The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are increasingly used by corporations for benchmarking and communicating their sustainability performance. The SDGs have several features that make them attractive for this purpose, including their universality, specificity and, in many cases, direct...

We examine institutional change processes in authoritarian settings and hypothesize how different types of institutional pressure can spur governmental action concerning firms' environmental performance. Authoritarian states' pursuit of maintaining legitimacy and retaining control is the key...

Chapter 5 discusses the core problems Web3 companies need to solve in order to achieve progress for the decentralized economy. The electrical revolution took more than a century to come to fruition, because of the need to develop uniform standards for production, transmission, storage, and...

Recent transparency reforms in China are intended in part to help activists, journalists, and others to limit the ability of the local party-state to engage in practices that not only harm ordinary Chinese but also go against central government interests. However, implementing these reforms...

This dissertation is an empirical investigation of the implications of the Indonesian oil palm sector for rural village communities located in Jambi province, on the island of Sumatra. It consists of three contributions to the scientific literature on land-use dynamics, economic development, and...