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ABSTRACT This research examines the extent of voluntary climate change disclosure by central governments worldwide through Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 targets and analyzes determinants that may influence this disclosure. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, a content analysis of SDG13 and its targets was applied to the voluntary ...
Ferdinando Di Carlo +3 more
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Democratization of Government Procurement
Grassroots organizations everyday are gaining importance in the field of economics. Its importance transcends beyond the mere exercise of acquiring profits, because their impact has the ability to help improve the situation of people who do not have a stable and dignified employment.
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ABSTRACT The rapid proliferation of chemicals and nanomaterials (CNMs) has resulted in significant cross‐sector innovation, delivering product enhancements such as improved UV protection and waterproof textiles. However, these advances present urgent challenges regarding human safety, environmental hazards, and regulatory compliance. Despite the recent
Alessandra Fiorucci +4 more
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African Twist of Circular Economy: Insights, Policies and Recommendations
ABSTRACT While the circular economy (CE) has gained traction, this paper argues that mainstream CE approaches risk being misaligned in the African context. Drawing on a mixed‐methods synthesis of empirical studies, policy documents and cross‐country examples, the study shows that Africa's CE transition is fragmented and uneven, leaving the continent at
Michael Odei Erdiaw‐Kwasie +4 more
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ABSTRACT The circular economy, dominated by capitalocentric, technocentric, and eco‐modernist discourses, risks perpetuating systemic injustice because of its limited consideration of the social and of what is possible. In this article, we examine how social justice can be embedded into circular business models (CBMs)—key drivers of the circular ...
Fernando C. Lit +3 more
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ABSTRACT This study advances a governance perspective on how firms implement, adopt, and routinize carbon accounting. Although prior research has identified several carbon accounting drivers and enablers, less is known about how these elements interact at the firm level to support the organizational embedding of carbon accounting.
Lei Ruan +4 more
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Corporate Political Ideology and Environmental Strategy: Evidence From US Toxic Releases
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether corporate political ideology shapes firms' environmental strategy and realized environmental performance. Using US political donation data matched to facility‐level toxic releases from the Toxics Release Inventory from 2000 to 2014, we measure corporate ideology by the share of firm and PAC contributions directed to
Mingyuan Chen +3 more
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ABSTRACT This paper investigates key barriers to the environmental, social, and economic sustainability of food quick commerce (Q‐commerce) logistics, using Iran as a representative emerging economy. This study is timely because it examines a rapidly evolving form of urban logistics in which speed, convenience, and sustainability are increasingly in ...
Seyed Hamid Hashemi Petrudi +3 more
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ABSTRACT The research investigates the creation and destruction of public value in the Italian waste management sector through stakeholder engagement and the quality of nonfinancial reporting (NFR). Drawing on stakeholder theory and public service logic, public value is conceptualized as the result of dynamic relational processes, where stakeholder ...
Paolo Esposito +2 more
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ABSTRACT Social and environmental accounting provides accountability mechanisms through which organisations communicate their sustainability practices to stakeholders. However, the increasing volume, complexity and diversity of sustainability disclosures make manual content analysis both labour‐intensive and susceptible to subjectivity.
Tarek Rana +6 more
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