Showing papers on "Corporate governance published in 2024"

Reducing Emissions of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

Abstract: Short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), including methane, black carbon, hydrofluorocarbons, and tropospheric ozone, have become part of climate policy debates. Discussion has revolved around the potential of their mitigation to slow down global warming in the short term and bring about co-benefits, for instance, for air quality and public health. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of global SLCP law and governance. A diverse array of contributors delves into the science and evolution of the concept of SLCPs, analyses the legal and governance responses developed under various international and transnational arenas, and discusses selected sectoral case studies.

Transactions in Paraná’s dairy AGS: a study based on transaction and measurement costs

Abstract: Abstract: This article aimed to understand how governance structures and the search for value protection influence transaction costs in the relationship between dairy producers and processors in Paraná, Brazil. These aspects are treated by Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and by Measurement Cost Economics (MCE). For data collection, 30 semi-structured interviews were conducted and Content Analysis was used for data treatment and results analysis. For the theory, the study contributed demonstrating that although the alignment between transaction attributes and governance structures contribute for value protection as proposed by TCE, in the absence of complete information, this alignment is still not enough to guarantee economic rights, as predicted by MCE. Empirically, it contributed suggesting the use of formal contracts and the importance of formal information available to milk producers and processors to improve their results in the activity. Thus, considering the governance structures in Paraná’s dairy AGS, it is predicted that even if the hybrid structure is adequate, under TCE view, due to its alignment with transaction attributes, MCE concepts help to explain why agents still need guarantee mechanisms. Those mechanisms, such as long-term relationships, normative instructions and informal agreements, attempt to protect value, given informational problems.

New Public Management and Smart Local Governance in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Abstract: The application of new public management to the assessment of smart local governance in the knowledge economy is an emergent area of scholarship in sub-Saharan Africa. This article thus employs the concept of new public management based on the framework of the fourth industrial revolution to evaluate the defining attributes of Namibia's local government system with the view of delineating important lessons for technologically-oriented public administration. Specifically, it identifies eight broad themes that configure new public management in smart local governance: e-government, knowledge management, participatory geographic information systems and decentralised governance, agency and innovation, performance management and administrative efficiency, policy and organisational learning, public accountability, and public-private partnerships. The article observes that technology tools and the effective management of information or knowledge systems constitute preeminent mechanisms for promoting local government efficiency in contemporary times.

The Afterlives of Extraction: Alternatives and Sustainable Futures

Abstract: The frontiers of extraction are expanding rapidly, driven by a growing demand for minerals and metals that is often motivated by sustainability considerations. Two volumes of International Development Policy are dedicated to the paradoxes and futures of green extractivism, with analyses of experiences from five continents. In this, the second of the two volumes, the 22 authors, using different conceptual approaches and in different empirical contexts, demonstrate the alarming obduracy of the logic of extractivism, even - and perhaps especially - in the growing support for the so-called green transition. The authors highlight the complex and enduring legacies of resource extraction and the urgent need to move beyond extractive models of development towards alternative pathways that prioritise social justice, environmental sustainability, democratic governance and the well-being of both humans and non-humans. They also caution us against the assumption that anti-extraction is anti-extractivist, that post-extraction is post-extractivism, and they critically attune us to the systemic nature of extractivism in ways that both connect and transcend any particular site or scale. This volume accompanies IDP 15, The Lives of Extraction: Identities, Communities, and the Politics of Place.

Non-Pecuniary Private Benefits in Publicly Traded Corporations

Abstract: Non-pecuniary private benefits, a phenomenon in publicly traded corporations, may be extracted by influencing shareholders to the detriment of the minority shareholders and corporations. Involuntary dissolution statutes are there to control and remedy such damaging extractions. Shareholder oppression disputes are changing, and involuntary dissolution statutes are evolving. Within this paradigm, non-pecuniary private benefits, a phenomenon in publicly traded corporations, appears as a subject rarely discussed. However, it is occasionally extracted by influencing shareholders to the detriment of the minority shareholders and corporations. Involuntary dissolution statutes are there to control and remedy such damaging extractions.