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Nature on the balance sheet: Accountability for Nature Positive
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy, prompting calls for enhanced business accountability. To support the urgent business transformations required to achieve Nature Positive goals, decision‐makers, investors, lenders and other stakeholders need consistent, comparable and decision‐useful information on the state of nature and
Greg Smith +6 more
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Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the relationship between ESG rating divergence and corporate excess cash holdings, employing a sample of Chinese A‐share listed companies from 2015 to 2021. Our findings reveal a significant positive relationship between ESG rating divergence and firms' excess cash holdings, a conclusion robust to various sensitivity ...
Qun Cao +3 more
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Avoiding Corporate Greenwashing? Sustainability Silence Narratives in the Agri‐Food Industry
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to shed more light on the reasons underlying companies' under‐communication or lack of communication to stakeholders about sustainability achievements in the agri‐food sector. A qualitative study based on 34 semi‐structured interviews with respondents from this sector shows the predominance of a rationale of ...
Olivier Boiral +3 more
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Formation of an Edge Striped Phase in Fractional Quantum Hall Systems
, 2001 We have performed an exact diagonalization study of up to N=12 interacting electrons on a disk at filling $\nu={1/3}$ for both Coulomb and $V_1$ short-range interaction for which Laughlin wave function is the exact solution.
A. Cappelli +25 more
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Power priors for latent variable mediation models under small sample sizes
British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Latent variable models typically require large sample sizes for acceptable efficiency and reliable convergence. Appropriate informative priors are often required for gainfully employing Bayesian analysis with small samples. Power priors are informative priors built on historical data, weighted to account for non‐exchangeability with the ...
Lihan Chen +2 more
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On the foundations of well-being economics and policy [PDF]
, 2013 When one wishes to implement public policies, there is a previous need of comparing different actions and valuating and evaluating them to assess their social attractiveness.
Munda, Giuseppe +1 more
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Recent Advances in the Theory and Simulation of Model Colloidal Microphase Formers
, 2016 This mini-review synthesizes our understanding of the equilibrium behavior of particle models with short-range attractive and long-range repulsive (SALR) interactions. These models, which can form stable periodic microphases, aim to reproduce the essence
Charbonneau, Patrick, Zhuang, Yuan
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Creativity and Innovation Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the limits of mission‐directed entrepreneurial states by drawing on the theory of recombinant innovation and F.A. Hayek's insights on the spontaneous growth of knowledge in society. First, the use of discretionary policymaking curtails the range of knowledge generated in the process of social interaction, limiting the scope
Bryan Cheang, Praharsh Mehrotra
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Indirect genetic effects of siblings
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.Background Within‐family designs are increasingly used to decompose genotype–trait associations into direct and indirect genetic effects. Many such designs, including trio designs or within‐sibship designs, assume an absence of sibling indirect genetic effects.
Mathias Valstad +7 more
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Modelling Theory Communities in Science [PDF]
This position paper presents a framework for modelling theory communities where theories interact as agents in a conceptual network. It starts with introducing the difficulties in integrating scientific theories by discussing some recent approaches ...
Petra Ahrweiler
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