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The World: 300 Years of Urbanization Expansion : Global Urban Competitiveness Report (2019-2020)

Ni, Pengfei; Kamiya, Marco; Guo, Jing; Xu, Haidong - 2023

1. Ranking of Urban Competitiveness 2019 -- 2. The world: 300 years of Urbanization Expansion -- 3. Experience & Methods of Global Municipal Finance -- 4. 2019 Global Urban Economic Competitiveness Performance -- 5. Explanatory indicators of Economic Competitiveness -- 6. 2019 Global Urban...

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The new urban paradigm

Lanfranchi, Gabriel; Herrero, Ana Carolina; Palenzuela, … - 2018

This policy brief argues in favor of a new urban model that harnesses the power that cities have to curb global warming. Such a model tackles fundamental management challenges in the energy, building and transport sectors to promote the growth of diverse and compact cities. Such a model is...

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How future managers view societal culture : a comparison across seven CEE countries

Catana, Doina; Pučko, Danijel; Krzykała-Schaefer, Renata - In: Journal of East European management studies : JEEMS 18 (2013) 4, pp. 463-481

The purpose of our exploratory study is to describe the characteristics of a sample of Central and East European students in business and engineering from their cultural assumption perspective. The cluster-distinctive cultural practices are: High Power Distance, In-group and Institutional...

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The effects of corporate and country sustainability characteristics on the cost of debt : an international investigation

Hoepner, Andreas G. F.; Oikonomou, Ioannis; Scholtens, Bert - 2014 - This version: October 2014

We investigate the relationship between corporate and country sustainability on the cost of bank loans. We look into 470 loan agreements signed between 2005 and 2012 with borrowers based on 28 different countries across the world and operating in all major industries. Our principal findings...

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Connection between Economics, Culture and Cultural Diplomacy

Valiyev, Agil - 2017

Today, culture is one of the main feeble factors of economic development. The leading role of culture in economic … social development based on tolerance, creativity and knowledge. To the different international experiences, culture is the … development model. The article consist of explanations about the understanding of culture, cultural diplomacy and economics …

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Shareholders and stakeholders around the world: the role of values, culture, and law in directors' decisions

Licht, Amir N.; Adams, Renée - 2020 - This version: 5 November 2020

We present evidence on the way personal and institutional factors could together guide public company directors in decision-making concerning shareholders and stakeholders. In a sample comprising more than nine hundred directors originating from over fifty countries and serving in firms from...

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Do institutional investors drive corporate social responsibility? : international evidence

Dyck, Alexander; Lins, Karl; Roth, Lukas; Wagner, Hannes - 2017

This paper assesses whether shareholders drive the environmental and social (E&S) performance of firms worldwide. Across 41 countries, institutional ownership is positively associated with E&S performance with additional tests suggests this relation is causal. Institutions are motivated by both...

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Critical review of models, containing cultural levels beyond the organizational one

Dimitrov, Kiril - 2012

The current article traces back the scientific interest to cultural levels across the organization at the University of National and World Economy, and especially in the series of Economic Alternatives - an official scientific magazine, issued by this Institution. Further, a wider and critical...

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Private-Sector Corruption : Measurement and Cultural Origins

Lucas, Viola; Gutmann, Jerg - 2016

determinants of public-sector corruption (Kong and Volkema 2016). Our results confirm that culture matters not only for corruption …

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Assessing Cultural Influences in Megaproject Practices

Pau, Louis-Francois; Langeland, Anders; Njå, Ove - 2014

culture, it is shown that Scandinavian project management practices evidence a specific combination of cultural influence … measures relying on hybrid governance and communications, unique work culture and tools, as well as an approach to adaptation …

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