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A Critical Analysis of Microsoft's Rhetoric and Reality of Sustainability Engagement
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study critically examines Microsoft's environmental, social and governance (ESG) rhetoric and operational reality, to offer insights that extend beyond conventional greenwashing or bluewashing. Drawing on over 20 years of Microsoft's sustainability reports (2003–2024), third‐party ESG evaluations and media investigations, it employs ...
Omaima A. G. Hassan, Iqbal Khadaroo
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Conceptualizing Corporate Political Activity for Sustainability Governance—The CPA Cube
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability transformations in the economy, and related public policy decisions, are highly contested, attracting business involvement. To better understand how business influence on government impacts the success or failure of sustainability governance efforts, this paper extends the literature on corporate political activity (CPA) by ...
Burkard Eberlein, Janina Grabs
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The agri‐food sector, most notably intensive livestock production, stands as a major driver of climate change, prompting a shift towards plant‐based alternative protein production and consumption. Such protein transition is widely recognised as central to the development of an environmentally sustainable food economy.
Francesca Monticone, Antonella Samoggia
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Ethical Behaviour and Corporate Financing. The Case of ‘Legality Rating’
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The financial crisis has heightened awareness of ethical and legal issues in the business context. Corporate ethical behaviour is increasingly measured through sustainability ratings. Since 2012, in Italy, the introduction of a sustainability rating, namely the legality rating (LR), has served as an innovative ‘label’ for socially responsible ...
Federica Doni +3 more
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Demand‐Driven Mergers: Advertising, Differentiation, and Welfare
Managerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We consider mergers that induce demand changes. We study the firms' incentives to submit a merger request and the competition authority's decision to approve the request. We show that merger‐induced demand changes help expand settings where the interests of firms and competition authority align, whereas contexts where their interests are ...
Felix Munoz‐Garcia +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT South Africa faces persistently high poverty and inequality alongside a highly concentrated economic structure, raising questions about whether merger control, especially public‐interest provisions, can contribute to poverty reduction. However, empirical evidence directly linking merger adjudication outcomes to poverty remains limited.
Nicholas Ngepah +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study reviews 54 empirical‐quantitative (archival) articles on the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) outcomes and corporate misconduct. Based on the moral licensing and moral track hypotheses, we distinguish between CSR performance, reporting, and assurance on the one hand and between financial and CSR‐related ...
Patrick Velte
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How Antitrust Failed Workers by Eric A. Posner
Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 2023 IN RECENT YEARS, GROWING ECONOMIC INEQUALITY and anxieties about market power, monopolization, and other such concerns have rejuvenated competition and antitrust law and policy. It is well known that antitrust enhances competition by addressing issues of
Maria Arabella M. Robles
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Ekonomia i Prawo, 2012 Creating equal conditions for competition on the market consists in setting the sector regulation. Sector regulations have coincident cells and assumptions, similarly to the antitrust law. The provisions of the sector regulations are autonomous in view
Rafał Stankiewicz
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Antitrust Law and Innovation Cooperation [PDF]
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1990 Should innovation collaboration among high technology firms be subject to the antitrust laws? My own analysis concludes that innovation collaboration, particularly when it encompasses production and marketing, can create anticompetitive risks, and should be subject to the antitrust laws.
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