ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
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Social support and hospitalization in the elderly: investigating the role of frailty trajectories. [PDF]
Eur J Public HealthScarcella P +10 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As firms increasingly incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns into their strategic agendas, stakeholder legitimacy—an audience‐conferred judgment of organizational appropriateness—has become pivotal. We theorize legitimacy as expanding a hybrid response portfolio in which firms may pursue substantive change (business ...
Min‐Jae Lee +3 more
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Multi-professional primary healthcare centres: psychometric testing of a new quality-of-care instrument. [PDF]
J Patient Rep OutcomesDany A +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino +2 more
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Enhancing Caregivers' Quality of Life Through a Web-Based Person-Centered Solution (TechQoL4Carers): Protocol for a Mixed Methods Pilot Trial. [PDF]
JMIR Res ProtocGroba B +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The critical role of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in driving economic growth through employment generation and innovation cannot go unseen, especially the efforts of small firms in promoting sustainable entrepreneurship. With more market and consumer focus on sustainability and the shift toward eco‐friendly products, SMEs can ...
Nasser Hadi Alajmi
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Determinants and implementation strategies to implement a reflection method for guideline-based informal caregiving in community nursing in the Netherlands: a mixed-method study. [PDF]
BMJ OpenVullings N +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental protection has emerged as a global priority in the contemporary context. As pivotal actors in the transition towards sustainable development, companies play a crucial role through the adoption of environmental innovations. This study investigates how organisational characteristics—specifically geographical location, business ...
Carlos de las Heras‐Rosas +3 more
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SOCAV: a nurse-led support programme for self-direction in people with dementia receiving home care, involving informal caregivers - a feasibility study with process evaluation in the Netherlands. [PDF]
BMJ OpenDas P +4 more
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