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A Civil Law State in a Common Law Nation, A Civil Law Nation with a Common Law Touch: Judicial Review and Precedent in Louisiana and Argentina

open access: yes, 2021
The state of Louisiana and the country of Argentina have, at their base, a civil law legal tradition. Yet, both jurisdictions use a decentralized court system typically associated with the Anglo-American common law tradition.
Handy, Christopher, Legarre, Santiago
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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

Global Energy Corporations and Climate Change: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions in Shaping Climate Change Risk Disclosure

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines climate change risk disclosure in the global energy sector, where firms face intense stakeholder scrutiny and legitimacy pressures. We develop a novel domain‐specific textual analysis measure to capture climate change risk disclosures, improving on prior approaches based on generic environmental terminology.
Khaldoon Albitar, Ali Meftah Gerged
wiley   +1 more source

Interaction of Administrative and Civil Law: The Experience of Russian and German Convergence of Public and Private Law

open access: yesJournal of Foreign Legislation and Comparative Law, 2023
Russian and German law are based on the principle of dividing law into private and public. Such a division of law, on the one hand, is quite customary to these legal systems; on the other hand, the boundaries of public and private law are very mobile.
openaire   +1 more source

Innovating for Net‐Zero: Collaborative and Digital Decarbonisation Strategies in Sunset Industries' Global Value Chains

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global net‐zero ambitions require transformative strategies to decarbonise carbon‐intensive global value chains (GVCs). This study examines how multinational enterprises (MNEs) in sunset industries integrate carbon capture technologies (CCT) with operational and supply chain dynamics (OSCD) to advance decarbonisation.
Muhammad Mustafa Kamal   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tensions of Sustainability Logics: Performance of a Company Utilizing a Sustainable Business Model

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, companies have used sustainable business models to gain a competitive advantage. However, there are tensions due to the inconsistency between social, environmental, and economic logic in sustainable business models, making it difficult for companies to change. To understand the existing tensions and interactions between logics,
Ann‐Kristin Thienemann
wiley   +1 more source

Stock Exchange ESG Disclosure Guidance and Corporate Carbon Mitigation: International Evidence

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the tangible impact of the adoption of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure guidance by stock exchanges on corporate carbon mitigation, focusing on six major frameworks: the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), the Task Force on Climate Related ...
Jiamian Yan, Le Luo, Nuraddeen Nuhu
wiley   +1 more source

On the German History of Method in Civil Law in Five Systems

open access: yesGerman Law Journal, 2016
AbstractGermany is the country of legal methodology. No other country saw such an intense academic discourse on the question of what jurists are able, allowed, and supposed to do when interpreting and applying the law. This German peculiarity is tightly linked to the history of the German Civil Code (BGB).
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Does Climate Risk Affect Employment Decisions? International Evidence

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effect of climate risk on corporate employment decisions. Using a large sample from 41 countries, we find a positive association between climate risk and underinvestment in labor, notably manifesting as excessive employee layoffs.
Claude Francoeur   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A critical analysis of Ethiopian Civil Code: in light of the core features of Continental European Codification [PDF]

open access: yes
This dissertation examines the core features of codification and applies them to the Ethiopian civil code in order to critically analyze whether that code complies with the core features of continental European codification or not.
Haile, Liku Worku
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