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The Influence of ESG Controversies on Financing Costs for European Companies: Does Culture Matter?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) controversies and corporate financing costs, focusing on the moderating effect of national culture. It analyzes European companies listed on the STOXX 600 Index from 2016 to 2023.
Souad Brinette   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of macroeconomic infrastructure on supply chain smoothness and national competitiveness and its implications on a country's economic growth: evidence from BRICS countries

open access: yesUncertain Supply Chain Management
This study investigates the intricate relationships between macroeconomic infrastructure, supply chain smoothness, national competitiveness, and economic growth within the BRICS nations—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
Rinto Alexandro, Basrowi Basrowi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impact of emerging and frontier economies on global markets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The emerging markets have been the source of global economic growth for quite some time now, with far-reaching effects to the rest of the world, in particular to advanced economies.
Goncalves, Marcus
core  

Exploring the Governance–Disclosure Nexus: Board Structures and ESG Disclosures in South Africa

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how governance structures such as board composition and board functions influence environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting among listed South African firms. This study examines 90 public listed companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange between 2012 and 2022.
Henriette Elsabe Scholtz   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Private Equity Investment in the BRICs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This Article investigates the legal and economic environment for private equity investments in Brazil, Russia, India and China (“BRIC”). In contrast with disappointing returns in the 1990s, private equity investment has soared in developing countries ...
Andreas Woeller
core   +1 more source

Multilevel comparison of large urban systems

open access: yes, 2015
For the first time the systems of cities in seven countries or regions among the largest in the world (China, India, Brazil, Europe, the Former Soviet Union (FSU), the United States and South Africa) are made comparable through the building of spatio ...
Baffi, Solène   +9 more
core   +2 more sources

Innovation Pathways to Carbon Efficiency: Disentangling the Effects of AI, R&D, and Clean Energy Blessings on U.S. Environmental Sustainability

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The United States (U.S.) faces challenges in achieving its ambitious net‐zero carbon emissions target by 2050, with current emissions having fallen by less than 1% in 2024. Despite an investment of $500 billion in low‐carbon resources while holding the second‐largest green technology patent portfolio globally, it is further imperative to ...
Md Zubair Ahmad   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of the brics’ universities on internationalization of smart cities technologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Within the past decade, the increased use of technology in all sectors of society has created a push for cities to integrate the latest and greatest into their city development economically, socially and politically.
Bentsion, V.
core  

Eco‐Innovation, Economic Complexity, and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study systematizes the literature on eco‐innovation and economic complexity, aiming to understand how the sophistication of productive structures shapes countries' capacity to develop environmentally responsible innovations, and how eco‐innovation may, in turn, influence productive sophistication.
Gregory Matheus Pereira de Moraes   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metabolic Reprogramming of Clostridioides difficile During the Stationary Phase With the Induction of Toxin Production

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2018
The obligate anaerobe, spore forming bacterium Clostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium difficile) causes nosocomial and community acquired diarrhea often associated with antibiotic therapy.
Julia D. Hofmann   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

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