The ?comply or explain? mechanism, first employed in the UK, combines voluntary compliance with corporate governance codes and a legal obligation (either by law, regulation or listing rule) to declare compliance with, or, as the case may be, to explain deviations from a code. With the adoption...

Examining corporate governance as a subject of integrity stimulates a shift of perspective that allows calling into question the premises that have so far dominated the corporate governance debate. Integrity can represent the well-functioning of the corporation, but also a virtuous form of human...

Poverty, inequality and social exclusion are closely tied to personal mobility and the accessibility of goods and services. Evidence of the economic role of transport in promoting better living standards and greater wellbeing can be seen in the effects of both overall public investment in...

The notion of development influences and is influenced by all aspects of human life. Social science is but one representational option among many for conveying the myriad ways in which development is conceived, encountered, experienced, justified, courted, and/or resisted by different groups at...

Conserving forests to provide ecosystem services and biodiversity will be a key environmental challenge as society strives to adapt to climate change. The ecosystem services and biodiversity that forests provide will be influenced by the behaviors of numerous individual private landowners as...

This paper (i) explains the motivation for articulating the benefits of accessibility; (ii) provides a narrative basis for articulating how accessibility affects economic and social life; and (iii) moves towards a framework for quantifying the benefits of accessibility. In examining laws,...

Poverty, inequality and social exclusion are closely tied to personal mobility and the accessibility of goods and services. Evidence of the economic role of transport in promoting better living standards and greater wellbeing can be seen in the effects of both overall public investment in...

This article introduces and explores issues regarding the question of what constitute valid forms of development knowledge, focusing in particular on the relationship between fictional writing on development and more formal academic and policy-oriented representations of development issues. We...

The first CVO International Working Paper makes a set of general observations about international third sector research and argues that there are currently two ‘parallel universes’ of literature. The first of these is work which focuses on the ‘North’ (on what are often termed...