.... In addition, the leverage ratio, return on assets, company’s size and age emerge as important determinants of CSR disclosures; nevertheless, the company’s size and age are statistically not significant. These significant findings corroborate the recent concern with CG in developing countries that brings...

... Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Corporate governance Developing countries Decoupling Rationality and traditionalism Sri Lankan banks The Westernised model of governance imposed by policy makers on stock-exchange-listed companies may...

.... In 2007, there were supposed controls on developed country businesses’ ability to send old ships to the beaches of Asia. The Basil Convention on the export of toxic waste was cited by organizations like Greenpeace as being applicable. However, ship owners and breakers argued that when sold, these were...

... in Africa, a number of commentators have identified several characteristics as common: Developing countries Sub Saharan Africa Foreign direct investment policy Australia-China relations Triangular cooperation From 2009 to 2012, China’s direct investment in Africa increased from US$1.44...

... that Africa is underdeveloped because of Africans’ incapacities (Jeune Afrique, 2012). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 China Developing countries Sub-Saharan Africa African industrialization Intra-African trade Sino-African cooperation The past decade has seen a rise...

... 2012 Critical perspectives Fair trade Fairtrade International Poverty Inequality Global economy Developing countries It is hardly surprising that for over a decade now, the fair trade movement and its initiatives have been attracting the attention of consumers, media and academics...

..., “may be a diversion” (Kemp, 2001 , pp. v‐vii) 6 . Barkemeyer (2009 , p. 278) speaks of a “mismatch between the underlying CSR mainstream theory and the policy environment of developing countries” (see also Newell, 2005 , p. 556). Particularly pernicious are duress situations without appropriate...

...Hugo Radice © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 --> Transnational companies Developing countries Transnational Corporations and Development Policy: Critical Perspectives Hugo Radice POLIS, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK About the reviewer Hugo...

...Belay Seyoum; Terrell G. Manyak Purpose This paper aims to examine the role of public and private transparency in attracting inward foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to developing countries. Design/methodology/approach The study tests the hypothesis that developing countries with low...

... Malaysia Developing countries Organizational development This paper focuses attention to the forms of knowledge and power that were put into effect in Malaysia as part of the nation's bid to transition towards a more market‐oriented economy. Part of an institutional ethnography (Smith, 1987, 1990...

..., China, India, Jordan, Malaysia, Poland, and the UK. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Management theory Developing countries Historical periods Economic history It is perhaps a sign of changing times that postcolonial theory has begun to gather momentum even in a somewhat...

... engagement with an industry which is of key economic importance to developing economies like those of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, but is attacked as immoral and dangerous by developed country NGOs. The author considers the framework of (or lack of) international governance which enables its continuance...

...; and the resulting patterns of cultural and social capital of Argentine management scholars. Concludes that that this situation might not be unique to Argentina, and that the hegemonic position of popular management discourse in developing countries is useful for those interest groups who benefit from managerialism...