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Powerful transformations: The experiences of higher education teaching staff who were first‐generation university students

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Historically, a university education has been seen primarily as a route for the middle classes to achieve professional qualifications while structural barriers have served to restrict entry to individuals from particular demographics. First‐generation students (FGS), often with low socio‐economic backgrounds, face multiple barriers to Higher ...
Helen Williams, Ellen‐Alyssa Gambles
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Corporate board vigilance and insolvency risk: a mediated moderation model of debt maturity and fixed collaterals

International Journal of Management and Economics, 2021
Studies indicate that a consistent rise in insolvency risk should be addressed at the strategic level. Vigilant boards can use leverage maturity structure as a tool to control insolvency risk.
Yassir Hussain Rana, Xuezhou Wen, Hussain Haroon, Saad Muhammad, Qalati Sikander Ali   +4 more
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Do ESG Leaders Achieve Higher Firm Financial Performance? The Influence of Women Directors and Controversial Industries

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the growing pressure on companies to achieve high ESG performance while minimising ESG controversies, this study investigates how ESG performance and ESG controversies jointly affect firm financial performance (measured as ROA and ROE), considering the effect of the presence of women directors and of operating in controversial versus non‐
Alice Alosi, Emilia Filippi
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The Influence of ESG Controversies on Financing Costs for European Companies: Does Culture Matter?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) controversies and corporate financing costs, focusing on the moderating effect of national culture. It analyzes European companies listed on the STOXX 600 Index from 2016 to 2023.
Souad Brinette, Marie‐Josèphe Rigobert, Slimane ED‐Dafali   +2 more
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Funding Costs and Liquidity Creation: Does ESG Play Any Role?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how banks' funding costs affect liquidity creation and whether environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance shapes this relationship. Using panel data for 136 U.S. commercial banks from 2005 to 2022, we show that higher funding costs are associated with lower liquidity creation, indicating that more expensive ...
Sattam Bin Kowibeen, Ashraf Khan, M. Kabir Hassan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Impact of EU Taxonomy on Pharmaceutical Firms' Performance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability has become a central concern in economic policy and corporate governance, increasingly formalised through regulatory frameworks of the European Union (EU). The European Commission has published the EU Taxonomy, which allows economic activities and their contribution to sustainability to be analysed, taking into account ...
Alicia Ramírez‐Orellana, Cristina Blanco González‐Tejero, Silvia Giralt Escobar, Antonio Garcia‐Amate   +3 more
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From Green Governance to Biodiversity Strategy: The Role of Environmentally Experienced Directors in Chinese Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how directors with environmental protection (EP) backgrounds influence corporate biodiversity concern (BIO) among Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2008 to 2023. Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory, we argue that directors' environmental expertise shapes firms' biodiversity strategies.
Chengming Huang, Sultan Sikandar Mirza, Chengwei Zhang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Capital market liberalization and corporate debt maturity structure: evidence from the Shanghai-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock connect

China Accounting and Finance Review
This paper takes the Shanghai-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect as a quasi-natural experiment and investigates the impact of capital market liberalization on the corporate debt maturity structure.
Jun Huang, Haijie Mo, Tianshu Zhang
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From Board Governance to SDGs Integration: ESG Performance and Controversies in the MENA Region

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how board characteristics influence firms' integration of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), focusing on the mediating role of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and the moderating effect of ESG controversies.
Waleed M. Alahdal, Ines Kateb, Said Elbanna   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

ESG Decoupling Phenomenon: A Systematic and Bibliometric Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ESG decoupling, defined as the gap between a firm's ESG disclosures and its actual practices, poses a critical challenge to corporate sustainability. Using the PRISMA protocol, 451 articles were selected for a comprehensive bibliometric and systematic literature review to map the intellectual structure and thematic evolution of the research on
Maryam Laeeq, Farida Akhtar, Han Lin Shang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source