Toward sustainability: ESG bridging socioemotional wealth and sustainable financial in family firms by ChangYi Zhu, Alexandra Simón Villar, Maria Jose Parada Balderrama

“…The socioemotional wealth of family businesses fosters long-term orientation, aligning with the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles essential for sustainable value creation. …”
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Public sector corruption in South Asia: focusing on institutional factors with a two-step fsQCA by Jinwon Han, Chanwahn Kim

“…Based on these findings, we recommend strengthening e-governance to streamline administrative processes, thereby reinforcing the corruption-reducing effects of parliamentarism, which may otherwise be distorted by factors such as excessive bureaucracy in the region. …”
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Cross-Border Cooperation and the European Administrative Space – Prospects from the Principle of Mutual Recognition by Joachim Beck

“…Representing at the same time a specific transnational pattern of the European Administrative Space (EAS), however, its practical functioning is still hindered by various factors amongst which the diverging national legal and administrative framework conditions of the participating actors represent the major obstacle with regards to the development of effective cross-border governance regimes. Based on the analysis of central challenges of practical cross-border governance, the article examines the question whether the application the principle of mutual recognition, initially developed for the free movement of goods in the non-harmonized area, could provide a basis for substantial improvement in European cross-border cooperation. …”
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Contentious Territorial Alliances: Coalition Politics and Struggles over Urban Development in Pikine, Senegal by Nicole C. List

“…Through analysis of two spatially distinct –albeit interlinked– episodes of conflict over the development of middle-class and elite housing projects on Pikine farmland, I argue that various public and private actors –including farmers, traditional authorities, housing developers, and local/central government officials– are breaking with older forms of urban governance and forming what I call “territorial alliances” to stake land claims and advance urban development projects. …”
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The Enduring Conflict in Somalia: Analyzing the Dynamics of Instability and the Path to Sustainable Peace by Zoia Malik

“…Achieving lasting stability requires addressing both direct violence and structural inequalities to foster national unity and governance reform. …”
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State policy for managing seismic territories in Kazakhstan by Kangalakova Dana, Satpayeva Zaira, Kangalakov Kanat

“…The purpose of the study is to study the chronology of the earthquake in the territory of Kazakhstan and its consequences, as well as to identify the features of the state governance system for seismic activity in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. …”
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Understanding Ambiguity in Knowledge, Value and Institutional Structure: A Case Study of Chinese Open Network Community by Yao Jin

“…Analyzing the structural stain from the dimension of knowledge, value, and institutional structure in the network community, multifarious ambiguity is found in Chinese network governance. A representative survey object is selected to understand Chinese network governance after COVID 2019. …”
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Untapping the potential of Indigenous water jurisdiction: perspectives from Whanganui and Aotearoa New Zealand by Elizabeth Macpherson, Hayden Turoa

“…Still, legal and policy frameworks routinely include only tokenistic acknowledgements of Indigenous water ‘values’, while ongoing injustices related to the allocation and governance of water resources remain unresolved. Those concerned about the recognition of Indigenous water rights and relationships often point to the case of Aotearoa New Zealand, and specifically the Treaty of Waitangi settlement legislation recognising the Whanganui River as a ‘legal person’, as a replicable model for improved water governance and Indigenous water rights. …”
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Democratising the interface research-policymaking in landscape planning: experiences in Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy) by Enrico Michelutti

“…., recognition of community-based initiatives, “public governance” of landscape interventions, etc.). Depending on contextual conditions, different political agendas and legal frameworks shape the interplay between knowledge production mechanisms and practices on landscape. …”
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Can Democracy Survive AI? by Gina Neff

“…This essay examines the fundamental tension between artificial intelligence technologies and democratic governance, arguing that AI’s inherent tendencies toward centralization and control pose significant challenges to democratic societies. …”
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The Conflict in Mali: Causes, Actors, and Challenges by Wardah Shahid

“…Characterized by ethnic diversity, Mali has been plagued by poor governance, armed insurgencies, religious extremism, and climate hazards, ranking 154th in the 2024 Global Peace Index. …”
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Sujeitos políticos da economia solidária e comunitária na Bolívia: tendências e modelos do setor camponês-indígena by Isabelle Hillenkamp

“…At a first level, the article argues that these two organizational models are based on different modes of governance of the commons in rural communities, focused on mere family reproduction associated with local governance through agrarian unions in the first case and the voluntary association of producers in the same sector of activity in the second case. …”
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Trecking the historical concerns for effi ciency and eff ectiveness in the study and practice of Public Administration by BC, Basheka, Dominique, Uwizeyimana

“…ere are therefore a range of ideologies and benchmarks that have been propounded that once followed could promote e ciency and e ectiveness of government.…”
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The effect of R&D capitalization on revenue-expense matching: Focusing on the bio-pharmaceutical industries in South Korea by Dongjoon Choi, Inkyung Yoon, Hansol Lee

“…The study aims to investigate the effect of research and development (R&D) capitalization on revenue-expense matching in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, with particular attention to the moderating role of corporate governance and the influence of regulatory intervention. …”
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The anti-politics of food in South Africa: Transformation, accountability and the nutrition policy subsystem by Busiso Helard Moyo, Anne Marie Thow, Florian Kroll, Scott Drimie

“…The concept of nutrition governance remains poorly defined and applied in different ways and usually based on a relatively narrow interpretation – therefore limiting policy coherence and coordination. …”
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Social Aspects of Democratic Safeguards in Privacy Rights: A Qualitative Study of the European Union and China by Polonca Kovač, Grega Rudolf

“…Originality/Value: The paper bridges the gap created by the differences in the understanding of privacy and public governance in the field in the EU and China based on cultural differences. …”
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Impacts of Trade Unions on Employees' Welfare in UNATU, Kabale District. by Cyomperwe, Justinah

“…The study specifically sought to establish the extent to which governance and leadership structures affect the performance of trade unions. …”
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Review of the theoretical underpinnings in the creative tourism research field by Rui Miguel Ferreira Carvalho, Carlos Manuel Martins da Costa, Ana Maria Alves Pedro Ferreira

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Institutes for the new model of economic growth regional management development (territories of advanced development, territories of advanced social and economic development) by N. S. Stepanov

“…The instrument of this regulation is the functioning of institutions for the development of regional governance, which provide favorable conditions for doing business on special preferential terms. …”
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The methodology genesis of system-dynamic modeling and the prospects of its application to solve the corporate change management’s digitalization problems by D. A. Sokolov

“…Variants of methodology development based on the synthesis of classical approaches with advanced corporate governance practices and current works of foreign, Russian researchers are proposed. …”
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