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2025
Andre Dumas Tsambou, Thierno Malick D...
Firm Participation in Global Value Chains in Francophone Africa: Can A...
Despite the growing evidence on the importance of African countries’ participation in global value chains (GVCs), relatively little is known about the role of inno...
2025
Maria-Therese Gustafsson, Almut Schil...
The politics of supply chain regulations: Towards foreign corporate ac...
In recent years, binding regulations in the “home states” of corporations have emerged mainly in the Global North with the aim of holding corporations accountabl...
2025
Maria-Therese Gustafsson, Almut Schil...
Foreign corporate accountability: The contested institutionalization o...
In the recent past, European states have adopted mandatory due diligence (MDD) laws for holding companies accountable for the environmental and human rights impacts ...
2025
Benedetta Cotta, Johanna Coenen, Ed...
Environmental governance in globally telecoupled systems: Mapping the ...
Environmental governance is increasingly challenged by global flows, which connect distant places through trade, investment and movement of people. To date, research...
2025
Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Andrea Lens...
Hardening foreign corporate accountability through mandatory due dilig...
The negative externalities of global commodity chains and existing governance gaps have received wide scholarly attention. Indeed, many sectors including forest-risk...
2025
Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Andrea Len...
Contextualizing certification and auditing: Soy certification and acce...
The massive expansion of soy production in Brazil has contributed to a loss of access for local communities to land and water, particularly in highly dynamic frontie...
2025
Niklas Bergmann, Patrick Velte, Ignac...
Female Directors, Family Firms, Climate Talk and Climate Walk: Europea...
Growing attention is attributed to symbolic and substantive climate efforts, labelled as climate talk and walk. Focusing on the European capital market, we study the...
2025
Patrick Velte
Female chief financial officers (CFOs) and environmental decoupling. T...
This study analyses the link between chief financial officer (CFO) gender and environmental decoupling. Moreover, the moderator effect of sustainability board commit...
2025
Alexander Hofer, Ewald Aschauer, Patr...
Sustainability-oriented targets in executive compensation – symbolic...
This study aims to analyse the motivations and underlying assumptions of decision makers driving the adoption of sustainability-oriented targets in executive compens...
2025
Shingie Chisoro
The Role of Industry Associations in Export Performance: Comparative C...
South Africa’s citrus and wine industries have achieved relative success in global markets to become the country’s leading agri-food exports. However, the two in...
