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Costly Signals and Cheap Talk: Measuring the Decoupling of ESG Routinisation and Greenwashing Risk

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Greenwashing is a systemic challenge to sustainable finance, yet prevailing ESG metrics still tend to equate more disclosure with more sustainability. We develop a dual‐index framework to compare firms' ESG ‘talk’ and ‘walk’ using hard data. An ESG Routinisation Index approximates the costly integration of sustainability into emissions, safety
Giacomo Zatini, Nicola Torricella, Armando della Porta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Compliance: The Role of Climate Policy Stringency and Financial Institutions in Cleantech Startup Entry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how environmental regulations can drive technological change, drawing on the innovation systems perspective and the strong Porter hypothesis (SPH). The SPH suggests that well‐designed stringent regulations can foster innovation and enhance firm competitiveness, performance, and survival, yet prior research remains largely ...
Muhammad Zubair Khan, Affan Hameed, Naimat U. Khan, Zafir Ullah Khan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic Vulnerability in the Legal Context

Academic Journal of Modern Philology
Issues related to communication within legal contexts often remain largely invisible or overlooked by the general public. Although this subject tends to attract limited attention outside academic and professional spheres, it, nonetheless, holds ...
Marta Sobieszewska
doaj   +1 more source

Interpreting the Manner of Speech in courts: an overlooked aspect. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2023
Yi R.
europepmc   +1 more source

SDG Forward Faster in the Face of Geopolitical and Climate Risks: Does CEO Power Strengthen This Relationship?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In a macroeconomic environment characterised by systemic disruptions and global uncertainty, companies are forced to reconfigure their sustainability strategies. This study examines the combined impact of geopolitical and climate risks on corporate commitment to and actual progress toward the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals ...
Isabel‐María García‐Sánchez
wiley   +1 more source

International Evidence on How Investors Value Environmental Innovation: Non‐Pecuniary Investor Preferences or Risk Mitigation?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how environmental innovation shapes investor expectations. We propose two mechanisms through which sustained improvements in environmental innovation may influence these expectations: non‐pecuniary investor preferences and risk mitigation.
Ellen Pei‐yi Yu, Bac Van Luu, Dominic H. Chai, Alessandra Tanda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiating Institutional Hierarchy: Power, Politeness, and Meaning Construction in English-to-Chinese Courtroom Translation

SAGE Open
This corpus-based study investigates the translation of modality from English to Chinese in the high-stakes context of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE). Grounded in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), the analysis employs a
Shuangjiao Wu, Mansour Amini, Yiqiu Wang
doaj   +1 more source

Unveiling the Rhetoric of Victim Blaming: Perpetuating Language Patterns in Select Bollywood Films Depicting Sexual Assault

Space and Culture, India
This research investigates the rhetoric of victim blaming of women in select Bollywood films portraying instances of sexual assaults. By examining the language patterns employed in these films, this study aims to unveil the underlying narrative ...
Shubham Pathak, Akansha Narayan
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Corporate Indigenous Stakeholder Engagement in the Sustainability Reporting: Evidence From the Australian Mining Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the growing pressure for indigenous stakeholder engagement, this paper explores the extent and nature of indigenous stakeholder engagement disclosures in the sustainability reporting of Australian mining companies. Drawing on stakeholder theory and legitimacy theory, this study explores how large Australian mining companies disclose ...
Md. Moazzem Hossain, Aklema Choudhury Lema, Shamsun Nahar, Md. Jahidur Rahman, Udani Chathurika Edirisinghe, Kerry Bodle   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Gazing” is believing: a multimodal construction of litigants’ rhetorical testimonial credibility during the direct evidential presentation

Frontiers in Communication
In courtroom interaction, the pervasive assumption that “seeing is believing” grants visual conduct, especially gazing behavior, a crucial role in shaping perceptions of testimonial credibility.
XianBing Ke, TianYi Zhu
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