The widespread consumer adoption of low-carbon technologies (LCTs) is a cornerstone of net zero targets worldwide, however LCTs may not be equally distributed across socioeconomic characteristics. Our paper contributes to the literature by exploring socioeconomic inequality in LCT adoption and...

This paper studies the global synchronicity of technology and its impact on the economy. We employ dynamic factor analysis to decompose patent data in different digital technologies for various countries into global and country-specific factors. Our findings confirm the existence of global and...

The purpose of this paper is to understand how the motives for a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) adoption and organizational fit interact with the design and sustainability of a BSC adoption. We follow up on 10 Danish organizations that were showcased as best-practice adopters 15 years ago and identify...

The objective of this study is to assess the short and long run effects of renewable and non-renewable resource rents on economic growth in Cameroon. Taking crude oil rents and forest resource rents as proxies for non-renewable and renewable resources abundance respectively for the period...

This paper examines both the desirability and feasibility of technology transfers in a setting where institutions governing the security of output or income are imperfect. Based on a guns-versus-butter model involving two countries (a technology leader and a technology laggard), our analysis...

No court recognizes the right to adopt a child. By contrast, we embrace family formation rights and protect choices about whether to marry, procreate, and rear biological children. These rights are needed because families play a key role in society and family formation is central to a happy and...

In an unprecedented global crisis, like the COVID-19 pandemic, when vertical global governance plays a relatively minor role, government leaders must obtain policy information cues from other governments’ behaviors horizontally. This study builds on the policy diffusion literature to examine...

This study employs a contingent valuation survey to elicit willingness-to-pay (WTP) from Canadian recreational anglers to fish on their preferred watersheds if managers of these watersheds choose to adopt novel environmental DNA (eDNA) toolkits. The survey gathered responses from 999 Canadian...

I analyse the role of geographical, cognitive, and social proximity in the decision to adopt organic farming in Sweden, using longitudinal data, including an experimental approach, and making use of the variation over time of farms’ exposure to early adopters in the neighbourhood. I find that...