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CSR disclosure and investment efficiency in MENA countries: The moderating role of CSR committee
Strategic Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD) is often recognized as a transparency mechanism that allows companies to communicate their commitment to CSR. However, CSRD may also exacerbate agency conflicts. This study addresses these two contrasting perspectives by investigating the impact of CSRD on investment efficiency and exploring ...
Mohamed Malek Belhoula +3 more
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Effects of Corporate Policies and Governance Practices on Ownership Structure: Evidence from Chilean Firms [PDF]
, 2018 We analyze the effects of financing policies, dividends, and corporate governance on ownership structure in Chilean companies. We used a sample of 185 companies listed on the Santiago Stock Exchange that answered the NCG 341 survey on Corporate ...
Muñoz-Mendoza, Jorge Andrés +2 more
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Contesting Regulatory Capacity: Exploring Doctrines in the Regulatory State
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The contemporary literature on regulation and development has emphasised the importance of low discretion devices for achieving desired policy objectives. At the same time, there has been a growing recognition that state capacity in general, and regulatory capacity more specifically, are essential for achieving development goals in a world of ...
Bruno Queiroz Cunha, Martin Lodge
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Restoring forests can help conserve biodiversity, mitigate climate change and enhance human well‐being. Despite financial and political support for global forest restoration initiatives, projects continue to face persistent challenges and trade‐offs between environmental, climatic and socio‐economic goals.
Mariana Hernandez‐Montilla +24 more
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Indirect expropriation of foreign investors; an investigation to Iran and international law [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Khuṣūṣī, 2018 Protection of the foreign investment in a host state is one of the main concerns of international law in today’s business and economics world. However, the question of which investors’ conducts should be protected is subject to controversy.
sadegh teimoori +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Displacing people to make way for development projects is contentious. Empirical research demonstrates that neither human rights guidelines nor multilateral lenders' standards guarantee positive, sustainable outcomes for displaced people. With multiple new displacing projects proposed globally, including for renewable energy, we propose a new ...
Eddie Smyth +2 more
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On Competition and the Strategic Management of Intellectual Property in Oligopoly [PDF]
, 2009 An innovative firm with private information about its indivisible process innovation chooses strategically whether to apply for a patent with probabilistic validity or rely on secrecy.
Jansen, Jos
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Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Executive Summary Strategic decisions related to ownership participation in cross‐border acquisitions (CBAs) are among the most fundamental choices for African firms to address the unique internationalization challenges related to their home country context.
Dominik Anderhofstadt +2 more
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Struggles to remain in Kigali’s “unplanned” settlements: the case of Bannyahe [PDF]
, 2020 Examining the precarious status of informal settlements in Kigali at a time of large-scale planning-induced expropriation, this article considers urban contestation in the context of the city’s changing spatial-legal regime.
Corburn, J, Esmail, S
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Real Estate Expropriation without Compensation
Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2020 The Iraqi constitution (2005) considers private property protected, and expropriation is permissible only for the public benefit and in return for fair compensation, but there are provisions in the Iraqi Acquisition Law and the Iraqi and Kurdistan ...
Hewa Ibrahim Qadir, Dhzhir Majid Qadir
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