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Political Science's Engagement With the Sustainability Challenge: A Semi‐Systematic Review of the Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) Governance Literature

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The implications of sustainable development are far reaching, and yet many areas of academic scholarship were slow to deeply engage with it. This is a problem because, in practical terms, it can generate a false sense of calm, of business as usual, and a failure to rise to the integrative challenge of balancing the trade‐offs across ...
Fred Gale   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate Sustainability Management as an Emerging Profession – Insights From German Job Ads for Sustainability Managers (m/f/d)

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The sustainability transformation is understood to be one of the great challenges of the 21st Century and businesses are believed to play an important role in pathing the way toward a sustainable future. Although more and more companies react to this by creating explicit positions for sustainability managers, little empirical research has been
Dominik Bartsch, Larissa Sternkopf
wiley   +1 more source

Social Infrastructure in Southern Europe: A Diagnostic Tool for Socio‐Territorial Vulnerability in Public Policies

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dominant neoliberal management model in major European cities has led to a growing trend toward socio‐economic inequality, with its spatial dimensions highlighting clear contradictions. These social contradictions affect over a quarter of the Spanish population, particularly in the region of Andalusia (Southern Spain), with certain ...
Ricardo Iglesias‐Pascual   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The cousin marriage tradition, colonial shocks, and the performance of informal firms in sub‐Saharan Africa

open access: yesStrategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary The paper explores how the deep historical roots of informal institutions influence current informal businesses. It proposes that both pre‐colonial institutions—the tradition of cousin marriage—and the subsequent shocks of colonization still impact the performance of informal firms. We theorize on how the effects of historical
Saul Estrin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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