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Independent Female Directors and Green Innovation in China: The Moderating Roles of Ownership Structure and Market Competition

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of independent female directors (IFDs) on green innovation (GI) among Chinese‐listed firms from 2008 to 2023. Additionally, we investigate the moderating effects of ownership structure and market competition on the relationship between IFD and GI.
Muhammad Usman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Women’s Movement for Gender Quotas in Nigeria and Ghana

open access: yesModern Africa, 2018
The third wave of the international women’s movement expressly broadened the focus of women’s activism to incorporate the clamour for more political representation of women.
Ronke I. Ako-Nai, Babatunde F. Obamamoye
doaj   +1 more source

Electoral Politics: Making Quotas Work for Women [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The goal of reducing gender inequalities in political representation has been elusive in many different kinds of political systems, even though women have made substantial progress in other areas, such as education, employment and healthcare.
Tajali, Mona, Hoodfar, Homa
core  

Default Effect in ESG Investment: When a Recommendation Goes a Long Way

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Individual investors display a positive attitude toward ESG investments but typically fail to act upon it. We report results from a preregistered online experiment testing a default option on 1050 US investors examining the mechanisms driving the effectiveness of default options in promoting ESG investments.
Sai Sravanthi Ramadugula   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The problem of gender quotas: women's representatives on Timor-Leste's suku councils

open access: yes, 2011
This article examines the experiences of women occupying reserved seats on the suku councils of Timor-Leste (each of which represents a number of small villages).
Cummins, Deborah, Deborah Cummins
core   +1 more source

Gender Quotas and International Reputation

open access: yes, 2021
The global spread of electoral gender quotas has been characterized as one of the most significant institutional developments of the last 30 years. Many of the countries that have adopted these laws designed to increase women's political representation ...
Bush, Sarah Sunn   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Do Governance Structures Drive Green Building Adoption? A Machine Learning Approach With Random Forests

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of firms' propensity to adopt green buildings in the Euro Stoxx 300 and the S&P 500 indices, during 2012–2023. Using random forest binary classifiers, we assess the relative importance of financial, sectoral, geographic, and climate governance predictors and uncover nonlinear relationships often overlooked ...
María del Carmen Valls Martínez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

CAN GENDER QUOTAS BREAK DOWN NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES? EVIDENCE FROM CHANGES IN ELECTORAL RULES [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we analyse the effect of gender quotas on women involvement in political activity using a rich data set providing information on all Italian local administrators elected from 1985 to 2007.
Rosetta Lombardo   +2 more
core  

Consumers' Intention to Use Circular Business Models: A Configurational Analysis

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular business models (CBMs) integrate ecological sustainability and resource efficiency into core business strategies, but their success depends on consumers' intention to use. Grounded in expectancy–value theory, this study investigates how product‐related factors (perceived usefulness, convenience, value for money, and performance risk ...
Christof Falkenberg   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kvinner i styrer i Europa: Kjønnskvotering og anbefalinger for god selskapsstyring som virkemidler for endring

open access: yesMagma
De siste 20 årene har det blitt introdusert forskjellige virkemidler for å øke andelen kvinner i styrer i Europa. Dette omfatter varianter av kjønnskvotering samt andre virkemidler som anbefalinger om god selskapsstyring ofte kalt corporate governance ...
Hilde Fjellvær, Cathrine Seierstad
doaj   +1 more source

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