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Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
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From Custom to Court: The Evolution of Mediation in European Legal Systems
ABSTRACT This article traces how European mediation has repeatedly rebalanced three variables—(1) the source of mediator authority, (2) the degree of institutionalization, and (3) the operative meaning of voluntariness—from antiquity to the present. Using three periods—Proto‐Mediation (c. 500 BCE–c. 1750), Classical Mediation (c.
Viktoriia Hamaiunova
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ABSTRACT This article argues that China's 2026 Business Mediation Ordinance represents neither progress toward rule of law nor retreat from it. I propose instead that we are witnessing something I call “calibrated autonomy”—the strategic construction of spaces for private ordering that remain tethered to Party‐State oversight through multiple ...
M. Francis Cao
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Ethical Behaviour and Corporate Financing. The Case of ‘Legality Rating’
ABSTRACT The financial crisis has heightened awareness of ethical and legal issues in the business context. Corporate ethical behaviour is increasingly measured through sustainability ratings. Since 2012, in Italy, the introduction of a sustainability rating, namely the legality rating (LR), has served as an innovative ‘label’ for socially responsible ...
Federica Doni +3 more
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ABSTRACT Using an integrated framework that combines the natural resource‐based view with contingency theory, this study examines how environmental management control systems (EMCS) build multinational firms' environmental capabilities and balance their environmental and economic performance while accounting for cross‐country contextual conditions.
Kimitaka Nishitani +4 more
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ABSTRACT Digitalization has reshaped professional services, yet its impact on client satisfaction remains ambiguous. This study examines the efficiency‐satisfaction paradox in China's digitized legal services. Using 5,500 client assessments from 110 firms, we identify an inverted U‐shaped relationship between legal service efficiency (LSE) and customer
Wenjing Liu, Soo Jeong Hong
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Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Social Irresponsibility
ABSTRACT This study examines whether and how firms' adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is associated with corporate social irresponsibility (CSI). Ex ante, theories provide conflicting predictions regarding this association, making it an important empirical question.
Tobias Steindl
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Exposing Gender Blindness in Business Scholarship on Modern Slavery
ABSTRACT The objective of this review is to analyse the treatment of gender within business scholarship on modern slavery and to propose a framework that supports more gender‐sensitive corporate responses. Modern slavery risk is an escalating concern for business, with the United Nations calling for its eradication by 2030.
Kathyayini Kathy Rao +2 more
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ABSTRACT Objective Emerging evidence indicates that experiencing discrimination is associated with disordered eating. This study aimed to test the association between experiences of colorism (skin shade discrimination penalizing those with darker skin) and the prevalence of disordered weight control behaviors (DWCBs) in four Asian countries/regions ...
Nadia Craddock +5 more
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