In this article, we investigate how institutional investors help mitigate business-related risks in a corporate environment. Using large sample of employment disputes, litigations, and court cases, find that play significant role reducing litigation. We observe firms with larger shares ownership have lower incidence lawsuits long-term are more effective at decreasing employee mistreatment. Our ...

While patents do have many advantages, their disadvantages include requiring disclosure of technical information and imposing the burden of patenting and litigation costs. In this study, we investigate the relationship between a firm’s negative perception on patents, technology management strategies, and subsequent performance. For this purpose, we use a categorical canonical correlation analys...

This essay will explore the idea that in the wake of the Constitutional Court’’s decision in Mazibuko v City of Johannesburg,1 activists who are committed to dismantling persistent racial and class inequality should weigh carefully the costs and benefits of using rights-based litigation as a strategy to advance their interests. In putting forward that general idea, I want to make two central po...

Small value disputes in the Republic of Serbia represent a great burden on efficient working civil courts. Based setting different expectations model, economic analysis small claims shows tendency to initiate frivolous litigation, large disproportion between litigation costs and claim, uneconomical excessive incentives for too established high threshold value. The paper analyses effects planned...

One of the central problems in migration measurement arises as a consequence of the different sources of migration data. Most information regarding migration is obtained from population censuses or population registers that report migration data for a given time interval. Another source of migration data is the sample survey which may be designed to provide information about both migrants and...