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Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Green Innovation and Firm Efficiency: The Role of Institutional Quality in Italian High‐Tech Manufacturing Sectors

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Analysis of Coherence of Chinese Courtroom Discourse

open access: yesInternational Journal of Criminology and Sociology, 2014
Coherence, the relationships which link the meanings of utterances in a discourse or of the sentences in a text, is realized on two levels: linear or sequential coherence and global semantic structure. Taking the audio recording transcripts of two trials (one criminal and one civil) as data, this paper analyzes coherence of Chinese courtroom discourse.
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Productivity and Emissions in Italian Agriculture: A Farm‐Level Efficiency Analysis

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving the European Union climate‐neutrality objectives requires metrics that jointly assess farm productivity and greenhouse gas emissions at a granular level. However, harmonized evidence for benchmarking the productivity–emissions nexus of Italian farms remains limited.
Giulio Fusco   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Compliance: The Role of Climate Policy Stringency and Financial Institutions in Cleantech Startup Entry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how environmental regulations can drive technological change, drawing on the innovation systems perspective and the strong Porter hypothesis (SPH). The SPH suggests that well‐designed stringent regulations can foster innovation and enhance firm competitiveness, performance, and survival, yet prior research remains largely ...
Muhammad Zubair Khan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Justice Under Microscope: Analysing Mandarin Chinese Markers in Virtual Courtroom Discourse

open access: yesDiscourse Studies, 2023
As codified in professional guidelines, professional interpreters should faithfully interpret everything that has been said exactly as the original speakers. In other words, court interpreters are expected to adequately interpret both the content and the manner of original utterances into their pragmatic equivalence to the best of their knowledge ...
openaire   +1 more source

SDG Forward Faster in the Face of Geopolitical and Climate Risks: Does CEO Power Strengthen This Relationship?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In a macroeconomic environment characterised by systemic disruptions and global uncertainty, companies are forced to reconfigure their sustainability strategies. This study examines the combined impact of geopolitical and climate risks on corporate commitment to and actual progress toward the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals ...
Isabel‐María García‐Sánchez
wiley   +1 more source

International Evidence on How Investors Value Environmental Innovation: Non‐Pecuniary Investor Preferences or Risk Mitigation?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how environmental innovation shapes investor expectations. We propose two mechanisms through which sustained improvements in environmental innovation may influence these expectations: non‐pecuniary investor preferences and risk mitigation.
Ellen Pei‐yi Yu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate Indigenous Stakeholder Engagement in the Sustainability Reporting: Evidence From the Australian Mining Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the growing pressure for indigenous stakeholder engagement, this paper explores the extent and nature of indigenous stakeholder engagement disclosures in the sustainability reporting of Australian mining companies. Drawing on stakeholder theory and legitimacy theory, this study explores how large Australian mining companies disclose ...
Md. Moazzem Hossain   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Analysis of the Classification System in Chinese Courtroom Discourse

open access: yesInternational Journal for Innovation Education and Research, 2015
This paper analyzes the classification resources in the audio recording transcripts of three trials in China. The findings indicate that: 1) courtroom participants with opposite goals tend to use expressions with different and even opposite meanings to classify the same things, incidents and concepts which are related to the dispute focuses, 2 ...
openaire   +1 more source

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