Considering the role of capital market governance in guiding corporate green transformation under the goal of environmental protection, this paper aims to empirically study
the impact of stock liquidity on corporate ESG based on the data of listed companies in China from 2009 to 2021. [...]
Migrant entrepreneurs operating in host-country markets face xenophobia, capital exclusion, and institutional discrimination that threaten basic business survival, yet this
context remains theoretically underspecified. Existing research frames CSR as an optional legitimacy tool in stable, developed-country settings, overlooking contexts [...]
This study investigates how large corporations rhetorically respond to social activism and how such responses are used to construct and manage corporate legitimacy. Using the
Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement as an empirical context, the study examines how corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication attempts to shape organizational [...]
Big data is promoted as a route to better environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, yet evidence on its benefits is mixed, suggesting its value depends on firm-level
conditions that remain unclear. Drawing on resource-based, absorptive-capacity and stakeholder theories, this study proposes corporate social responsibility (CSR) [...]
Despite leachate contamination being common around dumpsites, studies integrating spatial variation, soil-depth profiles, groundwater quality, and associated environmental
risks remain limited. This study assessed leachate, soil, and groundwater quality in the vicinity of a municipal solid-waste dumpsite in Jaipur, India, using spatial [...]
AbstractThis study investigates how China’s dual-track drug punishment system—comprising administrative and criminal sanctions—unintentionally incentivizes false or strategic
confessions. Drawing on 299 court cases involving detainees in compulsory detoxification centres between 2019 and 2021, we identify a recurring behavioural pattern: [...]
AbstractThis study explores how incarcerated, gang-affiliated youths in Sweden navigate questions of change, aspiration and desistance. Drawing on interviews with young men
and staff at secure youth institutions, the analysis foregrounds how internalized limiting beliefs—rooted in racialization, marginalization and stigma—shape what [...]