For over two centuries Americans have debated whether judges should be elected or appointed. While the explicitly framed tension has been about the relative importance of judicial independence and judicial accountability in a democracy, the underlying issue has been about which structure better...

This chapter mainly focuses on the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) standards. Companies generally voluntarily adopt those in order to carry a "social" license to operate, as today it is the way to underline their good governance credentials. In transboundary trade...

In this response paper, we will analyse what has been put forth in the readings named: a) State Sovereignty and the Legitimacy of the WTO by Joshua Meltzer ; and b) Reconstruing WTO Legitimacy Debates by Michael Fakhri . These two readings are mainly focussed on the legitimacy of the World Trade...

In the current paper, we investigate the impasse over the two forms of Internet governance on trans-national governance issues of the Internet, i.e., multilateral vs. multi-stakeholder. Considering the long controversy over the more appropriate governance form, in this research work, we intend...

Adopting legitimacy proactive approach, this paper examines and evaluates relationship between levels of environmental performance (measured by environmental awards) and the quality of specific voluntary environmental disclosure using a sample of UK FTSE 100 companies. Companies in the sample...

Globalization increased calls for corporations to use firms' resources to alleviate a wide variety of social problems taking into consideration that existing governments are unable or unwilling to deal with such problems. In this context, corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the banking...

This contribution addresses the input legitimacy of the British EU membership referendum of June 2016. It considers who was given a vote in the first place, and whether those given a vote could make a reasonable choice in light of the campaign. More precisely, it assesses the following four...

We examine how organizational ecology and the strategic choice perspective can be combined to provide more contextualized insights into how multinational corporations (MNCs) can better counter environmental pressures with evolving subnational FDI legitimacy and improve the survival likelihood of...