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Beyond Profit: Do Mergers and Acquisitions and the Board of Directors Increase the Environmental, Social, and Governance?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between mergers and acquisitions (M&A), board characteristics, and ESG performance in BRICS companies, considering the moderating role of sectoral sensitivity. The study analyzes 11,402 observations from 2293 BRICS companies, employing Two‐Stage Least Squares (2SLS) to address endogeneity and logistic ...
Geovane Camilo dos Santos, Camila Lima Bazani, Pablo Zambra   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Cost of Debt: Evidence From European Firms Under Mandatory and Voluntary Disclosure

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Considering the growing attention to sustainability and the increasing regulatory pressure in the European landscape, this study evaluates whether greenhouse gas emissions affect firms' cost of debt. A panel regression was conducted from 2021 to 2024 on two samples of European firms.
Daniela Cicchini, Pasquale De Luca, Salvatore Principale, Chiara Signore   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The HIV Env-mediated fusion reaction

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, 2003
The current general model of HIV viral entry involves the binding of the trimeric viral envelope glycoprotein gp120/gp41 to cell surface receptor CD4 and chemokine co-receptor CXCR4 or CCR5, which triggers conformational changes in the envelope proteins.
Gallo, Stephen A., Finnegan, Catherine M., Viard, Mathias, Raviv, Yossef, Dimitrov, Antony, Rawat, Satinder S., Puri, Anu, Durell, Stewart, Blumenthal, Robert   +8 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Exploring the Governance–Disclosure Nexus: Board Structures and ESG Disclosures in South Africa

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how governance structures such as board composition and board functions influence environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting among listed South African firms. This study examines 90 public listed companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange between 2012 and 2022.
Henriette Elsabe Scholtz, Suzanne Kieviet   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of Partial and Complete Nitrification in SBR System for Use in Side Stream Processes [PDF]

آب و فاضلاب, 2012
Use of low-cost biological methods for ammonia removal as partial nitrification has been attracted by many environmental engineering researchers in recent years.In this study the removal of ammonia in high concentration sewage based on both complete and ...
Ali Dehnoei, Hossein Ganjidoust, Bita Ayati, Giti Emtiazi   +3 more
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Incorporation of chimeric HIV-SIV-Env and modified HIV-Env proteins into HIV pseudovirions

Virology, 2007
Low level incorporation of the viral glycoprotein (Env) into human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) particles is a major drawback for vaccine strategies against HIV/AIDS in which HIV particles are used as immunogen. Within this study, we have examined two strategies aimed at achieving higher levels of Env incorporation into non-infectious pseudovirions ...
Devitt, Gerard, Emerson, Vanessa, Holtkotte, Denise, Pfeiffer, Tanya, Pisch, Thorsten, Bosch, Valerie   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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

Forecast verification for extreme value distributions with an application to probabilistic peak wind prediction

, 2012
Predictions of the uncertainty associated with extreme events are a vital component of any prediction system for such events. Consequently, the prediction system ought to be probabilistic in nature, with the predictions taking the form of probability ...
Friederichs, Petra, Thorarinsdottir, Thordis L.   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Zero Deforestation Commitments and Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies: An Analysis of Their Role in Mitigating Deforestation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the role of corporate zero‐deforestation commitments (ZDCs) and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) enabling technologies in mitigating deforestation. Drawing on data from 110 companies included in the Forest 500 dataset, the research explores whether sustainability commitments and digital innovation influence firms' deforestation ...
Valentina Beretta, Eugenia Parodi, Celine Buschmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Constraints and Corporate Sustainability Performance: Do Climate Exposure and People's Climate Attention Matter?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between financial constraints and a firm's sustainability performance. Our empirical analysis utilises a panel of 40,445 observations from 9466 listed non‐financial firms across 44 countries, spanning the period from 2002 to 2019.
Boying Xu, Ruth Owusu‐Mensah, Daniel Gyimah   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source