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From Rating System to Thought Leadership: The Evolution of the Canada Green Building Council
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Green Building Social Movement Organizations encourage the adoption of green buildings, primarily by promoting sustainability rating tools. While numerous papers have explored the market impact of these sustainability rating tools, very few have examined either the lengthy and protracted process of their selection and enrollment by ...
J. J. McArthur +2 more
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Corporate Governance: An International Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue Director reelection pressure strengthens directors' accountability to shareholders, yet its implications for stakeholder‐oriented engagement, such as corporate sustainability, remain theoretically ambiguous and empirically underexplored.
Zhe Li, Bo Wang
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Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.Biodiversity is declining globally, underscoring the need for conservation strategies informed by regional expertise. In the northeastern United States, 14 state wildlife agencies and taxonomic experts developed the Regional Species of Greatest Conservation Need (RSGCN) list, revealing that global and national datasets captured only ~55% of regionally ...
Melissa D. Starking +9 more
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Foundation governance for the purposeful ownership of enterprise
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract Foundation‐owned companies are regarded as real‐world examples of commitment to a company purpose, and several world‐class companies have this ownership structure. They have been found to perform surprisingly well, given the accountability and incentive problems anticipated by conventional economic theories when nonprofit organizations own ...
Terry McNulty, Steen Thomsen
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Social Justice as a Catalyst for Ecumenical Engagement
The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article provides a comprehensive overview of the historical formation of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (FCC), examining the social and political context in the United States that shaped its adoption of ecumenical practices focused on social justice.
Geneva Blackmer
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Board Independence and Adjustment Speed of CEO Inside Debt
European Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We find that firms with more independent directors adjust CEO inside debt towards an optimum more quickly. This effect is more pronounced in financially unconstrained, growth, and under‐levered firms, and also firms led by more powerful or overconfident CEOs.
Bonnie Buchanan, Shuhui Wang, Tina Yang
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Counting Women, Keeping Men in Power? Willingness–Ability–Authority in Family Firms
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This commentary unsettles the “add‐women‐and‐stir” perspective and re‐centers gendered power in family firms as a question of governance, not headcounts. We see family firms as gendered regimes where kinship, ownership, and succession intertwine with broader societal gender norms to maintain patriarchal settlements.
Natalia Vershinina +4 more
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Enhancing Recharge in the Edwards Aquifer, Texas: Measures, Outcomes, and Lessons for Karst Aquifers
Groundwater, EarlyView.Abstract Managed aquifer recharge is a widely adopted method that involves storing excess water underground for future use. While managed aquifer recharge has been applied globally to different aquifer types, its use in karst aquifers is less common due to the unique hydrogeological characteristics of these systems, including high permeability ...
Neelam Thapa Magar, Robert E. Mace
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Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Intensive multigenerational size‐selective mortality has been found to alter collective properties like shoaling via evolutionary adaptations of individual‐level behavioural traits. For example, experimental populations of zebrafish (Danio rerio) experiencing intensive large size‐selective mortality over multiple generations developed less ...
Tamal Roy +2 more
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論我國現行科技法制對公立大學技術移轉之影響初探 Impacts of ‘Science and Technology Basic Act’ on National Universities in Taiwan [PDF]
Kējì Fǎxué Pínglùn, 2012 為因應全球化知識經濟時代興起之挑戰，我國政府近年來對於科技發展相當重視。儘管憲法與科技相關之條款紛多，但此等科技憲法條款仍有模糊與不足之處。我國參考美國拜杜法案（Bayh-Dole Act）之立法意旨，於1999年制定科學技術基本法，後於2003 年及2005 年進行部分條文之修正。2011年再次做出重大修正，主要的內容包括政府應致力推動全國研究發展經費逐年成長；對於研究成果優異之公立單位，政府得給予必要的支援；此外，對於歸屬公立學校、公立機關（構）或公營事業之智慧財產權及成果，其保管、使用 ...
許舜喨 Shun-Liang Hsu +1 more
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