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Symbolic Versus Substantive ESG Practices: A Systematic Review and Integrative Framework

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ESG reporting is widespread, but symbolic commitments do not always reflect substantive practices. This study conducts a systematic literature review of 62 empirical articles published between 2021 and 2025 to synthesize the main determinants and consequences of this disclosure–performance misalignment in ESG reporting (commonly referred to as
Cristina Alexandrina Ştefănescu, Andra Larisa Suciu   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutional Diversity in Banking and Economic Complexity

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we test whether institutional diversity in banking systems is beneficial to economic complexity, using data for Italian provinces in the period 1998–2017. We compute different indexes that consider diversity from an ownership, institutional, business model and competition point of view and find that higher diversity has a ...
Beniamino Pisicoli
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of Collateral on Microfinance Credit Rationing among Registered Smes in Kakamega County, Kenya

Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies
Purpose: To establish the influence of collateral on microfinance rationing of credit among registered SMEs in Kakamega County, Kenya Methodology/Approach: This study used causal and descriptive designs.
Tangara Thomas Tobias, Robert Egessa, Bulla Dennis   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Survey to assess the economic stability and mental health of households with people receiving enteral and parenteral nutrition

Nutrition in Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background The landscape of nutrition support faces challenges, including rising costs, product shortages, reimbursement gaps, and infusion providers closing. This nationwide survey aimed to describe the perceptions and attitudes related to costs, therapy access, and mental health among households with at least one family member requiring ...
Gabriela Gardner, Ryan Butcher, Brooks D. Cash   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Monetary policy and gender discrimination in the credit market

Journal of Government and Economics, 2023
The studies on monetary policy highlight that a contractionary policy reduces a firm's access to external funds. However, it is unknown whether it affects men and women equally. In this scenario, the aim of this paper is twofold.
Radeef Chundakkadan
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Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King, Martin R. McAinsh, Michael R. Roberts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Interactions Between Sustainable Development Goals Within and Between Policy Programmes: The Case of Kenya's Dairy Sector

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving Agenda 2030 depends on addressing interactions between the sustainable development goals (SDGs). In this paper, we conceptualize SDG interactions as synergies or trade‐offs, incoming or outgoing, and internal or external, and analyze how SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) interacts with other SDGs within and across policy programmes that support ...
Annita Jepchirchir Kirwa, Sylvia Karlsson‐Vinkhuyzen, Todd Andrew Crane, Art R. P. J. Dewulf   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crime and credit: Analyzing the impact of organized crime perceptions on loan restrictions

International Review of Economics & Finance
This study examines the impact of perceived organized crime on firms’ access to bank loans. The analysis relies on an original survey conducted by the Bank of Italy, involving a representative sample of approximately 1100 Italian firms across all sectors,
Antonio Fabio Forgione, Carlo Migliardo, Marco Spadaro   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Resilience and Sustainability Through Interlinkages of Gender, Disaster, and Climate Change: A Systematic Literature Review

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This systematic literature review examines gendered vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and policy translation in climate‐change induced disaster research using an intersectional lens in the Web of Science Database. Peer‐reviewed journal articles published in English between 2014 and 2024 focusing on gender, climate change, and disaster were
Tomo Kawane, Jebin Sultana Ahmed, Manman Wang, Divya Suresh, Naomi Kato, Weiwei Wang, Chuhan Wang, Rajib Shaw   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Monetary Transmission & Small Firm Credit Rationing: The Stablecoin Opportunity to Raise Business Credit Flows

FinTech
Credit rationing, especially prevalent for smaller firms, impedes economic growth. A central bank-aligned not-for-profit managed business-to-business “stablecoin” (“synthetic central bank digital currency”) providing trade credit liquidity can provide ...
Richard Simmons
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