Attention is increasingly being focused on leaking, whistleblowing and associated compliance and incentives questions. The authors outline the differences between leaking and whistleblowing, notably on protection of the disclosers. They review provisions of international conventions on human...

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...

The ‘Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights’ (Principles) that provide guidance for the implementation of the United Nations’ ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ framework (Framework) will probably succeed in making human rights matters more customary in corporate management...

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 World Bank's recent concern for 'empowerment' grows out of longer standing discussions of participation, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society. While commitments to empowerment enter World Bank texts with relative ease, their practice within Bank-funded projects is far more...

Lewis D., Frisch M. and Greenberg M. (2004) Downsizing and worker separations: modelling the regional economic impacts of alternative Department of Energy workforce adjustment policies, Reg. Studies 38, 67-83. Fifty years of huge investments by the US Department of Energy (DOE) in some regions...

Using an economic simulation model, the study finds that the proposed expenditure by the U.S. Department of Energy of billions of dollars to manage the nuclear weapons environmental legacy followed by sharp reductions in expenditures would cause economic spikes and then depressions in three...