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The impact of regulatory and financial discrimination on China's low-carbon development: Considering firm heterogeneity

Advances in Climate Change Research, 2020
Firms in China within the same industry but with different ownership and size have different production functions and face different emission regulations and financial conditions, thus can give very different responses to environmental policies.
Wei-Qi Tang, Bo Meng, Li-Bo Wu
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Affective dimensions in the information behavior of forcibly displaced people: A literature review. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This review analyzed 241 scholarly articles published between 2010 and 2025 in information science venues to examine how affect shapes refugees' information behavior during forced migration and to identify additional contextual factors. It identifies seven affective dimensions: anxiety, shame and stigma, grief and loss, frustration, (mis)trust,
Maja Krtalić, Lilach Alon
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A profile of the video game industry in the Canadian provinces

Economic and Social Reports
This article provides new statistics on the video game industry across the Canadian provinces from 2013 to 2022, focusing on three main areas of interest.
Rupert Allen, Jenny Watt
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The Impact of the Ownership Structure and Board Characteristics on Earnings Management in Nigeria’s Listed Deposit Money Banks [PDF]

Economic Horizons, 2018
In many countries, there are a certain number of organizations going through severe crises due to a failure in corporate governance. In this study, the main aim is to determine how the ownership structure and the characteristics of the boards of Nigeria ...
Olubunmi Florence Osemene, Joshua Solomon Adeyele, Pauline Adinnu   +2 more
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The boundaries of the law: can US private enforcement discipline foreign firms?

Journal of International Business Studies
Existing studies tend to focus on how a legal system reinforces the efficiency of its domestic firms or foreign companies that are subject to its domestic jurisdiction (e.g., via cross-listing). Our study provides critical normative implications in the era of financial globalization by showing that the influence of a country’s legal institutions extend
MASSA, Massimo, WANG, Xiaoqiao, ZHANG, Bohui, ZHANG, Hong   +3 more
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A university‐certified course on dossier assessment for regulatory scientists in Africa—Reporting on our 5‐year experience

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aim The shortage of trained clinical assessors in African National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) poses a challenge to effective regulatory decision‐making. Developed in line with the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Competency Framework (WHO‐GCF), a university‐certified short course, Dossier assessment for clinical assessors in Africa, was ...
Stephanie Leigh, Boitumelo Semete‐Makokotlela, Ivana Škrnjug‐Yudov, David Mukanga, Delese Mimi Darko, Eric Karikari‐Boateng, Peter Stonier, Luther Gwaza, Precious Matsoso, Bernd Rosenkranz, Birka Lehmann, Arnold G. Vulto, John G. Woodland, Shabir Banoo, Frieda Shigwedha, Maphutheho Selikane, Unathi Mabona‐Mgoqi, Asare Yeboah, Ntombi Mthembu, Goonaseelan ( Colin) Pillai   +19 more
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Commercialization of Innovation by Western Universities

Ekonomika Nauki, 2020
It is shown that the vast majority of foreign researchers consider university structures to be an important and economically sustainable mechanism for the transfer of new industrial technologies, that these structures accelerate the economic development ...
I. S. Fishman
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Expanding to outward foreign direct investment or not? A multi-dimensional analysis of entry mode transformation of Chinese private exporting firms [PDF]

International Business Review, 2014
This research examines the factors determining whether or not exporting firms expand to outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) as part of their internationalisation strategy, using a recent survey of Chinese private-owned enterprises. We carry out a multi-dimensional analysis to investigate the impact of firm productivity, internal resources and the ...
Wei, Yingqi, Zheng, Nan, Liu, Xiaohui, Lu, Jiangyong   +3 more
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Capacity building in medicines development and regulation in Africa—Overview on recent progress

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims Despite advances in health research and digital innovation, many African countries continue to face substantial resource constraints, fragmented capacity‐building efforts and a shortage of skilled professionals in medicines development and regulatory science.
Tirhani Maluleke, Emile Malan, Michael Reid, Patrick Bouic, Haylene Nell, Goonaseelan Pillai, Catriona Waitt, Bernd Rosenkranz   +7 more
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Framing National Education in Hong Kong: A frame analysis of power dynamics in stakeholders' competing narratives

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how national education in Hong Kong functions as a contested arena in which state and non‐state actors struggle over the meaning of citizenship, identity and schooling. Using inductive frame analysis of 319 news articles (2020–2025) from five Chinese‐ and English‐language outlets, it identifies diagnostic, prognostic and ...
Jason Cong Lin
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