Purpose - This article analyses the effect of bank concentration on women's political empowerment in 80 developing countries over the period 2004-2020. Design/methodology/approach - Banking concentration (BC) is measured by the assets held by the three largest commercial banks as a percentage of...

This study examines the impact of supply chain (SC) concentration on corporate research and development (R&D) investment based on different corporate ownerships. Building upon the resource dependence theory, we find that corporations with a high concentration of SC invest less in R&D activities,...