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Calibrated Autonomy: China's 2026 Business Mediation Ordinance and the Reconfiguration of Dispute Resolution

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability Assessment of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises: A Systematic Review and Hybrid Architecture for Credible, Salient, and Legitimate Knowledge Governance

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability assessment advances corporate social responsibility toward inclusive development. Widely recognized approaches prove inadequate for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), resulting in fragmented proliferation that hinders cumulative knowledge.
Luísa Couto Gonçalves de Souza   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Future challenges and paradigmatic changes in international arbitration: A peek behind the curtain

open access: yesInternational Review of Law, 2017
The unprecedented growth of international arbitration and the current state of euphoria should not serve to obscure the several challenges that lie ahead.
Mohamed H. Negm
doaj   +2 more sources

Does ESG Drive Performance or Does Performance Enable ESG? Evidence of Reverse Causality From Korean Firms

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)‐performance literature has grown substantially, yet a fundamental question remains underexplored: do ESG investments improve firm performance, or do high‐performing firms simply invest more in ESG? We empirically address this question using panel vector autoregression with Granger causality tests
Jiyeon Kim, Wooyoung Yang
wiley   +1 more source

TRANSPARENCY AND CONFIDENTIALITY REQUIREMENTS IN INVESTMENT TREATY ARBITRATION

open access: yesBRICS Law Journal, 2018
he values of confidentiality and transparency are often invoked in the theory and practice of investment treaty arbitration. Transparency is considered to be one of the key aspects of good governance and corporate social responsibility.
Azhaham Perumal Perumal Saravanan   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
wiley   +1 more source

An analysis on the criterion "Assistance to the economic development of the host state" for realizing the concept of investment contracts under the ICSID Arbitration Convention [PDF]

open access: yesدانشنامه حقوق اقتصادی
The ICSID Convention in the settlement of investment disputes for several reasons does not provide a definition of investment contracts, which has caused the judicial procedure in many international investment arbitration cases to try to explain the ...
Mohammad Javad Abdollahi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Green Finance, Energy Transition and Biodiversity Conservation in Africa: A Dynamic Analysis of African Countries

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study evaluates the dynamic relationship between Green Finance (proxied by green Official Development Assistance) and the expansion of Renewable Energies on biodiversity conservation across 48 African countries over the period 2000–2017.
Mounkaila Gourouza Nana Hadiza   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Host States’ Counterclaims on Human Rights in Practical Investment Arbitration

open access: yesAsian Journal of Law and Policy, 2022
This paper analyzes the potential hindrance to the positive results of counterclaims on human rights protection in the practical investment arbitration, then evaluates whether ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement and other treaties with investment ...
Tho Thi Anh Nguyen
doaj   +1 more source

Human Rights Law in International Investment Arbitration [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
Parts I-III of this paper give an overview of references to human rights – mainly at the initiative of host states and non-governmental third parties, but increasingly also by complainants and judges on their own initiative – in international investment disputes and investor-state arbitral awards and the responses by investment tribunals to such human ...
KUBE, Vivian, PETERSMANN, Ernst-Ulrich
openaire   +4 more sources

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