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Reassessing Environmental Performance Within ESG Frameworks: Efficiency‐Based Evidence From Multinational Firms

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper explores the evolving relationship between decarbonization strategies, environmental performance within ESG frameworks, and the economic performance of multinational companies in the context of increasing environmental and geopolitical uncertainty.
Maurizio Pompella, Lorenzo Costantino
wiley   +1 more source

How National Security Drives the Coevolution of International Relations and International Business Policy: Evidence From the Belt and Road Initiative

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Focusing on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this study investigates how national security drives the coevolution of China's political risk management support for multinationals and competing countries' reactions. A competing country is a nation‐state that is neither the home nor host country of a multinational but perceives the ...
Shuang Li, Xueli Huang, Fuming Jiang
wiley   +1 more source

Inherited Advantage and the Myth of Meritocracy in Business Education in the UK

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Business schools are frequently presented as meritocratic institutions that reward talent, effort and entrepreneurial capability. This article examines how business education can simultaneously acknowledge inequality rhetorically while continuing to legitimize unequal outcomes pedagogically.
David Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

Union State and modern geopolitical relations

THE CASPIAN REGION: Politics, Economics, Culture, 2016
openaire   +1 more source

German Coalition Politics: Between Pluralist Stagnation and Crisis‐Driven Welfare Retrenchment

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The current German coalition government of the centre‐right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the centre‐left Social Democrats (SPD) has spent its first year in office preparing for a major round of welfare state retrenchment. However, the coalition lacks a coherent political project.
Jörg Michael Dostal
wiley   +1 more source

Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Staging friendship: towards an anthropology of everyday geopolitics in South Asia L'amitié mise en scène : vers une anthropologie de la géopolitique du quotidien en Asie du Sud

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: On the fickleness of friendship Introduction : de l'inconstance en amitié

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In this Introduction to the special section, I provide a brief overview of the anthropology of friendship, particularly from the 1960s to the present, before focusing on the four articles that form the main body of the section. I argue that anthropologists who do not regard themselves as specialists in friendship will still find much to gain from ...
Simon Coleman
wiley   +1 more source

Contagion and Spillover Effects of the Chinese Housing Crisis on the China‐Focused ETFs Trading in the United States

Pacific Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of China's recent real estate crisis, stemming from Evergrande's struggles, on the return and risk profiles of US‐listed exchange traded funds (ETFs) tracking Chinese stock market indexes. Analysing 26 funds from February 2, 2018 to December 31, 2024, we first employ a VAR model to assess contagion and ...
Gerasimos Rompotis, Spyros Papathanasiou, Drosos Koutsokostas   +2 more
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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source