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By the gun or by the bribe: Firm size, environmental governance and corruption among mining companies in Guatemala
By the gun or by the bribe: Firm size, environmental governance and corruption among mining companies in GuatemalaU4 Issue | Sep 2015
(You can also read the most important points in this publication in our blog: Steps to limit the endemic corruption around junior mining companies)
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Junior mining companies, Environmental impact assessments, Environmental governance, Mergers and acquisitions, Violence, Bribery, natural resource management, Guatemala
In the business of peace: the political influence of private military and security companies on UN peacekeeping
Journal Article | Jan 2013
Private military and security companies increasingly perform services for the UN. The article describes how these companies are used by the UN organization ...
Tackling shell companies: Limiting the opportunities to hide proceeds of corruption
Tackling shell companies: Limiting the opportunities to hide proceeds of corruptionU4 Brief | Dec 2012
Shell companies that cannot be traced back to their owners are one of the most important mechanisms by which corrupt officials transfer illicit wealth ...
international drivers of corruption
Company Interests and Foreign Aid Policy: Playing Donors out against each other.
Journal Article | Jan 2006
Despite the importance attached to conditionality by the donors, and the fact that aid is a crucial income source for the recipient, it is found that ...
Triadic, Conditionality, Foreign aid, Foreign assistance, JEL classification: E61, F35
Company interests and foreign aid policy: Playing donors out against each other
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2003
Despite the importance attached to conditionality by the donors, and the fact that aid is a crucial income source for the recipient, it is found that ...
Triadic, Conditionality, Foreign aid, Foreign assistance, JEL classification: E61, F35
Proxy indicators for the corrupt misuse of corporations
Proxy indicators for the corrupt misuse of corporationsU4 Brief | Oct 2017
Winners of the U4 Proxy Challenge 2016
We need more imaginative ways of addressing corruption. It is important to generate indicators that development ...
private sector
Company influence on foreign aid disbursement: Is conditionality credible when donors have mixed motives?
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2003
When donors enforce conditionality upon recipients who do not implement the conditions, companies can suffer from cancellation of their contracts with ...
Triadic, Foreign aid, Credibility, Fungibility, Samaritan's dilemma, JEL classification: E61, F35
Company influence on foreign aid disbursement: Is conditionality credible when donors have mixed motives?
Journal Article | Jan 2004
When donors enforce conditionality upon recipients who do not implement the conditions, companies can suffer from cancellation of their contracts with ...
Triadic, Foreign aid, Credibility, Fungibility, Samaritan's dilemma, JEL classification: E61, F35
The Norway-East Africa Trading Company in Zanzibar, 1895-1925. Business communication in colonial times
The Norway-East Africa Trading Company in Zanzibar, 1895-1925. Business communication in colonial timesBook Chapter | Jan 2015
This article uses the Norway East Africa Trading company in Zanzibar as an example of how increased facility of communication aided small businesses in ...
Africa, colonialism, Tanzania, Zanzibar
Preventing the misuse of shell companies by regulating corporate service providers
Preventing the misuse of shell companies by regulating corporate service providersU4 Brief | Oct 2013
Corporate service providers supply the shell companies that are commonly used to launder illicit funds, including the proceeds of corruption. Effectively ...
international drivers of corruption, tax havens, tax evasion, tax avoidance, corruption, shell companies, corporate service providers, money laundering, illicit financial flows
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Angolan Oil Industry
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2005
What are the responsibility of oil companies in resource rich countries? Do they
take these responsibilities? Based on a utilitarian perspective and ...
Oil, Corporate social responsibility, Ethics, Angola, Jel Codes: M14, L71, D63
Corruption and doing business in Serbia
Corruption and doing business in SerbiaU4 Brief | Oct 2007
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) have been described as ‘the backbone' of the economy of the Western Balkans.Indeed, with SMEs making up ...
private sector, corruption, Serbia
Implementers or Governors? The Expanding Role for Private Military and Security Companies within the Peace Operations Network
Journal Article | Jan 2014
This article explores the role of private security and military companies within the wider confinements of peace operations governance. To do so, the ...
Assigned corporate social responsibility in a rentier state: The case of Angola
Assigned corporate social responsibility in a rentier state: The case of AngolaBook Chapter | Jan 2012
What responsibilities do oil companies in Angola have to improve the situation of the Angolan population? Standard corporate social responsibility (CSR) ...
CSR, Oil, Angola
Doing global investments the Nordic way. The 'business case' for Equinor’s support to union work among its employees in Tanzania
Doing global investments the Nordic way. The 'business case' for Equinor’s support to union work among its employees in TanzaniaJournal Article | Oct 2020
In the Nordic countries, unions are represented in company boards and can infl uence companies’ policies toward labor abroad. Th is article focuses ...
Tanzania, labor, natural resources, oil, natural gas, Equinor, Statoil
UN Use of Private Military and Security Companies. Practices and Policies
Report in External Series | Jan 2011
UN Use of Private Military and Security Companies. Practices and Policies Åse Gilje Østensen aas
Norwegian energy companies abroad
Norwegian energy companies abroadProject | Feb 2015 - Dec 2019
Norwegian energy companies abroad. Expanding the anthropological understanding of corporate social responsibility.
When Norwegian energy companies invest ...
Tanzania, Turkey, Norway
Most people are not economists: Citizen preferences for corporate taxation
Most people are not economists: Citizen preferences for corporate taxationCMI Working Paper | Nov 2018
On what bases should corporations be taxed? This article presents evidence from a series of discrete choice experiments designed to elicit the tax preferences ...
Corporate taxation, tax preferences, tax legitimacy, optimal taxation, Tanzania
Russian Use of Private Military and Security Companies - the implications for European and Norwegian Security
Russian Use of Private Military and Security Companies - the implications for European and Norwegian SecurityReport in External Series | Sep 2018
How does the Russian use of private military and security companies affect Russian use of force and what are the implications for European and Norwegian ...
Security, Russia, Private Military Companies, Russia
Gullfaks - the first Norwegian oil field developed and operated by Norwegian companies
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000
This case study analyses the market for oil-related producer services for the Gullfaks oil field in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. We find that ...