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The Multilateral Agreement on Investment and International Labor Rights: A Failed Connection [PDF]
, 1998 [Excerpt] This essay starts with an anecdote to suggest that foreign direct investment can serve workers\u27 interests when their rights are respected. The rewards of investment should not be limited to U.S. workers, either.
Compa, Lance A
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Is the well‐known phrase ‘small is beautiful’ true of small transnational education institutions?
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The purpose of this research is to consider the potential attractiveness of operating a small international branch campus (IBC). Drawing upon resource‐based and legitimacy theories, we examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats associated with the business model that is based on having a small institution size.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
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Labor Rights in the Generalized System of Preferences: A 20-Year Review [PDF]
, 2001 [Excerpt]In the fall of 1982, a small group of labor, religious, and human rights activists began charting a new course for human rights and workers\u27 rights in American trade policy. The principles of these labor rights advocates were straightforward:
Compa, Lance A, Vogt, Jeffrey S
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The impacts of biological invasions
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock +42 more
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Choice of law and interpretive authority in investor-state arbitration [PDF]
, 2017 This article rejoins one of the core debates in investor-state arbitration, over the extent to which arbitrators may refer to sources of international law beyond the investment treaty that governs the dispute.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of firm‐level climate risk on stock price informativeness (SPI) through the integrated lens of stakeholder–shareholder theory. Using a global unbalanced panel of 73,770 firm‐year observations across 38 countries (2000–2020), we find that higher carbon emissions significantly reduce SPI, reflecting increased ...
Rawinder Kaur +4 more
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International Property Rights Versus the Sovereign Rights of States: A Critical Inquiry into the Continuing Tension in the International Investment Regime [PDF]
, 2011 Events in Latin American countries have re-ignited the debate over the constitutive legal process governing the international regulation of foreign direct investment (FDI).
Ndi, George
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article evaluates the average business performance of construction firms across Spain's 17 autonomous communities within a decentralised governance framework. A regional composite sustainability index is developed, integrating economic, social and environmental intensity indicators.
Francisco José Castillo‐Díaz +3 more
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Fiat Justisia, 2015 This research aims to describe the choice of law of foreign investment after the entry into force of the Law on Investment and Its Implications for Small Entrepreneurs.
sayidin abdullah
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Territoriality of Law and the International Trade Game: Towards a New Institutional Economics of International Transactions [PDF]
The conventional theory of international trade is dominated by a model presupposing a legal order that is perfect in its specifications and controllability, binding for all economic agents, no matter their nationality.
Schmidt-Trenz, Hans-Jörg +1 more
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