Nearly ten years since the official launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an understanding of what the initiative's objectives are consolidated. However, the short-, mid-, and long-term implications of the initiative are less clear. This is reflected in academic research, as well as in...

Over the last decades, research on the relationship between audit committees (ACs) and audit fees (AFs) has been increasing. Although numerous scholars have studied this topic, to the best of our knowledge, there is no systematic literature review (SLR) that provides a synthesized state of...

This review article displays several attempts to define family businesses as well as a systematization approach to get new insights about the relationship between family business definitions and their application under different conditions such as legal framework, culture or regional...

Given the important role inward FDI can play in accelerating economic growth and transformation, developing countries are interested in attracting it. This study contributes to evidence based policy making and to academic research on governance FDI relationship by meta synthesising 771 estimates...

The ability of any country to attract inward FDI is considered to depend on the quality of the economic governance found within that state. This study seeks to explore the value of quality economic governance in attracting FDI in South and East Asia by meta-synthesising 771 estimates from 48...

The concept of resilience is rather complicated and deep in content as well as quite complex for an assessment and measurement. This paper aims to make appropriate an literature review and to highlight the definition of “resilience”, as well as to analyze components in the context of the...