This article investigates the performance determinants of accountability institutions in new democracies. Current scholarship on accountability has identified a distinct mechanism through which the introduction of political ...

This manuscript empirically assesses the effects of political institutions on economic growth. It analyzes how political institutions affect economic growth in different stages of democratization and economic development ...

The metaverse is becoming an important part of the education technology market. Immersive learning of the metaverse is especially likely to attract young learners. This article discusses metaverse's benefits to higher ...

A bibliometric analysis of the scientific production of the journal Scire: Representacion y organizacion del Conocimiento in the 2006-2014 period is offered, in order to show its internationalization. Specifically, the ...

This article aims to provide answers to two questions prompted by the latest reforms of Brazilian foreign service during Lula da Silva's presidency: How exactly might these institutional changes generate any impact over ...

Are sources of economic rent, as defined by the prevalent business strategy paradigm, sufficient to attain and maintain superior returns? The perspective developed within the conceptual framework of the Institutional Theory ...

This paper examines the relationship between firm investment ratios and institutional blockholders for a sample of 6300 publicly traded firms in 16 large emerging markets for the 2004–2016 period. Results show that ...