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Elaborating the Motivations and Attitudes Driving Interest in Voluntary Biodiversity Credits
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global biodiversity loss has prompted the search for new sources of conservation finance, such as voluntary biodiversity credits (VBCs). However, despite optimistic market projections, current uptake of VBCs is limited. Adopting an interpretive approach, we analyse 21 semistructured interviews with early market actors (buyers, sellers ...
Gamze Yakar‐Pritchard +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms are increasingly looking into carbon dioxide removal (CDR), a set of options to take past emissions of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. Often two basic categories of CDR are distinguished: nature‐based solutions, such as planting trees or restoring wetlands, and technology‐based solutions, such as various forms of carbon capture ...
Sabrina Mili +3 more
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Comparison of Life Insurance Products of selected insurance companies
, 2020 Bakalářská práce s názvem Komparace pojistných produktů životního pojištění u vybraných pojišťoven se zabývá zhodnocením pojistných produktů v závislosti na využívání digitálních nástrojů ke komunikaci se zákazníky a distribuci produktů.
Šopíková, Michaela
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Institutional holdings changes and corporate voluntary disclosure [PDF]
Insurance Markets and Companies, 2012 Judy Beckman +3 more
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Corporate governance in insurance companies
Tokovi osiguranjaCorporate governance is the part of company law that governs the management and control of a company. In recent years, especially after the fi nancial crisis, corporate governance has become particularly important in fi nancial institutions, including insurance companies, and special rules of governance and control are increasingly applied to them ...
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how directors with environmental protection (EP) backgrounds influence corporate biodiversity concern (BIO) among Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2008 to 2023. Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory, we argue that directors' environmental expertise shapes firms' biodiversity strategies.
Chengming Huang +2 more
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Cross-Border M&As in the Financial Sector. Is Banking Different from Insurance? [PDF]
This paper investigates what factors might help explain the internationalization strategy of banks and insurance companies, by comparing the determinants of cross-border M&As in the two sectors in a unified framework.
Pozzolo, Alberto Franco +1 more
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Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid growing global attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG), this study examines the misalignment between ESG disclosures and actual practices—termed ‘lip service’—using data from Chinese firms from 2006 to 2022, constructing an index to quantify it.
Jia Xu, Mingwei Liu, Helen X. H. Bao
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Investments by Insurance Companies – Challenges and Opportunities
The process of financial portfolio management is tightly connected with adequate risk management. We strongly believe that multidimensional copula models allow determining risk measures with the least violation number in the back-testing, provides the ...
Petere, Gaida +2 more
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Asset and Liability Management for Banks and Insurance Companies
, 2015 In recent years, the techniques known as asset and liability management (ALM) have become a cornerstone of risk management, not only for banks but also for insurance companies.
Gehin, William +3 more
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