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The Political Economy of the Malaysian Subnational Governments’ Fiscal Behavior
International Journal of Management Studies, 2009 This article attempts to shed light on the political economy of the Malaysian state governments’ budgetary behaviour by tailoring hypotheses drawn from recent theoretical literature to the Malaysian institutional context and testing them empirically. The
Ahmad Zafarullah Abdul Jalil
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability certifications are increasingly used as strategic tools to advance accountability for environmental sustainability. This study addresses the challenge of fragmented national certification standards by proposing and applying a replicable method to assess the structural robustness and convergence of industry‐specific ...
Teresa Turzo +3 more
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Subnational taxation in developing countries : a review of the literature [PDF]
This paper reviews the literature on tax assignment in decentralized countries. Ideally, own-source revenues should be sufficient to enable at least the richest subnational governments to finance from their own resources all locally-provided services ...
Bird, Richard M.
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Institutionalizing Investor-State Dispute Prevention in China
AJIL UnboundChina's 2019 Foreign Investment Law establishes a formal mechanism to handle complaints by foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs)—i.e., Chinese enterprises that are wholly or partly foreign-owned.
Zhenyu Xiao
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the structural and distributional factors that influence environmental performance in 27 European Union (EU) countries from 2010 to 2021, focusing especially on circular economy (CE) measures and the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI)‐based analytical tools.
Cosimo Magazzino +3 more
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Laws for fiscal responsibility for subnational discipline : international experience [PDF]
Fiscal responsibility laws are institutions with which multiple governments in the same economy -- national and subnational --can commit to help avoid irresponsible fiscal behavior that could have short-term advantages to one of them but that would be ...
Liu, Lili, Webb, Steven B.
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) reflects a paradox for corporate sustainability: it provides tools for genuine socio‐economic improvement and enables greenwashing at scale. This study examines this duality in emerging Asian markets, where rapid AI adoption coincides with evolving regulatory regimes.
Ashutosh Yadav, Simplice A. Asongu
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Decentralization, Subnational Governments' Behaviour and Macroeconomic Instability: The Case of Malaysia [PDF]
In the last two decades there has been a worldwide interest in decentralization of government in all parts of the world. There are two main objectives that we tried to achieve through this study.
Abdul Jalil, Ahmad Zafarullah
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Understanding urban–rural disparities in digital government maturity: a governance perspective
Frontiers in Political ScienceThe purpose of this study is to examine how differences in governance capacity shape urban–rural disparities in digital government maturity at the subnational level.
Yayuk Astuti +3 more
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Norteamérica, 2016 Many scholars argue that the rules, mechanisms and bodies established under the North American Free Trade Agreement’s Chapter 11 for the settlement of disputes on foreign direct investment have undermined the policymaking capacities of national and ...
Iván Farías Pelcastre
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