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Risking Border Instability: the Russian-Estonian Case
Международная аналитика, 2020 In international relations, the last three decades have been marked by national and institutional fragmentation. The fate of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, and the regrettable way that events played out (especially in the former case), could befall ...
P. Jolicoeur, F. Labarre
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study aims to uncover the empirical relationship between environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and the growth of 19,956 unlisted firms in the East Europe and Central Asia (EECA) region. While the existing literature focuses on ESG performance in listed firms, there is a gap in understanding the growth dynamics of unlisted ...
Nosheen Rasool +3 more
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Sustainability Performance, National Culture, and Corporate Financial Performance
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Given the increasing global importance of sustainability performance and reporting, along with prior mixed results in the literature, we examine the impact of country‐specific attributes on sustainability reporting. Specifically, we examine the impact of national culture and legal origin on sustainability performance and how national culture ...
Jagjit Saini +2 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As far as we know, recent knowledge on adverse environmental impacts on firms' green behaviour, innovativeness and performance is limited, including scant empirical analysis. Theoretical gaps, particularly in ecological economics and environmental management, can also be seen in this context.
Viktor Prokop +5 more
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Nature Conservation in Estonia Using the Example of Eagles
Пернатые хищники и их охрана, 2018 National nature protection on the territory of the present Estonia as well as in Europe started to take shape about the end of the 19th century. The first Estonian nature conservation act was passed in 1935 and the more general nature safeguarding act in
Katrin Kaldma
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Atmospheric transmittance and its long-term changes in Estonia
Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 1997 Atmospheric transmittance as a characteristic describing the state of the atmosphere has been studied on the basis of direct solar radiation data obtained from Tõravere Actinometric Station (Estonia) for the period 1955 to 1995.
Vivi Russak, Anne Joeveer, Ain Kallis
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The Impact of Outward FDI on Home-Country Employment in a Low-Cost Transition Economy [PDF]
, 2007 The current extensive literature on the home-country employment effect of FDI focuses almost exclusively on the case of investments from high-income and high labour cost home countries.
Masso, Jaan +2 more
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The Norwegian legacy of resisting formal grading
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Norway has a longstanding tradition of prohibiting formal grading in primary education. This paper traces a century of restrictive grading policies and their associated discourses. Using Bacchi's (2009) What's the Problem Represented to be framework, we present an analysis of the policy documents that have underpinned Norwegian assessment ...
Henning Fjørtoft +2 more
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Geopolitics: The seen and unseen in small state foreign policy [PDF]
Journal of Regional Security, 2020 Geopolitics, a combination of geography and politics by default resembles the power politics of large states. As small states have little resources to pursue power-based foreign policy, one can wonder if the geopolitics of small states matter. This paper
Sulg Mari-Liis, Crandall Matthew
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