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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Who remains uncovered? Assessing inequalities and determinants of national health insurance enrolment among informal sector workers in Kenya. [PDF]
Glob Health Res PolicyWamalwa PN +5 more
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Women's experiences using drugs to induce abortion acquired in the informal sector in Colombia: qualitative interviews with users in Bogotá and the Coffee Axis. [PDF]
Sex Reprod Health Matters, 2021 Moore AM +4 more
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Optimal Policies and the Informal Sector [PDF]
This paper characterizes optimal policies in the presence of tax evasion and undocumented workers. Equilibrium can be characterized as segmented or non-segmented, depending on whether domestic workers work exclusively in the formal sector (segmented) or ...
Katherine Cuff +3 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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Payment compliance of informal sector workers in Indonesia National Health Insurance: a study on ability and willingness to pay. [PDF]
Health Econ RevHidayat MS +9 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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Willingness and perceived ability to pay for Uganda's proposed national health insurance scheme among informal sector workers in Iganga and Mayuge districts, Uganda: A contingent valuation method. [PDF]
PLOS Glob Public HealthNamuhani N, Kisakye AN, Kiwanuka SN.
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Why did informal sector workers stop paying for health insurance in Indonesia? Exploring enrollees' ability and willingness to pay. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Muttaqien M +8 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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