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Sensemaking and CSR Character in Multinational Corporations: A Comparative Study of Headquarters and Subsidiary Practices in the UAE

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship assumes that organizational consistency signals effectiveness, there remains a knowledge gap about how MNCs navigate competing institutional logics between headquarters and subsidiaries. This study investigates how managerial sensemaking mediates the effects of institutional pressures on ...
Charles Antony Diab, Wendy Stubbs
wiley   +1 more source

Policy Uncertainty and Precautionary Savings [PDF]

open access: yes
In 1997 Chancellor Kohl proposed a major pension reform: he pushed the law through Parliament explaining that the German PAYG system had become unsustainable.
Francesco Giavazzi, Michael F. McMahon
core  

Board Independence and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Literature Review With a Focus on Country Effects

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between board independence and corporate social responsibility (CSR) outcomes. Based on legitimacy theory, we conducted a structured literature review of 167 archival studies to analyze the influence of board independence on CSR performance and reporting.
Patrick Velte
wiley   +1 more source

Trends in the determination of the civil from criminal liability

open access: yesJournal on European History of Law, 2012
In the present paper the author analyses the basic legal features of civil liability (liability for damages arising from torts or breach of contractual duties), delimitating it from criminal liability, taking into account theoretical considerations ...
József Szalma
doaj  

Law, politics, and finance [PDF]

open access: yes
The authors assess three established theories about the historical determinants of financial development. They also propose an augmented version of one of these theories.
Beck, Thorsten   +2 more
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Governance Drivers of Fossil Fuel Divestment: Evidence From Global Banks

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change poses increasing transition risks for the banking sector, as financial institutions remain exposed to fossil fuel activities despite growing sustainability commitments. This study examines whether corporate governance influences banks' decisions to adopt fossil fuel divestment policies.
Rosella Carè   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

GERMAN CIVIL LAW IN 19TH CENTURY BRAZIL: TEIXEIRA DE FREITAS AND THE HISTORICAL SCHOOL OF LAW

open access: yesRevista Opinião Jurídica, 2022
Objective: From the understanding provided by the concept of cultural translation, the proposal of the present investigation focused on dimensioning the influence and circulation of ideas from the German Historical School and from the Jurisprudence of Concepts in the intellectual development of the jurist Augusto Teixeira de Freitas, whose work shaped ...
Gabriela Back Lombardi   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Industrial Actions in Germany - Realistic in an International Context? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In the EU, transborder collective action exists in theory but not in practice. Which would be the conditions to cooperate and even fight together? One should know each other, especially the underlying economic interest, the institutions, the traditions ...
Däubler, Wolfgang
core   +1 more source

Slip versus dilation tendency parameter space as a tool for prospecting structurally controlled geothermal systems in greenfield: insights from the greater Ruhr region

open access: yesDeep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This study highlights that with the static and time‐dependent evolution of slip versus dilation tendency parameter space, structurally controlled deep geothermal systems can be selected within areas of higher permeability and lower seismic hazard. Abstract Faults play a vital role in the Earth's hydraulic system by facilitating fluid flow when dilating
Michal Kruszewski   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Performance assessment of a potential underground thermal storage facility: Case study of the closed mine Prosper‐Haniel in the Ruhr coal mining area in Germany

open access: yesDeep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates the feasibility of an underground closed‐loop thermal storage facility at a post‐mining site, intended for seasonal heat energy storage. Its principal design shows water flow directions in winter and summer (1, 2), heat pumps (3), an upper water reservoir (4), and connecting pipes (5).
Dmytro Rudakov, Oleksandr Inkin
wiley   +1 more source

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