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A Cypriot Story about Love and Hatred [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Middle Ages have their great love stories. We owe one of them to Peter I Lusignan, King of Cyprus. Married to Eleanor of Aragon, who bore him a son and a successor, he had a mistress pregnant with his child.
Dąbrowska, Małgorzata
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Board Networks and Corporate Carbon Emissions: A Cross‐Country Analysis of Causal Effects

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether board networks influence corporate carbon emissions and the strategic pathways through which firms decarbonize. Using a sample of 1952 firms across 48 countries from 2003 to 2020, we employ dynamic stacked regressions that exploit exogenous carbon‐regulation shocks affecting firms connected through shared third ...
Katarzyna Burzynska   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Economics of Water Resource Allocation: Valuation Methods and Policy Implications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In this chapter a ‘watershed economics approach’ that could be applied in Cyprus is proposed which is composed of two important stages. In Stage I economic valuation techniques are used to establish the economic value of the competing demands for surface
Groom, Ben, Koundouri, Phoebe
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Firms' Green Responses to Environmental Regulations: A Three‐Dimensional Concurrent Engineering Perspective

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates companies' responses to energy efficiency policies, focusing on mandatory and voluntary regulations that create a complex landscape for businesses to navigate. Using a sample of 1473 firms across 29 European countries (2002–2018), we explore the impact of legislation on green redesign—operationalized through ...
Thomas Alexopoulos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political Appointment of Executives, Green Action and Firm Performance: Evidence From the World Bank Enterprise Survey

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental sustainability and political influence increasingly shape corporate strategy, yet the link between politically appointed executives and firms' environmental actions remains underexplored. This study investigates whether political appointments to top executive positions influence the adoption of green action initiatives and how ...
Post Raj Pokharel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Symbolism: Examining the Impact of Sustainable Finance on Product Responsibility and the Moderating Role of Board Environmental Expertise—Evidence From UK Non‐Financial Firms

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the growing emphasis on sustainable finance in today's corporate landscape, its impact on product responsibility remains underexplored, particularly the moderating role of board environmental expertise. This study addresses these gaps by examining non‐financial companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, chosen for the UK's ...
Bright Akwasi Gyamfi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Middle East Justice & Reconciliation Initiative [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Report on Muslim/Christian faith-based reconciliation dialogue in Cyprus - this report includes a description of faith-based reconciliation methodology in relation to The Middle East Justice & Reconciliation ...
Brian Cox
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The Role of National Culture in ESG Risk Management: Empirical Evidence From STOXX Europe 600

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the role of national culture in influencing firms' Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risk management. Anchored to institutional theory, the research focuses on Hofstede's national cultural dimensions (power distance, individualism, long‐term orientation, and uncertainty avoidance) as factors associated with ...
Alberto Tonelli   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geothermal field of the transition area between the Anatolian Plate and the East European Platform

open access: yesЖурнал Белорусского государственного университета: География, геология, 2019
Heat flow data from the Eastern Mediterranean region indicates an extensive province of low heat flow, spreading over the whole basin of the Mediterranean to the east of Crete (Levantine Sea), Cyprus, and Northern Egypt.
Siamak Mansouri Far
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Learning communities : schools, parents and challenges for wider community involvement in schools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This presentation will focus, for the most part, on a project of parental involvement in a state primary school located in a predominantly working-class area in a Mediterranean country.
Keynote talk at ERNAPE Conference Nicosia Cyprus September 2007   +1 more
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