This paper provides a common framework for financial institutions – and particularly development finance institutions – on how to carry out due diligence to identify, respond to, and publicly communicate on environmental and social risks associated with projects and assets they finance....

"Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This Research Agenda poses unique questions and...

Traditional forms of expertise are increasingly challenged in different domains, not least because of the possibilities offered by the spread of the Internet. We aim to understand how a claim to alternative expertise in the investment domain emerged, developed, and propagated, taking advantage...

Das Thema Mergers & Acquisitions ist für Wissenschaft und Praxis von hoher Relevanz. Die Herausforderung liegt insbesondere in interdisziplinären Fragestellungen, die sich im Rahmen solcher Transaktionen regelmäßig stellen. Der M&A Alumni Deutschland e.V. hat daher die Fachtagung „Mergers...

The drafters of the World Trade Organisation’s law that permits a Member State to export conventional arms everywhere, did not envisage the dangerous free rein that the transnational defence corporation enjoys under the protection of the State. Although this corporation is subject to domestic...

The policy challenge. Citizens and politicians in Western democracies have increasingly become aware of the importance of human rights, civil liberties, social rights, and sustainability issues as well as the different adherence to basic rights (such as equal treatment) all over the world. This...