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Sentience in cephalopod molluscs: an updated assessment

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article evaluates the evidence for sentience – the capacity to have feelings – in cephalopod molluscs: octopus, cuttlefish, squid, and nautilus. Our framework includes eight criteria, covering both whether the animal's nervous system could support sentience and whether their behaviour indicates sentience.
Alexandra K. Schnell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Benefit Corporations: The Moral Legitimacy That Requires More Rules

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why Italian for‐profit firms convert to Benefit Corporation status and how they navigate the ensuing hybridization. Survey data from 118 companies are interpreted through a pragmatic and moral legitimacy lens. Results show that the main trigger is pragmatic legitimacy: managers seek to strengthen trust with internal and ...
Laura Rocca   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Sustainability Assessment in the Construction Sector: A Multidimensional Index for Decision Making in Decentralised Economies

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article evaluates the average business performance of construction firms across Spain's 17 autonomous communities within a decentralised governance framework. A regional composite sustainability index is developed, integrating economic, social and environmental intensity indicators.
Francisco José Castillo‐Díaz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualizing the EU model of governance in world politics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
While the field of EU studies has generated a rich theoretical literature, the usefulness of analyses of the EU for broader processes of regional governance has been questioned.
Rosamond, Ben
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European Ports as Energy Hubs: A Sustainability Index to Assess Territorial Development

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The capacity of ports to act as energy hubs is increasingly relevant in light of sustainability challenges and global crises like the Ukraine conflict, the COVID‐19 pandemic and energy scarcity. Numerous international and national initiatives are shaping the future of port development to address environmental and economic concerns.
Paolo Mazzocchi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The interface between the area of freedom, security and justice and the common foreign and security policy of the European Union: legal constraints to political objectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper argues that the objective of increased foreign policy coherence, as expressed in the Treaty of Lisbon and the Stockholm Programme of the European Union (EU), faces significant legal obstacles.
Van Elsuwege, Peter
core   +1 more source

Charting the Course: Real‐World Application of Sustainability and Innovation Principles in the Portuguese Blue Economy Firms

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The blue economy has emerged as a key sector for linking sustainability and innovation, yet existing research has largely overlooked how firms operationalize these processes in practice. This study addresses that gap by asking: How do Portuguese blue economy firms embed sustainability‐oriented innovation (SOI) into their strategies, and what ...
Jennifer Nicole Elston   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Twin Transition in Practice. Digital Technologies, Sustainability, and the Role of Family Ownership in Europe

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether and to what extent digital technologies (DTs) foster the adoption of environmental sustainability (ES), and how this relationship is moderated by family ownership. Using data from approximately 14,000 European firms surveyed in the Flash Eurobarometer 486, we estimate a recursive simultaneous equation model via a ...
Francesco Aiello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When TCFD Meets TNFD: Can It Revolutionize Corporate Sustainable Risk Management?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid escalating environmental risks, this study explores the novel integration of the Task Force on Climate‐related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the Taskforce on Nature‐related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) as a transformative approach to corporate sustainable risk management.
Xiaoyu Liu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ensuring Energy Security in Europe: The EU between a Market-based and a Geopolitical Approach. EU Diplomacy Paper 03/2013 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The question of energy security of the European Union (EU) has come high on the European political agenda since the mid-2000s as developments in the international energy sector have increasingly been perceived as a threat by the EU institutions and by ...
Metais, Raphaël
core  

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