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Business and Human Rights : The Struggle for Accountability in the UN and the Future Direction of the Advocacy Agenda

Feeney, Patricia - 2010

Over the past 40 years the United Nations has made various attempts to develop global standards to hold companies accountable for their involvement in human rights abuses. This article traces the growing awareness of business-related human rights abuses and the limitations of the traditional...

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Diversity in University Models and the Innovation Ecosystem : A Comparative Study of India and Britain

Datta, Surja - 2014

This paper argues that sufficient diversity in university models in a country can ensure that different innovation … of universities that specialise in provision of similar kinds of innovation inputs. Building from existing theoretical … innovation niches that are open for the university sector and how these are catered to by different strategic groups operating …

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Rivalry and Superior Dispatch : An Analysis of Competing Courts in Medieval and Early Modern England

Stringham, Edward Peter; Zywicki, Todd J. - 2010

In most areas, economists look to competition to align incentives, but not so with courts. Many believe that competition enables plaintiff forum shopping, but Adam Smith praised rivalry among courts. This article describes the courts when the common law developed. In many areas of law, courts...

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Strong or Weak Ties? British and Indian Expatriate Scientists Finding Jobs in Boston

Harvey, William S. - 2012

In this article I analyse the different social networks that British and Indian scientists use to obtain job information in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector around Boston, Massachusetts. I argue that individuals’ social networks are critical in helping highly skilled migrants find...

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The Social Networks of British and Indian Expatriate Scientists in Boston

Harvey, William S. - 2012

This paper argues that although the social networks of highly skilled migrants are important, British and Indian scientists in Boston tend not to use expatriate social networks. I demonstrate that wider differences in cultural norms to the indigenous population, homogeneity within a migrant...

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Immigration and Emigration Decisions Among Highly Skilled British Expatriates in Vancouver

Harvey, William S. - 2012

This chapter compares the reasons why highly skilled British expatriates immigrated to and would emigrate from Canada. The reasons respondents left the UK and would return to the UK were markedly different. Job opportunities, for example, were important in immigration decisions, whereas family...

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Using Rival Effects to Identify Synergies and Improve Merger Typologies

Duso, Tomaso; Clougherty, Joseph A. - 2010

The strategic management literature has found it difficult to differentiate between collusive and efficiency-based synergies in horizontal merger activity. We propose a schematic to classify mergers that yields more information on merger types and merger effects, and that can, moreover,...

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Multinational Corporation Codes of Conduct : Governance Tools for Corporate Social Responsibility?

Matten, Dirk; Moon, Jeremy; Bondy, Krista - 2010

Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Issue: We investigate the assumption found in code and corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature that suggests codes are primarily associated with the CSR practices of an organization. Research Findings/Results: A web-based study of 150 corporations...

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Employee Volunteering and Social Capital : Contributions to Corporate Social Responsibility

Matten, Dirk; Muthuri, Judy N.; Moon, Jeremy - 2013

Employee Volunteering (EV) has been analysed as a human resource strategy but not yet as a form of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). As EV is increasingly regarded as a means of improving companies’ community and employee relations, this paper investigates the contribution of EV to CSR,...

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Quantitative Analysis of Health Insurance Reform : Separating Regulation from Redistribution

Pashchenko, Svetlana; Porapakkarm, Ponpoje - 2022

Two key components of the upcoming health reform in the U.S. are a new regulation of the individual health insurance market and an increase in income redistribution in the economy. Which component contributes more to the welfare outcome of the reform? We address this question by constructing a...

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