In the 21st Century, distinctions and boundaries between global health, international politics, and the broader interests of the global community are harder to define and enforce than ever before. As a result, global health workers, leaders, and institutions face pressing questions around the nature and extent of their involvement with non-health endeavors, including international conflict reso...

This study empirically investigates the relationship between the timeliness of the financial reporting and the corporate governance proxies for companies listed on the Tunisian stock exchange during 2009.It investigates the role of the corporate governance mechanisms on the timeliness of corporate financial reporting besides; it investigates the relationship between the company size, leverage, ...

The main purpose of this research is to investigate the impacts of corporate governance on credit risk in the Iranian banking industry. The sample consists of 20 banks listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during 2011-2016 and the statistical method is panel data. In this research, credit risk and corporate governance are the dependent and independent variables, respectively. The meta-synthesis m...

1 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 Departments of Medical Humanities and Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, 3 James A. Baker III Inst...

Water diplomacy is gaining increasing attention among both researchers and policy-makers. The interest understandable, given that the concept brings together themes such as shifting geopolitics, new types of water scarcity. Yet, there no common definition for actual actions typically vary across multiple tracks scales. In this article, we seek to contribute practice by introducing a step-wise D...

What is the role of non-state actors in international politics labour migration Gulf Cooperation Council countries? This paper employs a ‘migration diplomacy’ framework order to examine regional mobility while interrogating assumed centrality state this process. It focuses on into United Arab Emirates and draws range primary sources identify four types that seek maximise their interests within ...

Abstract This article applies a science diplomacy lens to examine Sweden’s 1967–1968 intervention in the United Nations—the so-called “Swedish initiative”—that led seminal 1972 UN Conference on Human Environment. The three classic typologies—science diplomacy, for and diplomacy—are employed structure an analysis of how Swedish diplomats skillfully leveraged diplomatic objectives, first convinci...

This paper investigates the variation in contagion effect of corporate scandals on peers firms with different corporate governance quality. We find that better corporate governance reduces investors’ uncertainty about a firm’s fundamental value and alleviates the contagion effect of scandals. Specifically, the empirical results show that external governance, ownership structure and external aud...

The recognised critical importance of corporate governance, and the attention that it is paid today, can be ascribed to several factors: sensational financial scandals (and the repercussions they have had for securities and financial markets), the exponential development of stock option policies, the information asymmetry that can be noted in practically every company, The different requests fo...