Market-oriented theorizing fails to capture the reality of government intervention in the global economy. Trade and investment measures by governments around the globe, designed to protect strategic industries and maintain a security of supply in the wake of a return to strategic competition,...

Taxation is often described as the material expression of the social contract. However, this conceptualization largely reflects the Anglo-European experience and provides limited explanatory power for analysing taxation in African states, which did not experience the type of state-society...

This study investigates the impact of government-business relationships on corporate involvement in the People's Republic of China's poverty alleviation campaign. Using data on Chinese-listed firms from 2017 to 2020, we find that closer government-business relationships, as measured by a...