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Scaling Sustainability: Regulation and Resilience in Managerial Responses to Climate Change
(British Journal of Management, 2018-04-15)
This paper introduces the special issue of the British Journal of Management on ‘Scaling
Sustainability: Regulation and Resilience inManagerial Responses to Climate Change’,
providing an overview of the key issues in ...
Tax compliance cost and international trade in Africa
(British Acccounting and Finance Association, 2019-04-01)
International trade in Africa could be one of the antidotes to the precarious poverty and economic deficiency in which the continent finds itself. An outward orientation towards international trade opens the continent to ...
Is the impact of social distancing on coronavirus growth rates effective across different settings? A non-parametric and local regression approach to test and compare the‘doubling rate
(2020-04-01)
Epidemiologists use mathematical models to predict epidemic trends, and these results are inherently uncertain when parameters are unknown or changing. In other contexts, such as climate, modellers use multi-model ensembles ...
The culpability of accounting practice in promoting bribery and corruption in developing countries
(Inderscience Online, 2017-01-24)
Bribery and corruption are increasing in the developing countries. It has been estimated that some $400 billion of bribe is paid to political elite in developing countries. Such huge amounts of money cannot be successfully ...
Personalisation of power, neoliberalism and the production of corruption
(Elsevier, 2015-01-09)
This paper utilises a political lens in considering the cause for the production of corruption and the role of political leadership. Specifically, the notion of personalisation of power as advocated by Slater (2003) is ...
Impact of central bank independence, transparency and institutional quality on foreign equity portfolio allocation: a cross-country analysis
(Elsevier, 2020-02-27)
In this study, we analyse the effects of central bank independence (CBI) and central bank transparency (CBT) and their interactions with institutional quality on foreign equity portfolio inflows. Employing a dataset from ...
The impact of State Ownership, Formal Institutions and Resource Seeking on Acquirers' Return of Chinese M&A
(Springer, 2015-02-04)
We examine the effects of state ownership, institutions and resource-seeking behavior on post-acquisition stock price returns of Chinese cross-border mergers and acquisitions over the period 1998–2008. Chinese acquiring ...
Examining the Determinants of Inward FDI: Evidence from Norway
(Elsevier, 2015-03-07)
This paper examines the impact of macroeconomic factors on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in Norway under the location-specific advantage. Using co-integrating regressions with Fully Modified OLS (FMOLS) and the ...
Towards Sustainable Development in the Arab Middle East and North Africa Region: A Longitudinal Analysis of Environmental Disclosure in Corporate Annual Reports
(Wiley, 2017-12-19)
This paper presents the first comprehensive analysis of corporate environmental disclosure (CED) in the Arab MENA region. Using a detailed research instrument containing 55 items, content analysis of the annual reports of ...