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Onna Malou van den Broek and more · 20 March 2020

Financial volatility and public scrutiny as institutional determinants of financial industry firms’ CSR

Onna van den Broek & Adam William Chalmers “The 2019 David P. Baron Award has been awarded to Adam William Chalmers and Onna Malou van den Broek for their article “Financial volatility and public scrutiny as institutional determinants of financial industry firms’ CSR” (Volume 21, Issue 2)” The 2007 global financial crisis substantially changed the nature of the relationship between financial industry firms and society.…

Tara Van Ho · 21 November 2019

Academics at the Forum: Yes, it Still Matters; No, it’s Not Any Better, Part 1

I was asked by someone associated with the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights’ organization if I would again do my count of academics and women academics because they thought it was interesting and important.…

Douglass Cassel · 9 September 2019

Ecuador’s Revised Draft Treaty: Getting Down to Business

In the first of a two-part article, Doug Cassel raises certain arguments circling around the significant improvements made in the new draft.…

Sebastian Smart · 14 August 2019

Draft Treaty on business and human rights: a digital environment perspective

On July 16, 2019, the UN open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights (the “Working Group”) published a revised draft of a binding treaty on business and human rights.…

Sekar Banjaran Aji · 2 August 2019

Developing a National Action Plan on a Polycentric Governance System: Case of Indonesia

Indonesia is the only country in Southeast Asia to be a member of the G20 and, in the first quarter of 2019, was recorded as having the third-largest economic growth among the G20 countries, which was 5.07 percent.…

Ann-Kristin Bergquist · 5 June 2019

Why Are We Running Out of Time? A Business History Perspective on the Environmental Crisis

This special issue in Business History Review on Business and the Environment seeks to promote new approaches in business history designed to explore of the role of business in both creating and addressing the mounting environmental crisis that has become apparent over the last half century.

Ilgaz Arikan · 12 December 2018

Business and Politics: A novel approach to studying international business alliances

We presented a novel approach to studying international business alliances by initiating a new conversation in an interdisciplinary context: political science, international relations and management.…

BHR Editors · 18 May 2018

Business History Review Editors’ Pick Article Collection

The Editors of Business History Review, Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones, have selected 10 papers for a new Editors’ Pick Article Collection.…

Sean Vanatta · 21 August 2017

Why your US credit card bills come from Sioux Falls; a brief history of US consumer finance

Sean Vanatta’s article Citibank, Credit Cards, and the Local Politics of National Consumer Finance, 1968–1991, published in Business History Review, is the winner of the 2016 Henrietta Larson Article Award.…

Prosper Maguchu · 18 August 2017

No Longer Business as Usual: Citizens’ emerging role in enforcing the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Zimbabwe

According to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) the responsibility to respect human rights requires that business enterprises: “Avoid causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts through their own activities, and address such impacts when they occur.”…

Teresa da Silva Lopes · 4 July 2017

Using third-party endorsements to build a brand’s reputation: The case of British chocolate

This blog post is based on the author’s paper Building Reputation through Third-Party Endorsement: Fair Trade in British Chocolate, published in Business History Review.…

Angus Burgin · 10 May 2017

New Review Essay on The Cambridge History of Capitalism

This is the abstract for a new Review Essay published in Business History Review by Angus Burgin entitled ‘Larry Neal and Jeffrey G.…

Michael Santoro · 24 October 2016

The Business School Case for Business and Human Rights: A Conscientious Capitalism Approach

If there is one thing I have learned about teaching business and human rights for 20 years--most recently at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley, California--and before that as a case writer at Harvard Business School, it is the importance of making the business case for human rights.

Anita Ramasastry · 21 January 2016

Business and Human Rights in the American legal academy

Until recently, the U.S. legal academy has taken a relatively narrow approach to to business and human rights scholarship...

Brian C.H. Fong · 16 June 2015

The 2014 China Quarterly Gordon White Prize Winner: Dr Brian C. H. Fong

The China Quarterly is pleased to award the 2014 Gordon White Prize to Brian C.H. Fong for his article “The Partnership between the Chinese Government and Hong Kong’s Capitalist Class: Implications for HKSAR Governance, 1997–2012” (No.…

Florian Wettstein · 8 June 2015

Corporate Responsibility: All Eyes on Human Rights

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is losing steam. Many – perhaps too many? – corporations have embraced it, but too often they seem to look at it merely as a new source for growth and profits or as an act of charity, rather than as a philosophy that transforms the way they do business.…

More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.

Adrian S.Z. Chase · 28 March 2024

Ancient Maya Inequality – Compact Section

How unequal were ancient Maya societies and what lessons can we learn from them about our own unequal world? Modern inequality metrics often focus on monetary wealth and financial statements, but other methods exist and inequality can manifest itself in multiple forms.…

Tamer Zaki · 10 April 2024

JFM Rapids Q&A with Tamer Zaki

Tamer Zaki (Johns Hopkins University) has recently joined the Journal of Fluid Mechanics Editorial Board for JFM Rapids. To celebrate, Tamer participated in a Q&A with the Journal.

In 2012, a Conservative-led coalition implemented austerity measures to restore the UK’s finances. The measures aimed to address the increase in public spending that had occurred during the Great Recession and included significant cuts to public services in the form of the 2012 Welfare Reform Act.…

Journal of Public Policy · 25 July 2023

On time or with a delay? Transposition of EU directives in the Czech Republic in relation to subsidiarity check

National parliaments had been for long time losers of European integration with only very limited competences of information on new EU initiatives and of rubber-stamping transposition law compared to the national governments, which often negotiate EU law at the supranational level and propose its transposition acts at the national level.…

Anna P. Judson · 4 July 2023

Experimenting with tablet-making

At the end of the Greek Bronze Age, between c.1400-1200 BCE, the Mycenaean palaces of Crete and mainland Greece used small clay tablets to keep their accounting documents.

Journal of Public Policy · 19 October 2023

Border clashes: the distributive politics of professional liberalisation in Greece

As Douwe Truijens and Marcel Hanegraaff have recently remarked (Truijens and Hanegraaff 2023), interest groups can play a very large role at the implementation stage of the policy cycle, potentially even reversing decisions made earlier in the cycle.…

Debra L. Martin and more · 31 January 2023

Academic publishing in 2023: what’s front of mind for archaeologists?

With 2023 on the horizon, and the landscape of academic publishing in flux, Cambridge University Press spoke to the Editors of the SAA’s journals to find out what topics and questions are currently front of mind – for archaeologists, researchers and publishers alike.…

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