Funding Costs and Liquidity Creation: Does ESG Play Any Role?
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 +2 more
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Empowering Circular Startups: Unveiling the Blueprint for Circular Business Models
ABSTRACT Circular startups are increasingly recognized as key drivers in the transition toward a circular economy. Yet the business models (BMs) through which these startups operationalize circularity remain poorly understood, limiting the ability of entrepreneurial ecosystem actors to offer effective support.
Ann‐Sophie Finner +2 more
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Strategies for Successfully Marketing and Stabilizing the Occupancy of Mixed-Income/Mixed-Race Properties: A Case Study of Montevista in Milpitas, California [PDF]
Montevista was built in 1998 and is a 306-unit mixed-income, mixed-race property in Milpitas, California. Milpitas is a small city outside San Jose that boomed along with the rest of Silicon Valley in the 1990s and then cooled off in the early 2000s.
Larry Buron
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Navigating the Double Edge of Product‐Service Systems: User Behavior, Adoption, and Rebound Effects
ABSTRACT Product‐service systems (PSS) have been considered a promising approach to operationalizing the circular economy. Although many studies have outlined the potential sustainability gains of PSS solutions, it is still unclear what factors drive PSS adoption and how behavioral changes result in rebound effects, undermining their potential ...
Marina Fernandes Aguiar +3 more
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Consumers' Intention to Use Circular Business Models: A Configurational Analysis
ABSTRACT Circular business models (CBMs) integrate ecological sustainability and resource efficiency into core business strategies, but their success depends on consumers' intention to use. Grounded in expectancy–value theory, this study investigates how product‐related factors (perceived usefulness, convenience, value for money, and performance risk ...
Christof Falkenberg +4 more
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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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Big Data Technology Fusion Back Propagation Neural Network in Product Innovation Design Method
This research uses big data technology to combine the process of product innovation design method, which has certain significance for the formation of intelligent and systematic product innovation design method. Meanwhile, while predicting the results of all products innovative design methods, it can improve the product's predictive innovative design ...
Ren Li, Qiang Zeng
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Connexions Between Motor Leasing and Insurance in Romania [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to show how important leasing is for companies and individual persons. We will analyze the leasing market, the auto market (because a great part of the leasing financing is for new vehicles) and present some real cases ...
Marius Gavriletea
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Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’
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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LNG Project Valuation with Financial Leasing Contracts [PDF]
,Project valuation; Capital budgeting; Financial Leasing; Financial ...
Emhjellen, Magne +2 more
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