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Funding Costs and Liquidity Creation: Does ESG Play Any Role?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how banks' funding costs affect liquidity creation and whether environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance shapes this relationship. Using panel data for 136 U.S. commercial banks from 2005 to 2022, we show that higher funding costs are associated with lower liquidity creation, indicating that more expensive ...
Sattam Bin Kowibeen, Ashraf Khan, M. Kabir Hassan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence–Driven and Digital Practices for Circular Business and Finance: Insights for Advancing Hubs for Circularity

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The emerging concept of Hubs for Circularity (H4Cs) presents an opportunity to create collaborative, self‐sustaining regional industrial ecosystems that drive circular economy transitions at scale. However, the operationalisation of H4Cs faces financial, organisational and data‐driven challenges.
Aditya Tripathi, Marcos R. Machado, Laura Spierdijk, Devrim Murat Yazan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Model for Enhancing the Quality of Services in the Management of Social Security Healthcare in Mazandaran Province [PDF]

Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences
Background and purpose: The Family Physician Program is a community-based initiative designed to provide healthcare services to all members of society, regardless of age or gender, in a comprehensive, coordinated, continuous, and patient-centered manner.
Seyyed Ebrahim Jafari Kelarijani, Yaghoub Alavimatin, Davood Paydarfard   +2 more
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Beyond Structural Interventions: The Human Architecture Shaping ESG Integration in Corporate Systems

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the promotion of ESG in corporate discourse, substantive integration of ESG principles into business practices remains challenging. This study applies and extends Meadows' leverage framework to examine ESG integration in UAE‐listed firms.
M. Schulte, Dimitris Christopoulos
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Management Accounting in Private Hospitals: Navigating Competing Strategic Priorities for Sustainable Decision‐Making

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental management accounting (EMA) is increasingly recognised as essential for carbon governance, accountability and net zero transitions, yet research has overlooked how sustainability is negotiated within mission‐driven but commercially exposed service organisations such as private hospitals in developing economies, a sector often ...
M. M. Swalih, Ronita Ram, Edward Tew
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a Greener Future: How and When Blockchain and Digitization Drive Green Finance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic has significantly affected small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) and poses challenges in acquiring financing. Growing green investments require transformative infrastructure and innovative green financing solutions. Blockchain technology is ideal for delivering green environmental information because it provides real‐
Sikandar Rahman, Bailing Liu, Murad Ali, Sheikh Adeel, Dana Bakry, Saleh Bajaba, Mohammad Asif Salam, Hengky Latan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the Patient Referral System in Urban Family Physician Program, from Stakeholders` Perspective Using SWOT Approach: A Qualitative Study

Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, 2018
Background and purpose: Leveling of health services and resources is implemented in Iran to promote the health situation and preventing unnecessary visits and waste of human and financial resources.
Khadije Safizadehe Chamokhtari, Ghasem Abedi, Aboalfazl Marvi   +2 more
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The Moral Manager in the Market: How CFOs' Ethical Intelligence Drives ESG Investment in Emerging Economies' Dual Markets

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What propels a CFO in an emerging economy to champion ESG investments when formal regulations are weak? Moving beyond structural explanations, we provide a behavioural account arguing that a manager's internal ethical compass—moral intelligence (MI)—is a key driver.
AmirHossein ArminKia, Davood Askarany, Seyed Hamed Fahimifard, Seyedeh Kimia Shafahi Moghadam, Seyed Shayan Alavi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Extra Cost of Granting Autonomy to Public Hospitals

مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2012
Background: Reform of structure and improvement of healthcare providing system especially in hospitals are among the most important priorities of health systems. Granting autonomy to university hospitals is a recommended in this regard.
Saeed Manavi, Saeideh Babashahy, Ali Akbari Sari   +2 more
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Broad Skills, Smaller Footprints? Generalist CEOs and Firm Biodiversity Exposure

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine whether CEO generalist skills predict firm‐level biodiversity risk exposure, an emerging strategic and financial concern. Using the biodiversity indicator developed based on textual analysis and the General Ability Index, we find that firms led by generalist CEOs are associated with significantly lower disclosed biodiversity risk ...
Hafiz Hoque, Saadia Irfan, Linh Thi Tue Tran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source