Abstract China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched in 2013, is rapidly subsuming much
of China's political and economic involvement abroad. As a far‐reaching infrastructure …

This paper compiles a systematic review of research papers that identify the effect of
international trade and trade liberalization policies on socio-economic targets linked to the …

China's growing economic involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America has been
a source of major controversy. The official Chinese position maintains that the growth of …

Chinese firms operating in Africa are often accused of violating international labour
standards and not adhering with national labour laws. Considering China's tendency to …

Combining perspectives from institutional activism and signaling theory literatures, we
suggest that an activist sovereign wealth fund (SWF) can serve as an intermediary signaler …

This article presents a bibliometric analysis and a mapping of the intellectual and conceptual
structure of the research conducted on 'Compositional Data'(CoDa) in Social Sciences …

Under what conditions does the global economy serve as a means for the diffusion of labor
standards and practices? We anticipate variation among internationally engaged firms in …

Recent scholarship on transnational business governance has begun to examine public‐
private interactions and the active role of governments. We make two key contributions that …

Private governance programs are now an important source of regulation in global value
chains–particularly in context of North–South trade. But can these programs play a similar …

This paper investigates the heterogeneous, long, and short-run and causal relationship
between the size of the informal economy and three usual variables related to each of the …