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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 +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Measuring sustainability performance is crucial for small and medium‐sized manufacturing enterprises and sustainability indicators must be incorporated into decision‐making. However, companies tend to measure only the aspects that interest them, disregarding those considered less strategic or relevant.
Alessandra Neri +3 more
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Insights into functional polymer-based organic-inorganic nanocomposites as leather finishes
Journal of Leather Science and Engineering, 2019 Nowadays, the increasing demands from consumer challenges the traditional leather products. Traditional polymer leather finishes gradually lose their dominant position in the market.
Qianqian Fan, Jianzhong Ma, Qunna Xu
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Effects of different salt-enzymes on opening up of collagen fiber bundles for leather making [PDF]
, 2019 Content: Traditional leather industry involves mechanical, chemical and biological processes, and a lot of leather chemicals are widely used annually. In the beamhouse, especially in liming and re-liming, enormous pollution is usually released because of
Zhang, Yafei +9 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, companies have increasingly sought to strengthen their sustainability commitment and reporting practices, particularly in industries with significant environmental and social impacts, such as fashion. The completeness and quality of sustainability reporting are central to European policy.
Daniela Preite +2 more
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Effect of Cyclic Stress on the Structure and Mechanical Properties of Leather
, 2020 Leathers are collagen-based biomaterials with very good viscoelasticity. in leather making, leather has to endure many different kinds of forces, especially cyclic stress.
Liu, Jie +4 more
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A Quantitative Analysis Determining the Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Leather Footwear Production in Selected Common Market for Eastern and Southern African (COMESA) Countries [PDF]
, 2014 A study using quantitative analysis determined the performance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) involved in the production of leather footwear and other leather products.
N., Mudungwe +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This work aims to understand the role played by Industry 4.0 (I4.0) base technologies and circular economy–oriented human resource management (CE‐HR) in the advancement of the circular economy (CE) performance. The present study builds on the natural resource‐based view to propose and empirically test three hypotheses.
Diéssica de Oliveira‐Dias +4 more
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Enzyme and bioprocess engineering methods for sustainable leather manufacturing
Discover ChemistryLeather manufacturing is primarily an ecological process as it manufactures leather from the waste generated by the meat industry. However, leather processing has several challenges in achieving greener and cleaner process technology.
Jeyas Kandhan Sudhagar +4 more
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The impact of the leather manufacturing process on bacterial growth [PDF]
Hides and skins used as a raw material for leather manufacture may be contaminated with various microbial species including potential pathogens. Many bacterial species such as Bacillus, Staphylococcus, Micrococcus and Pseudomonas were isolated from raw ...
Lama, Anne
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