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Complex Firms, Controversial Outcomes: Global Evidence on ESG Failures and Remedies

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine whether business complexity increases firms' exposure to negative environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes, specifically ESG controversies, using a global panel of firms from 37 countries over the period 2002–2021.
Abongeh A. Tunyi, Ali Uyar, Nejla Ould Daoud Ellili, Abdullah S. Karaman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the Paradox of Decentralisation by Devolution: An Evaluation of Public Healthcare Service Delivery in Developing Countries

Eastern African Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
Decentralisation by devolution has emerged as a strategic approach in developing countries to enhance public healthcare service delivery through increased local responsiveness and community participation.
Adam Matiko Charles, Africanus Calist Sarwatt, Omary Magasha Yusuf   +2 more
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Intelligent Manufacturing, Industrial Agglomeration, and Green and Low‐Carbon Development: A Nonlinear Path Test Based on the Theory of Ecological Modernization

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing upon ecological modernization theory as the analytical framework, this study employs macro‐level longitudinal tracking data covering China's major regions as research samples. It measures the green and low‐carbon development (GLCD) of manufacturing from the four dimensions—“carbon reduction, pollution mitigation, ecological expansion ...
Deng Wang, Xin Hua, Chante Jian Ding, Abdullahi D. Ahmed, Yue Liu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decentralization and regional economic disparities [PDF]

This paper analyses the impact of both fiscal and political decentralisation on regional productivity inequalities. The study of the influence of decentralisation on economic growth has received some attention in recent years, but very few studies deal ...
Rapun, Manuel, Ezcurra, Roberto, Gil, Carlos, Pascual, Padro   +3 more
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Past and Future of Sustainability Indicator Research in Agribusiness: A Bibliometric and Forecasting Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study offers a forward‐looking assessment of sustainability indicator research in agribusiness by integrating bibliometric mapping with ARIMA‐based forecasting. Analysing 403 Scopus‐indexed articles, bibliographic‐coupling analysis identifies three contemporary thematic domains: Techno‐Managerial Sustainability, Systemic and ...
Marcelo Kratz Mendes, Olga Cam, Aurora Carneiro Zen, Roger de Bem Jaeger, Daniela Callegaro‐de‐Menezes, Juliana Matos de Meira   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

DIFFERENT APPROACHES AND MEASURES OF FISCAL DECENTRALISATION

Proceedings of the 49th International Academic Conference, Dubrovnik, 2019
Once the phenomenon of fiscal decentralisation was appropriately operationalised and measured, it has become evident that not many countries had absolutely self-financing sub-national governments. The evidence shows that, in many developed countries, fiscal decentralisation has occurred almost exclusively through devolution of expenditure activities ...
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Addressing the Energy Trilemma: The Role of Entrepreneurship, Regulation, and Climate Finance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Balancing energy security, energy equity, and environmental sustainability has become increasingly challenging as economies pursue low‐carbon growth amid climate risk and persistent disparities in access to modern energy. Although entrepreneurship is widely recognized as a driver of innovation, its role in addressing the energy trilemma ...
Kingsley Imandojemu, Aliyu Akorede Rufai, Felix Orole, Romanus Osabohien   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Capabilities to Competitive Greening: Managerial Commitment and Green Shared Vision as Serial Mediators in Energy‐Sector SMEs

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on dynamic capabilities view and upper echelons theory, this study shows how energy‐sector SMEs convert dynamic capabilities into green competitive advantage. We theorize that sensing–seizing–reconfiguring routines are associated with green competitive advantage only when top managers visibly prioritize environmental goals and foster a
Anna Chwiłkowska‐Kubala, Szymon Cyfert, Kamila Malewska, Michał Chomicki, Maciej Mitręga   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling tax decentralisation and regional growth [PDF]

The aim of this paper is to determine a theoretical linkage between tax decentralisation and regional growth. For this purpose a two fiscal tiers growth model is specified.
Ramiro Gil-Serrate, Julio López-Laborda
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Fiscal decentralisation and economic growth: Is there a relationship?

New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017
The main objective of this paper is to study the concept of fiscal decentralisation and the influence of fiscal decentralisation on economic growth in selected European Union countries during the period of 2004 – 2014. Academic interest in fiscal decentralisation began in the 1950s, when the original Tiebout (1950) article on the theory of local ...
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