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Corporate and public governances in transition: the limits of property rights and the significance of legal institutions [PDF]
Post-socialist transition raises crucial issues about the institutional setting of a market economy. The priority has been given to property rights, and privatization has been advocated as a means to depoliticize economic activities.
Jean-Francois Nivet
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Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid growing global attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG), this study examines the misalignment between ESG disclosures and actual practices—termed ‘lip service’—using data from Chinese firms from 2006 to 2022, constructing an index to quantify it.
Jia Xu, Mingwei Liu, Helen X. H. Bao
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Analysis of the Rights and Obligations of Stakeholders in China’s National Park Concession System
Fengjing YuanlinObjectiveThe establishment of a concession system is a pivotal endeavor for China’s transition into the era of national parks. The concession system is of paramount importance, as it has the potential to alleviate fiscal pressures on public funds ...
Le ZHONG, Zhicong ZHAO
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Whether corporate carbon management can enhance productive efficiency is central to firms' long‐term competitiveness and determines whether carbon reduction efforts can be sustained beyond regulatory compliance. This study examines how corporate carbon risk and opportunity management affects firm productivity (measured by total factor ...
Nan Huang, Hanlu Fan, Ruoxin Zhu
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PRIVATIZATION IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES
Acta Economica, 2003 I examine the motives for and goals of privatization pursued in transition economies. Following this, I sketch the various techniques of divestment in some sense used up to now. Privatization has been used in a broad sense of fostering the market economy
Гордана Миловановић, PhD
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although ESG controversies are on the rise, research investigating them yields contradictory findings. The paper provides resolutions to the debate through investigating (a) how ESG controversies influence firms' short‐term and long‐term financial performance; (b) how firms navigate ESG controversies' effect; and (c) how ESG controversies ...
Amalesh Sharma +3 more
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Asymmetric property rights in China's economic growth: [PDF]
"This paper highlights the difference between secure investor property rights and loosely defined individual property rights. Globalization and fiscal decentralization have intensified this difference.
Zhang, Xiaobo
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between waste management outcomes and corporate investment efficiency, as well as the moderating role of CSR committees, using a panel of 267 non‐financial French listed firms over the period 2011–2022.
Bilel Bzeouich +2 more
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Ownership stability and executive pay gap: evidence from China
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsIn recent years, the executive pay gap has become a topic of concern from both theoretical and practical perspectives. In the specific context of executive pay regulation in Chinese state-owned enterprises, strategies to effectively motivate Chinese ...
Yong Jiang +3 more
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Institutions, Property Rights, and Growth [PDF]
This paper presents a growth model in which property rights are insecure and costly to enforce. Losses of property provide the impetus to establish institutions which seek to enforce property rights.
Paul Zak
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