway for the last four years, relationships between coded variables...