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The Xenocentric Mindset: Cultural and Personality Drivers Behind Consumer Preferences

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the psychological and cultural dimensions that influence consumer xenocentrism in Brazil and Iran, focusing on horizontal–vertical individualism–collectivism and the “Big Five” personality traits—extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and intellect/imagination.
José I. Rojas‐Méndez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trade Sustainability and Aid under Liberalization in Fragile Least Developed Countries [PDF]

open access: yes
This study investigates the effect of trade liberalization on export growth, import growth, the trade balance and the current account of the balance of payments in 17 least developed countries (LDCs) over the period 1970 to 2001.
Santos-Paulino, Amelia U.
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A Michaelis‐Arbuzov‐Type Pathway to a Protected 2ʹ‐Deoxy‐2ʹ‐Selenomethyl‐Adenosine‐3ʹ,5ʹ‐Phosphoroselenolate Guanosine Dinucleotide for Use in Modified m7G Cap Synthesis

open access: yesChemistry – A European Journal, EarlyView.
Here we report a synthesis of the dinucleotide 4 for a projected future total synthesis of the m7G cap 1. Highlights of the route include: 1) a 3ʹ‐H‐phosphonate/5ʹ‐selenocyanate Michaelis‐Arbuzov coupling to forge the 3ʹ,5ʹ‐phosphoroselenolate; 2) an Amosova reductive selenomethylation to install the 2ʹ‐SeMe; 3) a solid CPR II 5ʹ‐O‐phosphitylation; and
K. Lawrence E. Hale   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

International financial adjustment [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper proposes a unified framework to study the dynamics of net foreign assets and exchange rate movements. We show that deteriorations in a country's net exports or net foreign asset position have to be matched either by future net export growth ...
Hélène Rey, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
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Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects It Has Had the Romanian Accession to the European Union on Trading Policy

open access: yesEIRP Proceedings, 2016
It reveals that imports have increased in the last decade compared to exports, which had an importance quite special, and taken the fact that for two decades, every year, the trade balance of Romania was deficient in terms of exports and politics ...
Alexandru-George Marcu   +1 more
doaj  

Exchange rate and trade balance in east asia: is there a J-curve? [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the short run and long run effects of real exchange rate changes on the real trade balance of three ASEAN countries in their bilateral trade to the US and Japan within a cointegrating vector error correction model (VECM).
OLUGBENGA ONAFOWORA
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Industrial Sustainability Policies: Systematic Literature Review and Research Directions

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public policies for industrial sustainability have proliferated in recent years, leading to a significant increase in research on the topic. Nevertheless, these studies remain fragmented, and a holistic, up‐to‐date map of research integrating current knowledge from the definition of the agenda setting and policy design to policy evaluation ...
Nunzia Zecchillo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

External asymmetries in the euro area and the role of foreign direct investment [PDF]

open access: yes
A few years after the establishment of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), large asymmetries emerged in the trade balances and the current accounts of the member-states.
Nicos Christodoulakis   +1 more
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When Diversity Meets Family Owners: ESG Performance in European Publicly Listed Firms

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how the interaction between board diversity and family as owners shapes firms' ESG performance. Prior research has established that board diversity fosters more informed, ethical, and stakeholder‐oriented decision‐making, thereby enhancing corporate legitimacy and responsiveness to diverse stakeholder expectations ...
Giorgia Maria D'Allura   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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