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Sustainability‐Focused or Unfocused CSR Committees: Which Ones Are Beneficial for Corporate Environmental Performance?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) committees' mandates, the characteristics of their chairs, and corporate environmental performance. Employing the whole sample of Italian industrial firms listed on Euronext Milan, we find that only sustainability‐focused CSR committees are positively ...
Kevin Pirazzi Maffiola, Cecilia Correggi, Domenico Rocco Cambrea, Paolo Di Toma   +3 more
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Trends in the development of the Russian asset management industry

Путеводитель предпринимателя, 2020
The authors analyze the problems ofdevelopment of Russian asset management industry, namely the market of pension savings and determine the directions of its improvement.
E. I. Kulikova, B. B. Rubtsov
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التأمين على أموال الجمعيات الخيرية والأعيان الوقفية Insurance of Charitable Funds and Endowment Objects [PDF]

مجلة كلية الدراسات الإسلامية والعربية للبنات بدمنهور
إن الوقف في الإسلام بالمنزلة العظيمة، وهو الصدقة الباقية لصاحبها، وقد رغَّب النبي ﷺ في الوقف حتى لم يكن أحد من أصحاب رسول الله ﷺ ذو مقدرة إلا وقف، وقد توسعت الدراسات الفقهية المتعلقة بالأوقاف في هذا الزمن لاتساع حياة الناس وما استجدَّ من نوازل، وصدرت ...
منيره بنت عبدالله بن إبراهيم السليمان
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Whose Sustainability Counts? Board Governance, ESG Ratings, and Sustainable Development Goals: Evidence on the ESG–SDG Wedge

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Institutional investors increasingly rely on ESG ratings to evaluate financially material sustainability risks, while governments promote corporate alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Because these frameworks differ substantially in capital market salience and monitoring intensity, board oversight may not ...
Mohamed Hegazy, Diego Prior, Mahmoud Zarea   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal Hedging and Pricing of Equity-Linked Life Insurance Contracts in a Discrete-Time Incomplete Market

Journal of Probability and Statistics, 2011
We present a method of optimal hedging and pricing of equity-linked life insurance products in an incomplete discrete-time financial market. A pure endowment life insurance contract with guarantee is used as an example.
Norman Josephy, Lucia Kimball, Victoria Steblovskaya   +2 more
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Climate Risk and Real Estate Markets in the EU: Institutional Control Through Regulation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is increasingly reshaping the economic foundations of asset markets, yet its implications for the estate sector remain unevenly understood, particularly when institutional and financial mechanisms mediate risk transmission. While a growing body of evidence links climate vulnerability to property valuation and market behaviour ...
Qiulin Yang, Xin Xu, Kingsley Imandojemu, Felix Orole, Romanus Osabohien   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can major public health emergencies increase the participation of commercial insurance? Evidence from China

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundPublic health emergencies have a lasting impact on a country's economic and social development. However, commercial insurance can disperse these negative consequences and reduce risk losses.MethodBased on the Chinese Household Tracking Survey ...
Yiqiu Wang, Chong Guo, Yang Xu, Meng Xie
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Consumer Mobile Phone Recycling Behaviour: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mobile phone recycling has received increasing attention from scholars and practitioners due to its environmental, social, and economic impacts. However, knowledge about consumer mobile phone (MP) recycling behaviour is fragmented, making it challenging to develop effective strategies to promote this behaviour. This study follows the Preferred
Xinru (Angie) Jiang, Ninh Nguyen, Steven Greenland, Jacqueline K. Eastman, Chrystie Watson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does online payment promote the purchase of commercial insurance? Evidence from China

International Review of Economics & Finance
China is a major insurance country, but the insurance density and insurance depth have long been lower than the world average. It has been found in literature that the rapid development of online payments in China promotes individuals' consumption.
Lifei Gao, Dongni Wang, Guojun Wang, Hao Shi   +3 more
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Crafted Responsibility: How Handmade Language Shapes Social Media Engagement for Socially (Ir)Responsible Luxury Fashion Brands

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research examines how the disclosure of production cues interacts with corporate social responsibility cues to influence social media engagement in luxury fashion. Two complementary field studies analyse marketer‐generated Facebook posts from luxury fashion brands, providing large‐scale empirical evidence of a real‐world impact on ...
Tuba Degirmenci, Frank Mathmann, Gary Mortimer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source