The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting childbearing and family processes around the globe. First studies have documented changes in couples’ fertility plans and work division within the household, or predict fertility declines in high-income countries based on now-casting methods. Yet, the...

How important is a relationship with a bank to a firm’s performance and survival? If firms can easily switch among different sources of credit supply, then the loss of any one source may have little implication for the firms that have borrowed from that source. However, to the extent that...

The International Studying Leadership Conference (ISLC) provides a forum for scholars and practitioners from around the world to share insights on the nature, processes and outcomes of leadership in contemporary organisations and society. Conference Theme: Reboot or reset? The conference is...

The theme for EIBA 2021 is ‘Firms, Innovation and Location: Reshaping International Business for Sustainable Development’. Conference Tracks: 1. International Business and the 2030 Agenda [conference theme track]; 2. Economic Geography and International Business; 3. Innovation and Knowledge...

We encourage submissions on any aspect of the pandemic including, for example, measuring its effects and the social and economic disruptions that it has and will create: discrimination and a possible sharpening of inequities, and the differential vulnerability or resilience of specific groups...

The seminar introduces the participants to the methods, techniques and theories commonly used in their research area. It also offers possibilities for young researchers to get in contact with their peers, to explore new avenues of thinking, to learn collectively and to exchange ideas in a very...

The conference aims to create a forum for discussion on issues related to the recent patterns of firms’ activity, the organization of production and financing decision, as well as their determinants, consequences and implications for policymaking. This year’s issue of the conference...

The third Annual Conference of the Private Sector Development Research Network (PSDRN) offers an opportunity to bring together staff of Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), think-tanks, and donor agencies involved in private sector development with academics who study private firms and...

In the spirit of the mid-year workshop, we would like to continue the conversations and insights on the theme of ‘Calculative silences and the agency of business ethics scholars’ for the 11th annual ABEN conference which will be in virtual mode (online). For inspiration, the broad themes...

Topics: - Role of government regulation, trade and investment agreements for sustainability; - Impact of GVC participation on sustainability, such as distributional aspects, environmental performance, or labour conditions; - Sustainability in non GVC firms or upstream suppliers (e.g., informal...