The article addresses a gap in research on management control systems, particularly the long-term impact of self-assessment on management effectiveness. While most studies focus on single-period analyses, this research emphasizes the importance of multi-year perspectives and causal...

This paper makes the case for an OECD-wide monitoring framework of the quality of children's local environments to aid national and local policy makers in building child-friendly neighbourhoods, and especially in attenuating geographical disparities and providing additional support to children...

he authors use county-level data to test whether an array of socioeconomic, demographic, political and religious variables explain COVID-19 vaccination rates. Results presented here build upon previous investigations of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in different contexts and are largely consistent...

This study assesses the portfolio concentration of socially responsible investment (SRI) pension funds, which may be subject to a potentially limited asset universe and have a higher concentration and lower performance than conventional funds. Nonetheless, in contrast to previous studies on SRI...