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ABSTRACT Digital transformation is increasingly reshaping how social enterprises organize work, engage stakeholders, and pursue social value. While prior research has examined digitalization in hybrid organizations, limited attention has been paid to how responsibility for inclusive digital transformation is enacted internally.
Riccardo Maiolini +2 more
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ABSTRACT ESG practices offer various benefits for family firms; however, there has been limited focus on how these practices can specifically advantage the owning family. To address this gap, we conduct a multiple‐case study of six Italian family firms.
Rafaela Gjergji +4 more
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ABSTRACT This study investigates the integration of circular economy (CE) and lean management (LM) as a strategic approach for enhancing corporate efficiency and sustainability. While CE emphasizes resource circularity, LM focuses on waste elimination and value maximization in production processes.
Pedro Carmona Marques +2 more
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Ethical Behaviour and Corporate Financing. The Case of ‘Legality Rating’
ABSTRACT The financial crisis has heightened awareness of ethical and legal issues in the business context. Corporate ethical behaviour is increasingly measured through sustainability ratings. Since 2012, in Italy, the introduction of a sustainability rating, namely the legality rating (LR), has served as an innovative ‘label’ for socially responsible ...
Federica Doni +3 more
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Breadth at the Helm: Generalist CEOs and Corporate ESG Performance‐Evidence From China
ABSTRACT Drawing on the Upper Echelons Theory and the Imprinting Theory, this study conjectures that generalist CEOs may have a stronger tendency to pursue environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. We perform multiple regression analyses with observations of Shanghai and Shenzhen A‐share listed companies from 2010 to 2023 in order to explore ...
Shanmei Luo +4 more
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ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between board independence and corporate social responsibility (CSR) outcomes. Based on legitimacy theory, we conducted a structured literature review of 167 archival studies to analyze the influence of board independence on CSR performance and reporting.
Patrick Velte
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Urban Criminology – Criminology of the Urban
Peršak, Nina, Tulumello, Simone
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ABSTRACT Mitigating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) decoupling is essential to advancing reliable sustainability disclosure and ensuring that ESG reporting fulfills its intended purpose. This study aims to provide critical insights into the organizational and contextual elements that could intensify or diminish ESG decoupling. Using a multi‐
Catarina Cepêda +2 more
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Seats at the Table, Shifts in the Actions: Board Gender Diversity and Climate Activism
ABSTRACT As regulatory and stakeholder pressures intensify, firms are increasingly expected to move beyond symbolic sustainability commitments towards corporate climate activism. This concept refers to the active institutionalisation of climate‐focused mechanisms such as external assurance, board oversight and climate‐linked incentives.
Md Tanvir Hamim, Rasim Simsek
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ABSTRACT This study investigates how internal governance design supports credible ESG performance by distinguishing between Incentive and Oversight Architectures. Using 13,993 firm‐year observations of US nonfinancial firms from 2018 to 2024, we estimate fixed effects and two‐step system GMM models.
Beyza Gürel +2 more
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