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JUDICIAL SELF-GOVERNANCE REFORM IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: CURRENT CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS – THROUGH THE LENS OF POLISH EXPERIENCE

Pravni Vjesnik
The independence of the judiciary is one of the key preconditions of the rule of law. To function as a fundamental component of the system of horizontal accountability and, consequently, a critical factor in strengthening the rule of law, the judiciary ...
Igor Milinković, Katarzyna Miaskowska-Daszkiewicz   +1 more
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Carbon Footprint of Bank Loans: Opportunities and Risk Implications in the Banking Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether the carbon footprint of bank loan portfolios influences bank stability, profitability and cost efficiency and whether regulatory quality moderates these relationships. Using a balanced panel of 33 countries from 2005 to 2018, the analysis combines banking‐sector indicators from the World Bank Global Financial ...
Honglei Wang, Chen Lin, Kingsley Imandojemu, Omozele Lynda Showunmi, Romanus Osabohien, Felix Orole   +5 more
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Board Ethnic Diversity and the Value Relevance of Antibribery and Corruption Disclosure

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Antibribery and corruption disclosure (ABCD) has traditionally been conceptualised as a compliance‐oriented reporting practice. However, whether and under what conditions such disclosure contributes to strategic value creation remains insufficiently understood.
Ali Meftah Gerged, Sharmin Shabnam Rahman   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pathways to Carbon Neutrality: The Role of Environmental Governance, Environmental Technology, Renewable Energy Transition, and Economic Policy Uncertainty in Africa

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As climate change and environmental deterioration continue to escalate due to substantial CO2 emissions, nations worldwide are implementing approaches to alleviate CO2 emissions and accomplish carbon neutrality (CNE) goals. The current study examined CNE objectives for five selected nations in Africa, spanning from 1990 to 2022.
John Wiredu, Emmanuel Nketiah, Simplice A. Asongu, Kingsley Takyi Agyei, Zijie Fan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discursive Governance and Development Goals: A Performative Theory of Corporate Purpose in Sustainability Discourse

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study theorises and empirically tests performative purpose alignment theory (PPAT), which conceptualises corporate purpose as a performative artefact materialised through discursive and multimodal signals. To operationalise this, we introduced the SDG–Purpose Alignment Index (SPAI), a computational construct that quantifies the thematic ...
Augustine Okeke, Ifeanyi Ugbebor
wiley   +1 more source

Once again about a corruption disciplinary offense and issues of dismissal due to loss of trust of a civil servant

Административное и муниципальное право, 2023
The author describes the concept of a disciplinary corruption offense, this issue is important from the point of view of the application of various disciplinary measures to counter corruption. The author notes that the importance of such a category as "corruption disciplinary offense" is predetermined by its functionality in determining methods of ...
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Reclaiming Anatomy as Method: From Morphological Reasoning to Clinical Relevance

Clinical Anatomy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, molecular biology and omics technologies have profoundly reshaped biomedical research, with genomics, proteomics, and other high‐throughput approaches dominating scientific agendas and funding priorities. Within this molecular paradigm, however, the anatomical sciences face an epistemic and institutional tension: morphology,
Katia Cortese, Marco Frascio
wiley   +1 more source

A Cautious Approach Towards the Application of Team Misconduct - South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union v Makgopela (2023) 44 ILJ 1229 (LAC)

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal
The reality faced by the labour market is that employees are prone to committing acts of misconduct from time to time at the workplace. In case of an unexplained stock loss at the workplace however, it becomes difficult for the employer to show on a ...
Scelo Sibiya
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THE INSTITUTE OF REVOCATION OF AN ORDER FOR IMPOSITION OF A DISCIPLINARY PENALTY DISMISSAL ACCORDING TO THE LABOR CODE

THE LAW AND THE BUSINESS IN THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: Conference proceedings of the 3-rd National Scientific Conference, 2020
The paper examines the institute for revocation of issued by the employer order for impo-sition of disciplinary sanction dismissal, which terminates also the employment contract - on employer's initiative - according to the legal frame of the Labour code.
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On the defence of responsible human judgement in peer review

The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
Abstract Peer review is essential for scientific progress. When it works well, it combines expertise, fairness, proportionality, skepticism, generosity, and discretion. When it fails, it becomes a theatre for egotistical display, laziness, coercion, and, lately, reliance on artificial intelligence tools. Editors, reviewers, and authors must join forces
João B. P. Soares, Thomas A. Adams II
wiley   +1 more source