One the eve of election day in Hungary, hot off the press at @compchange.bsky.social: Dóra Györffy on how the lack of constraints on the Hungarian government has facilitated "predatory objectives and the dominance of private over public interests." Open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

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....

Read open access in Competition & Change: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

🚨New Article Out! “The Scottish Road to Net Zero: Corporate Welfare and Assetization Cascades” 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 you’re interested in dependent development, you’ll love the recent special issue published by @compchange.bsky.social (and guest edited by @aritassinari.bsky.social, @fbulfone.bsky.social, and Aldo Madariaga) doi.org/10.1177/1024... 13/n

Out now in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social “Dependent development in digital capitalism: The politics of startup policies in the new periphery” @journals.sagepub.com #polisky journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1/n

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....

♨️Hot off the press The 3⃣rd 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 👇 doi.org/10.1177/1024...

🚨 New publication out: “The Anatomy of Chinese Capitalism” (Competition & Change / Köncke, 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. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024... @sfb294.bsky.social

🚨New 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 SDGs👇 Here:

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...

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