The Bohai Economic Rim plays an important role in supporting China’s economic growth. For this research, we selected nine main ports in the region to study whether intra-port competition or corporatization would improve efficiency. Using a panel fixed effect model and stochastic frontier model, we found that the technical efficiency of selected ports is significantly influenced by the time of t...

A model of economic growth and environmental quality is presented in this paper, which then focuses on measuring the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality for China's four big economic regions. The inter-regional differences among the four areas are also compared. The research results show that the relationships between the three industrial waste emissions and economic ...

The international community has joined together to form a world trade system based on the rule of law. Although imperfect, the world trade system contains enforceable norms designed to facilitate international economic activity. Infectious diseases pose as great a threat to the well being of nations. Yet, global health governance remains weak or nonexistent. As The Lancet Infectious Diseases ha...

This paper develops an organizational approach to corporate governance and assesses the effectiveness of corporate governance and implications for policy. Most corporate governance research focuses on a universal link between corporate governance practices (e.g., board structure, shareholder activism) and performance outcomes, but neglects how interdependencies between the organization and dive...

BACKGROUND Global constitutionalism is a way of looking at the world, at global rules and how they are made, as if there was a global constitution, empowering global institutions to act as a global government, setting rules which bind all states and people. ANALYSIS This essay employs global constitutionalism to examine how and why global health governance, as currently structured, has strugg...

BACKGROUND Governance of a country may have widespread effects on the health of its population, yet little is known about the effect of governance on child mortality in a country that is undergoing urbanization, economic development, and disease control. METHODS We obtained indicators of six dimensions of governance (perceptions of voice and accountability, political stability and absence of ...

What law for transnational legal education? A cooperative view of an introductory course to transnational law and governance César Arjona, Joshua Anderson, François Meier & Sierra Robart To cite this article: César Arjona, Joshua Anderson, François Meier & Sierra Robart (2015) What law for transnational legal education? A cooperative view of an introductory course to transnational law and gover...

Theory and Practice of Corporate Governance explains how the real world of corporate governance works. It offers new definitions of governance and new conceptual models for investigating governance and corporate behaviour, based on both practical experience and academic investigation. In examining the historical development of corporate governance, it integrates issues of company law, regulator...

Abstract This article maps the development of Czech corporate law after 1989 against backdrop gradual change private and its paradigms as well considering especially influence use governance soft law. It describes some economic, political social reasons that slowed down or marginalized relevance OECD Corporate Governance Principles transition Czechoslovakia later Republic to democratic At same ...