Controlling Shareholders’ Equity Pledge and Listed Companies’ Stock Repurchase by Zhaolin Wang

“…Further research shows that the positive influence of equity pledge on stock repurchase is more significant under a good information environment and good corporate governance. However, the earnings management behavior of listed companies has no significant influence on the positive influence of equity pledge on stock repurchase.…”
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Exploring the Adoption of Digital Transformation in Supreme Audit Institutions: A Comprehensive Literature Review by Fatiha NOUAJE, Lotfi BENAZZOU

“…Assessing public management, controlling public finances and evaluating public policies are increasingly becoming government priorities. In this context, auditing is used to provide assurance on good governance. …”
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Invitation à la transparence : le site web sénégalais « vos démarches administratives » by Jocelyn Pierre

“…Since the project began, it combines the aims related to Internet development in Senegal and objectives linked to “good governance”. Through the story of the genesis and implementation of this project, the article tries to show objective of state reform and a technical means (Web) to get there. …”
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International migration movements by Gérard-François Dumont

“…However, the media tends to focus on a small minority of these movements, those which arise from exoduses linked to international wars or to civil wars often fanned – voluntarily or involuntarily – by external powers, and those which take place in non-legal forms, the main cause of which is most often poor governance. Beyond that, it is important to take a complete and fair look at all international migration in daily life. …”
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Public Agency Capabilities and Transformational Challenges of the 21st Century by Richard Sturn

“…Under transformational challenges, the agency capacity of public sector is under stress due to a combination of two specific factors: (a) new coordination problems and social dilemmas, inter alia requiring changing degrees of centralisation of collective agency in a world of polycentric governance and (b) shifting rent potentials, which pre-empt public agency by multiplying situations where private agents have the means and the incentives to invest in rentenhancing and distortive rule setting (shadow politics). …”
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Open innovation for property management in emergency and post-emergency pandemic regime by Massimo Lauria, Maria Azzalin

“…It is part of R&D program developed by BIG Srl – Academic spin-off of ‘Mediterranea’ of Reggio Calabria – aimed at innovative governance of real estate assets, that welcomes the challenge of managing buildings in an emergency and post-emergency regime from Covid-19. …”
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Investissements ou accaparements fonciers en Afrique ? Les visions des paysans et de la société civile au Mali by Amandine Adamczewski, Jean-Yves Jamin, Benoît Lallau, Jean-Philippe Tonneau

“…In the irrigated area of the Office du Niger, the government provisionally attributed nearly 600 000 ha to public and private, foreign and domestic, investors. …”
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ESTIMATION OF FINANCIAL STABILITY OF AGRARIAN ENTERPRISES IN UKRAINE by Nadia Davidenko, Natalia Wasilewska

“…According to the research, the main principles for maintaining financial sustainability are: responsiveness to internal and external changes; governance systems; risk management; analysis of financial ratios; real assessment of the financial solvency of the enterprise; integration with the overall management system; orientation towards achieving the strategic goals of the enterprise; use of qualitative methods to inform financial decisions in the face of uncertainty and risk.…”
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Région et génération : le Sud algérien et les enjeux de la visibilisation du politique by Ratiba Hadj-Moussa

“…It is only after a governance cycle that has lasted over 50 years that a new generation begins to demand change. …”
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Sustainability reporting and sustainable development goals: bibliometric analysis by Diamantina Amélia Parckings Tauro Cumbana, José Biléu Ventura

“…There are three areas of focus: the SR, sustainable development and corporate sustainability; performance, corporate social responsibility and governance; and sustainability, GRI and accountability. …”
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Les communs urbains à l’épreuve du terrain : le cas des lieux de fabrication numérique by Flavie Ferchaud

“…Since the notion of urban commons is originally defined as being shared and open spaces, managed by a community within specific governance, the study of these types of places in this paper brings new aspects to light. …”
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Caractérisation interrégionale des paysages de la Belgique by Veerle Van Eetvelde, Marc Antrop

“…Belgium became gradually a federal state which made it difficult to get overall views on matters that became by regional governance such as spatial planning and heritage and landscape management. …”
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Budgets participatifs : S’approprier la dialectique de la gouvernance participative locale by Manuel Goehrs

“…A multiplicity of stakeholders take part in the promotion of citizen participation, the “new paradigm” for good governance: development organisations, the State, local authorities and the population. …”
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Collective energy actions to pursue a just transition. by Martina Massari, Saveria Olga Murielle Boulanger, Danila Longo

“…This paper aims to explore the relationship between just transition and energy citizenship in Southern European collective energy actions, showcasing their association and varied impacts based on agency dynamics, contextual factors, and governance models. It also proposes new tools and analytical lenses to assess and govern place-based collective energy actions, complementing policy-making efforts. …”
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Does Black theology have a role to play in the democratic South Africa? by R. T. H. Dolamo

“…Yet two decades into our democracy, poverty, racism, gender injustice, patriarchy, xenophobia, bad governance, environmental degradation, and so on need to be prophetically addressed with equal seriousness and simultaneously, for none of these issues can be left for some time in the future. …”
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Socialiser à la biodiversité à travers la néo-libéralisation de la PAC ? by Blandine Mesnel

“…One eventually observes a dual process of socialization: biodiversity instruments socialize farmers to neo-liberal governance as much as they socialize them to biodiversity protection.…”
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APPLICATION OF ESG-FACTORS IN INVESTMENT CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS by T. Yu. Shemyakina

“…The article considers the concept of responsible investment, the practice of applying ESG factors (ESG – Environmental, Social and Governance) in the process of making strategic decisions. …”
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On Using Self-Report Studies to Analyze Language Models by Matúš Pikuliak

“…I think that this approach can easily lead to false results, which can be quite dangerous considering the current discussions on AI safety, governance, and regulation. To illustrate my point, I will delve deeper into several papers that employ self-report methodologies and I will try to highlight some of their weaknesses. …”
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Bridging gaps: Integrating gender into climate-responsive Disaster Risk Management by Virginia Murray

“…Besides, it also appears crucial to integrate the active participation and empowerment of women in disaster risk governance to ensure women have a say in the solutions that are designed for them.…”
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EASTERN PARTNERSHIP: A NEW STAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN UNION RELATIONS WITH THE POST-SOVIET COUNTRIES by L. Chuvakhina

“…Cooperation in the framework of the Eastern Partnership is focused on such priority areas as economic development, strengthening governance institutions, development of relations in the field of energy, expansion of contacts between people. …”
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