...Hau Trung Nguyen; Thuy T. Dang; Duc Nguyen Nguyen; Quang-Thai Truong Purpose This study examines whether and how having government connections is associated with small businesses' innovation. In addition, the authors attempt to explore the moderating impacts of country-level corruption and bank...

... countries from 1996 to 2020. Findings The empirical findings from the DKFE and system GMM estimators reveal that strong institutions significantly enhance gender inclusion. Moreover, by disaggregating institutional quality into various governance indicators, we show that besides corruption control...

...Giang Ngo Tinh Nguyen; Xianmin Liu Purpose This study explores the relationship between corruption and shadow economy (SE) by examining the potential links and interactions between these two phenomena to see whether it is a one-way or two-way relationship and a complementarity or substitution...

...Nicholas Addai Boamah; Francis Ofori-Yeboah; Kingsley Opoku Appiah Purpose The study investigates the effect of political instability and employee tenure security on the performance of firms in middle-income economies (MIEs) after controlling for the influence of corruption, international quality...

... on FDI inflows in countries with higher corruption levels and fewer land resources. Practical implications Overall, this research suggests an important policy implication that the shadow economy should be controlled more strictly since it harms the FDI inflows, especially greenfield investment...