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Hershey Dominates US Market, but Lags Behind Competitors in Avoiding Forced Labor, Trafficking and Child Labor [PDF]
, 2010 This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
International Labor Rights Forum
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Imagining Corporate Sustainability as a Public Good Rather than a Corporate Bad [PDF]
, 2014 Corporations have been criticized for their environmental misdeeds for over a century, so it is not surprising that many view corporate approaches to sustainability with skepticism.
Wagner, Wendy E.
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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 +2 more
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An evaluation of sustainability in large British companies [PDF]
, 2019 This article undertakes an assessment of the sustainability efforts of some of the largest companies that are listed on the FTSE 100 (a share index composed of the 100 largest companies that are listed on the London Stock Exchange according to market ...
Iqbal, T., Keay, A. R.
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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 +2 more
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Certification Systems as Tools for Natural Asset Building: Potential, Experiences to Date, and Critical Challenges [PDF]
, 2005 Certification systems are becoming important tools to encourage and reward social and environmental responsibility. This paper explores whether these systems, which generally have not been designed for the explicit aim of poverty reduction, can assist ...
Michael E. Conroy
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Policy and market strategies of the ecotourism industry in developing countries [PDF]
, 2019 Ecotourism is a growing industry around the world. However, in more recent years, ecotourism has become more than just a business. Developing nations have seen ecotourism contribute meaningfully to the local economy, the environment and indigenous ...
Smith, James Burleson, III
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Symbolic or Substantive Action: Intent, Effort, and Results
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many firms have made ambitious climate pledges since the Paris Agreement of 2015. These pledges may be symbolic or substantive, but the literature is fragmented in defining these two terms. We propose a conceptual framework with three frames to delineate symbolic from substantive action: Intent—underlying motivations for engaging in climate ...
Vincent Xinyi Gu +1 more
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Virgin Atlantic Airways: A Look Inside the Airline’s Green Initiatives [PDF]
, 2015 Greenwashing is a growing trend in the advertising of organization’s green efforts as well as the relationship it holds with a corporation’s public image and identity.
Notis, Ilana
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Can an Old Dog Learn New Tricks? Applying Traditional Corporate Law Principles to New Social Enterprise Legislation [PDF]
, 2012 Seven U.S. states have recently adopted the benefit corporation or the flexible purpose corporation—two novel corporate forms intended to house social enterprises, i.e., those ventures that pursue social and environmental missions along with profits. And
Plerhoples, Alicia E.
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