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

open access: yesBusiness 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contrastive Studies : Strategies to Mitigate or Intensify Criticism in Catalan and English Book Reviews [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Contrastive studies (Connor 1996) is the field of research which compares two languages to find out similarities and differences across cultures. As English has become the lingua Franca, non-native scholars are trying to publish their work in English ...
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Do ESG Leaders Achieve Higher Firm Financial Performance? The Influence of Women Directors and Controversial Industries

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the growing pressure on companies to achieve high ESG performance while minimising ESG controversies, this study investigates how ESG performance and ESG controversies jointly affect firm financial performance (measured as ROA and ROE), considering the effect of the presence of women directors and of operating in controversial versus non‐
Alice Alosi, Emilia Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing convergence and divergence in pairs of Spanish and English research article abstracts

open access: yesIbérica, 2011
Investigamos patrones de similitud y diferencia en pares de resúmenes de artículos de investigación con versiones en inglés y español publicados en Ibérica. Para tal fin, analizamos 84 pares de resúmenes con ambas versiones escritas por los autores.
Moisés Perales Escudero, John M. Swales
doaj  

Engagement strategies in English and Arabic newspaper editorials. [PDF]

open access: yesHumanit Soc Sci Commun, 2023
Alghazo S   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Current Trends and Future Research in Management Control for Sustainability in Retail

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing emphasis on sustainability in the retail sector, driven by regulatory frameworks, market trends and consumer demand, has placed management control at the forefront of facilitating sustainability practices. Despite increasing academic interest in this area, the literature is fragmented and provides limited sector‐specific insight ...
Miguel Gil, Mart Ots, Timur Uman
wiley   +1 more source

Discussing the Importance of Ontology and Epistemology Awareness in Practitioner Research. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper uses the focus of identity and acculturation within schools as the basis for a reflection on the ways in which researchers ground their investigations.
Bracken, Seán
core   +1 more source

Takeover Vulnerability and the Discipline of ESG Overinvestment

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While takeovers serve a disciplinary role by replacing inefficient managers, the threat of takeovers may compel firms to divert attention from Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts as a strategic response to external pressure, especially when such firms are already overinvesting in ESG.
Abongeh Tunyi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the interplay of mode of discourse and proficiency level in ESL writing performance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Recent theory in discourse and practice in rhetoric has suggested that writers require different skills and strategies when writing for different purposes, and in using different genres and modes (Kinneavy, 1972; Carrell and Connor, 1991) in writing. The
Heng, Chan Swee, Md. Rashid, Sabariah
core  

Zero Deforestation Commitments and Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies: An Analysis of Their Role in Mitigating Deforestation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the role of corporate zero‐deforestation commitments (ZDCs) and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) enabling technologies in mitigating deforestation. Drawing on data from 110 companies included in the Forest 500 dataset, the research explores whether sustainability commitments and digital innovation influence firms' deforestation ...
Valentina Beretta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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