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Symbolic or Substantive Action: Intent, Effort, and Results

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many firms have made ambitious climate pledges since the Paris Agreement of 2015. These pledges may be symbolic or substantive, but the literature is fragmented in defining these two terms. We propose a conceptual framework with three frames to delineate symbolic from substantive action: Intent—underlying motivations for engaging in climate ...
Vincent Xinyi Gu   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘It’s a constant push and pull’: Conceptualizing youth and place among young Hmong American women in Minnesota [PDF]

open access: yesHmong Studies Journal
Many studies on Hmong American youth represent what Eve Tuck (2009) describes as damage-centered research. Damage-centered research focuses on the problems and deficits of a community rather than the complexities, contradictions, and desires.
Kao Nou L. Moua
doaj  

Hmong Across Borders or Borders Across Hmong? Social and Political Influences Upon Hmong People: Keynote Speech by Dr. Prasit Leepreecha, at the Hmong Across Borders Conference [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Hmong are a transnational ethnic people, because of their dispersal from China into Southeast Asia in the early 19th century and from Southeast Asia to Western countries from 1975 onward.
Prasit Leepreecha
core  

Critical Success Factors for Enhancing the Circular Economy Performance of Last‐Mile Cold Chain Logistics Packaging for Urban Agricultural Products

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the increasing demand for high‐quality agricultural products, the agricultural cold‐chain logistics packaging (ACLP) industry faces significant environmental pressure and circular economy issues. This study analyzes the critical success factors (CSFs) that would enhance ACLP circular economy performance (CEP). The adversarial interpretive
Miao Su   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Shaping of Traditions: Agriculture and Hmong Society [PDF]

open access: yesHmong Studies Journal, 2005
This article argues that throughout Hmong history, Hmong agriculture and the associated economic system have been determining forces affecting and giving rise to many social customs and religious beliefs.
Gary Yia Lee
doaj  

Hmong Parents Critical Reflections on Their Childrens Heritage Language Maintenance

open access: yesJournal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement, 2008
This study utilizes a qualitative method to explore the critical reflections of Hmong parents helping their children maintain their native language.
Terry Yang
doaj   +1 more source

On a Hmong Poetics of Ecocide

open access: yesJournal of Asian American Studies
Abstract: This article explores chemical warfare through Hmong American poet Mai Der Vang's book Yellow Rain . A scientific, political, and cultural incident, "yellow rain," according to countless Hmong survivors, is the name for the yellow sticky chemical substance that fell from the sky across Southeast Asia in the aftermath of the US war in Vietnam.
openaire   +2 more sources

Wisconsin Hmong experiences with hemodialysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Includes bibliographical ...
Krueger, Linda
core  

Can Carbon Strategy Enhance Corporate Productivity? Evidence From Carbon Risk and Opportunity Management

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whether corporate carbon management can enhance productive efficiency is central to firms' long‐term competitiveness and determines whether carbon reduction efforts can be sustained beyond regulatory compliance. This study examines how corporate carbon risk and opportunity management affects firm productivity (measured by total factor ...
Nan Huang, Hanlu Fan, Ruoxin Zhu
wiley   +1 more source

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