Latest Research in International Business and FDI

19 research papers · 2026 median publication year

Top Research Topics in International Business and FDI

Highest-Cited Papers

  1. ESG Disclosure, ESG Performance, and Outward Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms
  2. ESG materiality and risk prioritisation in an emerging market: a qualitative study
  3. ESG Value in US firms: sectoral dynamics with a COVID-19 perspective
  4. Financial Health and Environmental Transparency in the Catalan Pharmaceutical Sector (2019–2023)
  5. Does ESG Performance Improve Corporate Profit Quality? Evidence from Chinese A-Share Listed Firms
  6. Sustainability disclosure regulations in the EU: an enabling factor for impact investors?
  7. Assessing the Readability of Sustainability Reports: Obfuscation or Jargon?
  8. What Transfers Under Source Shift? Definitions, Examples, and Fine-Tuning for Climate Disclosure Classification
  9. ESG Reporting Trends and the Influence of Ownership and Firm Size—Evidence From India
  10. The Effect of Cross‐Listing on Industry Performance in Emerging Economies
  11. Financing cost and ESG performance: the role of sustainability committees as governance enablers among Southeast Asian firms
  12. Signaling Sustainability: How Reporting Quality Translates Into Competitive Advantage in ASEAN Economies
  13. ESG Disclosure Quality as Organizational Information Processing: Comparing Human Coding, Rule‐Based Automation, and LLM Semantic Scoring
  14. Between mandate and market: a structured review and conceptual framework linking ESG regulation, ratings, and firm performance
  15. Corporate Governance Pillars and ESG Disclosure: A Systematic Literature Review
  16. ESG Ratings, Profitability and Cost of Capital: A Firm-Level Analysis
  17. Trade-off between economic and social sustainability growth: the moderating role of CEO gender
  18. Determinants of Environmental Information Disclosure in Annual Reports
  19. Evaluating the ESG Ratings of Global Firms: An Empirical Study
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International Business and FDI

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Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting14
International Business and FDI1
COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts1
Community Development and Social Impact1
Computation and Language1
Market Dynamics and Volatility1

Top Publications (19)

1.ESG Disclosure, ESG Performance, and Outward Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms2.ESG materiality and risk prioritisation in an emerging market: a qualitative study3.ESG Value in US firms: sectoral dynamics with a COVID-19 perspective4.Financial Health and Environmental Transparency in the Catalan Pharmaceutical Sector (2019–2023)5.Does ESG Performance Improve Corporate Profit Quality? Evidence from Chinese A-Share Listed Firms6.Sustainability disclosure regulations in the EU: an enabling factor for impact investors?7.Assessing the Readability of Sustainability Reports: Obfuscation or Jargon?8.What Transfers Under Source Shift? Definitions, Examples, and Fine-Tuning for Climate Disclosure Classification9.<scp>ESG</scp> Reporting Trends and the Influence of Ownership and Firm Size—Evidence From India10.The Effect of Cross‐Listing on Industry Performance in Emerging Economies11.Financing cost and ESG performance: the role of sustainability committees as governance enablers among Southeast Asian firms12.Signaling Sustainability: How Reporting Quality Translates Into Competitive Advantage in <scp>ASEAN</scp> Economies13.ESG Disclosure Quality as Organizational Information Processing: Comparing Human Coding, Rule‐Based Automation, and LLM Semantic Scoring14.Between mandate and market: a structured review and conceptual framework linking ESG regulation, ratings, and firm performance15.Corporate Governance Pillars and <scp>ESG</scp> Disclosure: A Systematic Literature Review16.ESG Ratings, Profitability and Cost of Capital: A Firm-Level Analysis17.Trade-off between economic and social sustainability growth: the moderating role of CEO gender18.Determinants of Environmental Information Disclosure in Annual Reports19.Evaluating the ESG Ratings of Global Firms: An Empirical Study
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