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Interesting nugget from this @compchange.bsky.social paper from @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social and vd Heide: not the largest NL bank ING, but 2nd and 3rd bank ABN AMRO and Rabobank have the most memberships of transnational sustainable finance initiatives (pdf): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
25.01.2026 16:19 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Read open access in Competition & Change: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
14.10.2025 12:54 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐จNew Article Out! โThe Scottish Road to Net Zero: Corporate Welfare and Assetization Cascadesโ
The article focuses on the evolution of the land-based natural capital market in Scotland in light of the country's net zero efforts.
And if youโre interested in dependent development, youโll love the recent special issue published by @compchange.bsky.social (and guest edited by @aritassinari.bsky.social, @fbulfone.bsky.social, and Aldo Madariaga)
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first page of "Dependent development in digital capitalism: The politics of startup policies in the new periphery." abstract: As digital technologyโs economic importance increases, policymakers pivot to supporting startups โ new, small, high-risk firms that produce technological innovation. Tracing the passage of startup policies in Brazil and Spain between 2014 โ 2022, this article argues that startup policies do little to reduce peripheral countriesโ dependence on the core. In each case, startups advocated for these policies by relying on financial and organizational resources from the giant US-based technology firms known as โBig Tech.โ The article makes three contributions to the framework of dependent development. First, it reinforces existing observations that dependence on Big Tech extends beyond the Global South. Second, it revives political analysis of dependency, exploring the political conditions for economic development in the periphery. Lastly, it shows how startupsโ political dependence on Big Tech implies important limits on startupsโ ability to lead peripheral economies out of dependence on the core.
Out now in Competition & Change
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โDependent development in digital
capitalism: The politics of startup
policies in the new peripheryโ
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nice to see our climate litigation against ING has not gone unnoticed in this interesting review of CSO campaigns against banks (p.4) - too bad the article focuses on reputational issues without taking account of other impacts of campaigns journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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The 3โฃrd article of our SI (w/ @elsaclaramassoc.bsky.social) on the Transformation of Banking @Competition is online
Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska & I study the various ways in which authoritarian leaders instrumentalise the banking sector ๐
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๐จ New publication out: โThe Anatomy of Chinese Capitalismโ (Competition & Change / Kรถncke, Erlbacher & Schmalz, 2025)
How and to what extent does the party-state govern top Chinese firms?
We unpack this with new data and a sectoral lens.
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๐จNew article out with @mattvermeir.bsky.social in @compchange.bsky.social: "Rolling out the Wall Street Consensus? MDBs & the Trilemma of Private Capital Mobilization"
We examine why MDBs are failing to deliver on the promise of "mobilizing trillions" for the SDGs๐
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We are delighted, too. Thanks to the guest editors @fbulfone.bsky.social, Aldo Madariaga & @aritassinari.bsky.social, and to all contributors. Check out the contents of vol. 29 issue 3-4 here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/CCH/curr...
18.07.2025 11:29 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hello! ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง & ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ ๐ has joined Bsky. We'll be sharing new articles and other journal-related updates.
To start, excellent news: Our 2024 impact factor is up four points: 3.4.
This reflects the high-quality work of our authors, reviewers, and editorsโthank you, and keep them coming! ๐
