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‘Let's Go to the Land Instead’: Indigenous Perspectives on Biodiversity and the Possibilities of Regenerative Capital

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The land has been a source of capital accumulation since colonization through extractive activities like mining and industrial agriculture. Indigenous peoples have profoundly different relationships with the land, which are more relational than extractive. However, their knowledge has been subjugated by and systematically excluded from Western
Diane‐Laure Arjaliès   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting the Role of Bilateral Investment Treaties in Foreign Direct Investment

open access: yesResearch in Applied Economics
This article revisits the role of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). It investigates, in particular, the institutional quality of the host countries, the number of cases brought for resolution, plus a more nuanced formulation of numbers of BITs, focusing on developing host countries.The analysis looks at more ...
Cusimano, Alessandro   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

When Great Powers Struggle: How Geopolitical Alignments of Small States Are Influenced by Their MNEs

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Comparing two distinct deglobalization periods, this study shows how Finnish multinational enterprises (MNEs) used corporate diplomatic activities (CDA) to influence Finland's alignment with a struggling great power. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory and new institutional economics, we argue that the power's collapsing global networks ...
Saara Matala, Christian Stutz
wiley   +1 more source

Japanese FDI in China - Determinants and performance [PDF]

open access: yes
Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) into China is analysed using an FDI model that accounts for different modes of FDI as well as third country effects and adds to existing literature by incorporating a new measurement of political distance ...
Shiro Armstrong
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Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Promote FDI Inflows? Evidence from India

open access: yesVikalpa, 2016
Executive Summary In view of the catalytic role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in promoting economic development, countries adopt various unilateral as well as bilateral arrangements to create a conducive environment for FDI.
Niti Bhasin, Rinku Manocha
doaj   +1 more source

Trade Wars, International Supply Chains, and Business Associations: Historical Evidence from Norway and Portugal

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the 1921–1923 trade war between Norway and Portugal as a historical case for exploring business responses to deglobalization and trade disruption. Focusing on the international supply chains (ISCs) of port wine and salted and dried cod, it investigates how business actors contributed to the recoupling of ISCs after a ...
Rolv Petter Amdam   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regulating critical technologies: National security and intellectual property

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract In recent years, claims of ‘national security’ have surged internationally to protect various security interests including public health, economic security and cybersecurity. National industrial strategies for building critical technologies challenge the scope of ‘national security’ in international intellectual property (IP) protection ...
Phoebe Li, Atilla Kasap
wiley   +1 more source

The Evolution of bilateral investment treaties, investment treaty arbitration and international investment

open access: yes, 2011
Explores the evolution of the current regime involving foreign direct investment, bilateral investment treaties and investment treaty arbitration, and considers why a harmonised multilateral investment agreement has never been adopted.
Ahmad Ghouri (4465159)
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Patent landscape analysis of inventions based on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and related digital sequence information

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract This article provides an overview of the patent landscape in relation to PGRFA‐based inventions involving naturally occurring (“native”) traits and related Digital Sequence Information/Genetic Sequence Data (DSI/GSD). In particular, it focuses on the potential of patent claims to limit others' uses of PGRFA and related DSI/GSD on which the ...
Claudio Chiarolla   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rights and obligations in the post-investment treaty denunciation period

open access: yes, 2018
Buried at the back of most international investment agreements are denunciation provisions, which before the twenty-first century, were rarely remarked upon. In this century, however, a vibrant body of academic scholarship on treaty dissolution continues
Nyombi, C., Mortimer, T.
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