When Diversity Meets Family Owners: ESG Performance in European Publicly Listed Firms
ABSTRACT This study investigates how the interaction between board diversity and family as owners shapes firms' ESG performance. Prior research has established that board diversity fosters more informed, ethical, and stakeholder‐oriented decision‐making, thereby enhancing corporate legitimacy and responsiveness to diverse stakeholder expectations ...
Giorgia Maria D'Allura +3 more
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Betting shops and crime: is there a relationship? [PDF]
Gambling and its link with criminal activity is an area of growing research interest. Studies from various regions worldwide have suggested an association between criminal activity and easily accessible gambling, yet, despite growth in the commercial ...
Griffiths, MD
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ABSTRACT This paper examines how mergers and acquisitions (M&As) affect post‐deal sustainability outcomes by introducing the novel construct of ESG divergence, defined as the distance between acquirer and target firms' pre‐deal ESG profiles. While M&As are increasingly used to accelerate sustainability integration, their ESG impact remains ambiguous ...
Ilaria Galavotti, Donatella Depperu
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Students\u27 use of personal technology in the classroom: analyzing the perceptions of the digital generation [PDF]
Faculty frequently express concerns about students’ personal use of information and communication technologies in today’s university classrooms. As a requirement of a graduate research methodology course in a university in Ontario, Canada, the authors ...
Kolpin, Samantha Lynn +6 more
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Charting Resource Efficiency Practices Across European Firms: A Multilevel Analysis
ABSTRACT The circular economy (CE) is a key sustainability paradigm, prompting European Union (EU) organizations and policymakers to move beyond linear production and consumption models. The study aimed to assess the implementation patterns of nine CE activities among EU companies and to explore how the implementation of these CE activities relates to ...
Sofia Gomes +2 more
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Queer Criminology (New Directions in Critical Criminology) C. Buist and E. Lenning. London: Routledge (2016) 144pp. £100.00hb ISBN 9781138824362Criminology and Queer Theory: Dangerous Bedfellows? (Critical Criminological Perspectives) M. Ball. London: Macmillan (2016) 262pp. €94.94hb ISBN 978‐1‐137‐45328‐0 [PDF]
Jo Phoenix
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ABSTRACT This study investigates the causal effects of mandated ESG disclosure on two key corporate financial outcomes: earnings quality and cost of capital. Using a panel dataset of 210 publicly listed firms from eight European Union countries between 2015 and 2024, the study exploits cross‐country variation in the timing and intensity of ESG ...
Isik Akin, Meryem Akin
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In this paper, I examine how the criminology of genocide suffers from problems characteristic of the first generation of genocide scholarship, such as sweeping comparison, narrow legalism, and inattention to genocidal processes.
Andrew Woolford
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International Conference in Critical Criminology 'Criminologie a sud. Prospettive meridiane della questione criminale', organised by the journal 'Studi sulla questione Criminale'. University of Bologna, 11-12 September 2023.
Comitè de Redacció
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Learning to Escape: Prison Education, Rehabilitation and the Potential for Transformation [PDF]
This article examines motivations behind participation in education based on interviews with Irish prisoners. It begins by considering the relationship between education and rehabilitation, especially the latter’s re-emergence in a more authoritarian ...
Behan, Cormac
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