Do Commodity Prices and Energy Markets Drive Asymmetric Volatility in Biodiversity Finance?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines symmetric and asymmetric volatility spillovers among biodiversity finance, commodity prices, and energy markets using daily data from 2019 to 2025. We apply the Diebold–Yilmaz time–domain connectedness model, Baruník–Křehlík frequency–domain decomposition, and an asymmetric spillover framework.
Ijaz Younis +4 more
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To Escalate, or Not to Escalate? Private Military and Security Companies and Conflict Severity
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2021 The existing literature is unclear about whether private military and security companies (PMSCs) are a cause of increased conflict severity, or rather are simply hired within more severe conflicts.
Nicholas Lees, Ulrich Petersohn
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Who Cares About Carbon Performance Strategy? Ownership Structure as a Driver for Carbon Performance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research aims to highlight the empirical, theoretical, and corporate governance arguments employed in the academic literature that examines ownership structure as a determinant of carbon performance—a key element in contemporary climate governance frameworks.
Thicia Stela Lima Sampaio +2 more
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Private Military Companies, Necropower and Fragile States
Contexto InternacionalPrivate military companies (PMCs) have gained prominence in the international arena since the end of the Cold War. Offering a wide range of services, these companies have been contracted by state and private actors to operate in international conflicts ...
Karina Junqueira, Cristiano Mendes
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PRIVATIZATION OF SECURITY IN THE 20TH CENTURY. FROM MERCENARIES TO PRIVATE MILITARY CORPORATIONS
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, 2018 The present paper aims to emphasize the context of the privatization of security in the 20th century and to show the differences between these newly created corporations and the old mercenaries.
Ramona Ioana GOGA
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Private Military and Security Companies and The Militarization of Humanitarianism
Journal of Developing Societies, 2021 The widespread use of private military and security companies (PMSCs) in United Nations peacebuilding missions often undermines the effectiveness of these missions. PMSCs tend to encourage, in unnecessary ways, what is called security risk management and
T. M. de Groot, S. Regilme
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Russian Use of Private Military and Security Companies - the implications for European and Norwegian Security [PDF]
, 2018 How does the Russian use of private military and security companies affect Russian use of force and what are the implications for European and Norwegian security?
Bukkvoll, Tor, Østensen, Åse Gilje
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Post‐disaster contexts generate large volumes of damaged building stock with significant, yet often unquantified, circularity potential. Through the lens of strategic management, the circular economy emerges as a transformative pathway to strengthen systemic resilience by reducing dependencies on external resources and mitigating supply chain ...
Tetiana Shevchenko +4 more
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Outsourcing intelligence: The relationship between the state and Private intelligence in post apartheid South Africa [PDF]
, 2010 The state claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of force. This is not to suggest however that the state cannot and does not outsource the practical exercise of force. On the contrary, the outsourcing of a wide range of military and security roles and
Butt, Stephen
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STATE, LEGITIMATE VIOLENCE AND ACTIVITIES OF PRIVATE MILITARY-SECURITY COMPANIES IN THE MODERN WORLD
Сравнительная политика, 2015 State, legitimate violence and activities of private military-security companies in the modern world.
D. O. Novikova
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