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South Africa\u27s new bilateral investment treaty policy : a reasonable response to a flawed regime?

open access: yes, 2014
In 2010 South Africa officially adopted a new Bilateral Investment Treaty Policy. The new policy brought to an end a policy review process that was initiated following an investor-State arbitration concerning legislation introduced in the South African ...
Steenkamp, Tania
core   +1 more source

Sustainable Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Markets: The Institutional Drivers of Firms' Climate Action

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how home‐ and host‐country institutions jointly shape the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on firms' climate action commitments (CAC) in emerging markets. Drawing on New Institutional Economics and Varieties of Capitalism, we conceptualize FDI as a mechanism of institutional transmission through which multinational
Jose Pla‐Barber, David Tobón‐Orozco
wiley   +1 more source

Arbitragem de investimentos e princípios do direito ambiental: precaução e poluidor-pagador podem exercer papel na interpretação de padrões de tratamento a investidores? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências Jurídicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito, Florianópolis, 2015.Esta dissertação enfrenta a problemática ambiental no direito internacional dos investimentos ...
Pires, Bernardo Rohden
core  

National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable Business Models and Environmental Innovation Capacity: The Moderating Role of Board Effectiveness

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable Business Models (SBMs) reflect the degree to which sustainability principles are embedded across firms' business model architectures. However, the mere adoption of these models does not guarantee improvements in environmental innovation capacity due to internal organizational inertia.
Emma García‐Meca   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fairness as Balance: Investor Obligations and Investment Treaty Reform

open access: yes
The normative asymmetry between the rights and obligations of investors and host states under investment treaties has been a key reason for the treaties’ common characterization as “unbalanced”. While initially a description of a justified treaty design,
Van Der Ploeg, Klara Polackova
core   +1 more source

A Survey Experiment on How Legal Status of Nicotine Products Influences Young Adults' Perceptions and Choices

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how sales bans influence young adults' perceptions and their interest in using combustible and non‐combustible nicotine products in Türkiye. Using a scenario‐based, between‐subjects experimental design, participants aged 18–30 were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: cigarettes or e‐cigarettes, framed as either
Asena Caner   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extending Structured Dialogic Design With Multi‐Criteria Evaluation: Toward Sustainable Multi‐Species Governance

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents an innovative integration of structured democratic dialogue with a multi‐criteria evaluation step designed to strengthen participatory decision‐making for complex socio‐ecological challenges. Conducted virtually with Communities of Practice focused on multi‐species governance, the process combined systemic mapping of ...
Yiannis Laouris   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Capability Complexity Using Enterprise Architecture Framework

open access: yesSystems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study proposes a structured and quantitative methodology to evaluate the holistic complexity of system‐of‐systems (SoSs), employing the Zachman Architecture Framework (ZAF) as its foundational analytical tool. A five‐phase analytical procedure is developed and empirically validated, encompassing: (1) refinement of complexity measures, (2)
Javad Bakhshi, Mahmoud Efatmaneshnik
wiley   +1 more source

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