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The Norwegian Internet Voting Protocol [PDF]
, 2012 The Norwegian government will run a trial of internet remote voting during the 2011 local government elections. A new cryptographic voting protocol will be used, where so-called return codes allow voters to verify that their ballots will be counted as cast. This paper discusses a slightly simplified version of the cryptographic protocol.
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Evaluation of the I-Voting System for Remote Primary Elections of the Czech Pirate Party
Acta Informatica PragensiaThe integration of digital technologies into political processes represents a pivotal shift in the operational dynamics of political parties, highlighting an evolution from traditional to digital platforms.
Tomáš Martínek, Michal Malý
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid growing resource pressures, environmental regulation plays a critical role in enabling the transition to a circular economy (CE). This study conducts a systematic literature review to synthesize how different regulatory approaches—command‐and‐control, market‐based, voluntary, and reflexive—affect CE transitions across economic and ...
Li Yuan
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Powering Transparency: Global Drivers of Sustainability Reporting in the Electricity Sector
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the drivers of sustainability reporting quality (QSR), conceptualised along two complementary dimensions, relevance and reliability, to assess how firm‐level attributes and institutional conditions jointly shape disclosure practices in the electricity sector.
Alva Marasigan +3 more
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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 +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the determinants of firms' propensity to adopt green buildings in the Euro Stoxx 300 and the S&P 500 indices, during 2012–2023. Using random forest binary classifiers, we assess the relative importance of financial, sectoral, geographic, and climate governance predictors and uncover nonlinear relationships often overlooked ...
María del Carmen Valls Martínez +3 more
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SeVEP: Secure and Verifiable Electronic Polling System
IEEE Access, 2019 Electronic polling systems promise benefits to voters such as accessibility and convenience that enable them to cast their votes at any time, from any Internet-connected computing device anywhere in the world.
Amna Qureshi +2 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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Measures to establish trust in internet voting
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, 2011 Technical research has achieved strong advances in addressing security concerns in internet voting, yet the solutions are complicated and difficult to explain to the public. Accordingly, internet voting commonly faces opposition despite the benefits voters and authorities may expect.
Volkamer, Melanie +2 more
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Target Firm's ESG Engagement and Post–M&A Performance: The Mediating Role of Acquirer's CSR Strategy
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper examines whether the environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of target firms influences both accounting‐based and market‐based corporate financial performance (CFP) within the merger and acquisition (M&A) context and whether this relationship is mediated by the acquirer's corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy.
Francesco Gangi +4 more
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