We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a comprehensive and exhaustive dataset for outward FDI from the Netherlands, one of the most environmentally stringent countries and a major source of global FDI. Our evidence suggests that...

We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a comprehensive and exhaustive dataset for outward FDI from the Netherlands, one of the most environmentally stringent countries and a major source of global FDI. Our evidence suggests that...

Firms are under increasing pressure to meet stakeholders’ demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their global value chains. We study the incentives for and investments in CSR at different stages of the production process. We analyze a model of sequential production with...

Over the past decade, there has been growing interest in how multinational corporations (MNCs) can enter the base of the pyramid (BoP) market (London and Hart, 2004, Schuster and Holtbrügge, 2012, Tasavori et al., 2014, Dey et al., 2013). The BoP is composed of 1.4 billion people who earn...

We examine how corporate reporting regimes can facilitate technology-enabled green financing to achieve sustainable development goals. To this end, we evaluate through a comparative analysis, whether an ‘E’ (i.e. environmental) disclosure should be mandatory, voluntary, or hybrid, and...

Sustainable finance, as a distinct category of finance, entails the introduction of environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into financial decision-making. Previous work at the international level such as the UN Principles for Responsible Investment and the Global Compact...

We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a comprehensive and exhaustive dataset for outward FDI from the Netherlands, one of the most environmentally stringent countries and a major source of global FDI. Our evidence suggests that...

Sustainability has attracted increasing attention from business scholars as corporations have started to take more responsibility for their environmental, social, and development impacts. In this review, we focus on the latest sustainability-related research published in the international...

We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a comprehensive and exhaustive dataset for outward FDI from the Netherlands, one of the most environmentally stringent countries and a major source of global FDI. Our evidence suggests that...

Companies are increasingly required to deal with sustainability issues through the adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices. Among the different CSR aspects, workers securities fulfill a necessary issue. SA8000 is an internationally accepted tool that aims to guarantee decent...