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Impact Measuring in Sustainable Ventures: A Process Perspective

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Impact measurement is crucial for sustainable ventures to quantify their contribution to sustainable development. Although research has highly focused on impact measurement as a static activity, we conduct a qualitative study to explore how impact measuring as a process unfolds over time.
Jan Moellmann, Esther Salvi, Frank‐Martin Belz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trends in the determination of the civil from criminal liability

Journal on European History of Law, 2012
In the present paper the author analyses the basic legal features of civil liability (liability for damages arising from torts or breach of contractual duties), delimitating it from criminal liability, taking into account theoretical considerations ...
József Szalma
doaj  

Consent to Retaliation: A Civil Recourse Theory of Contractual Liability

, 2011
In the ancient Near East, contracts were often solemnized by hacking up a goat. The ritual was an enacted penalty clause: “If I breach this contract, let it be done to me as we are doing to the goat.” This Article argues that we are not so far removed ...
Oman, Nathan B.
core  

ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
wiley   +1 more source

Venture Funding: Signals of Environmental Orientation and Their Interplay With Investor‐ and Country‐Level Characteristics

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmentally oriented ventures pursue a dual mission: to create both environmental and financial value. This dual mission adds complexity and can influence ventures' funding prospects, as investors mostly pursue financial motivations.
David Flore, Corinna Vera Hedwig Schmidt, Steffen Strese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Responsibility for Damages in two cases of Contractual Football Sport Law [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Splitu, 2015
The co-authors in this paper highlight two interesting cases of contractual football law in which the UEFA (Curtois case) and the Commission for certifying registration of clubs and players HNS (Muric case) obviously overstepped their powers and the ...
Blanka Ivančić-Kačer, Davor Radić
doaj   +1 more source

Foundations and Examples of Civil Liability of Electricity Supply Institutionsin Iranian and American Law [PDF]

پژوهش های حقوق تطبیقی
The present research, using the qualitative method and analytical-descriptive method, aims to performance a comparative study and explain the foundations and examples of the civil responsibility of electricity supply institutions.
Faezeh sadat saadatmandi, Hasan Badini, Abbas Karimi   +2 more
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Agreements on Release of Contractual Liability of Entrepreneurs in Russia and China

BRICS Law Journal
This article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the provisions of the civil codes of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China regulating the conclusion of agreements on the release or limitation of civil liability. In the context of
S. Zimneva, Xiao He
doaj   +1 more source

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

Business 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, Sandro Rondinella, Marianna Succurro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inducing breach of contract: one tort or two? [PDF]

, 2004
IT is said to be a tort for D intentionally to induce C to break C’s contract with P. Where this occurs, P has an action in tort against D, quite apart from P’s action for breach of contract against C.
Chan, Winnie M. F., Simester, A. P.
core   +1 more source