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Enablers of transnational organized crime in Africa: A 21st-century perspective

International Review of Social Sciences Research
Transnational organized crime (TOC) persists as a significant catalyst for illicit economies and social upheaval in Africa. While comprehensive national estimates quantifying TOC’s impact remain elusive for numerous African nations, recent research ...
Tolulope Lembola Ojolo, Shanta Balgobind Singh   +1 more
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Electrification and Child Work: Direct and Spillover Effects in Ethiopia

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While electrification is often promoted for improving adults' labor supply, its effect on child work remains underexplored. Using four waves of Ethiopian panel data, we examine how electrification affects children's work time. By differentiating between households with and without own electricity access within electrified communities, we ...
Theresa Pieper, Thanh‐Tung Nguyen
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Forensic characteristics of the offender who committed a criminal offence under Article 206-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine

Law and Safety
An effective investigation of any criminal offence is not possible without forming a forensic profile, which includes information about the criminal’s identity.
S. V. Stetsenko
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AI‐Driven Circular Construction Waste Management for Advancing Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Construction and demolition waste (C&DW) represents up to 40% of global solid waste, posing a significant barrier to achieving circular economy (CE) objectives and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG 11 and SDG 12. However, construction waste management (CWM) systems remain constrained by fragmented data environments ...
Mohamed T. Elnabwy, Pablo Martinez
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Labor Cost and Value of Citrus Operations with Alternative Technology: Enterprise DCF Approach

The prospect of immigration policy reform has renewed growers’ concerns of serious labor shortages and cost increases given that a large portion of the workforce is unauthorized for U.S. employment.
Emerson, Robert D., Roka, Fritz M., Iwai, Nobuyuki   +2 more
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Undocumented worker employment and firm survivability [PDF]

Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival.
Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, J. David Brown, Julie L. Hotchkiss   +2 more
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From Proxies to System State: Defining Sustainability Management Against Symbolic Progress

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability in management is often measured through scores, ratings, and disclosure narratives that can reward symbolic progress while leaving underlying social‐ecological conditions unchanged. This perspective paper offers a definition of Sustainability Management as how organizations plan, organize, lead, and control (four management ...
Yiping Zhang, Olaf Weber
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Fuel smuggling investigation: Simple differentiation between Brazilian and Venezuelan fuels (diesel oil and gasoline) based on their biofuel content by GC/MS and FTIR

Brazilian Journal of Forensic Sciences, Medical Law and Bioethics
Fuel smuggling across borders is a persistent criminal activity observed in numerous countries worldwide. In Brazil, particularly, illegal fuel imports, mainly diesel oil and gasoline, primarily originate from Venezuela.
Lucio Paulo Lima Logrado
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Sustainable Business Models and Environmental Innovation Capacity: The Moderating Role of Board Effectiveness

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable Business Models (SBMs) reflect the degree to which sustainability principles are embedded across firms' business model architectures. However, the mere adoption of these models does not guarantee improvements in environmental innovation capacity due to internal organizational inertia.
Emma García‐Meca, Jennifer Martínez‐Ferrero, Christian Nielsen   +2 more
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Study on the Impact of National Audit on Illegal Tax Avoidance Behavior of Enterprises

Frontiers in Business, Economics and Management
Since the conception of the state, taxation has played an important and irreplaceable role in the economic structure of the country and is the main source of its general revenue. With a sound tax system, the state can continuously activate the engine of social and economic development. However, since the introduction of the tax system, many tax-related
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