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ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the ESG Paradox: Strategic Pathways Between Innovation and Washing Under Stakeholder Scrutiny

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As firms increasingly incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns into their strategic agendas, stakeholder legitimacy—an audience‐conferred judgment of organizational appropriateness—has become pivotal. We theorize legitimacy as expanding a hybrid response portfolio in which firms may pursue substantive change (business ...
Min‐Jae Lee, Anna Pak, Donghwi (Josh) Seo, Taewoo Roh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Legal fact sheet: Humanity after life: Respecting and protecting the dead

International Review of the Red Cross
doaj   +1 more source

Matters Arising: The importance of understanding AI's impact on physician behavior. [PDF]

Npj Ment Health Res
Bernstein MH, Sheppard B, Bruno MA, Baird GL.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Green Innovation and Firm Efficiency: The Role of Institutional Quality in Italian High‐Tech Manufacturing Sectors

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino, Sandro Rondinella, Marianna Succurro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regulation and criminal law enforcement in healthcare: an uneasy alliance or partners in crime? [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res
Amelink Q, Weenink JW, Leistikow I.
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond Profit: Do Mergers and Acquisitions and the Board of Directors Increase the Environmental, Social, and Governance?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between mergers and acquisitions (M&A), board characteristics, and ESG performance in BRICS companies, considering the moderating role of sectoral sensitivity. The study analyzes 11,402 observations from 2293 BRICS companies, employing Two‐Stage Least Squares (2SLS) to address endogeneity and logistic ...
Geovane Camilo dos Santos, Camila Lima Bazani, Pablo Zambra   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

HiCoBERT: a hierarchical transformer-based framework for Pakistan legal judgment section segmentation with multi-level XAI insights. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Bibi M, Rehman ZU, Awan KM, Kamal S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Internalization of Management Systems and Eco‐Product Innovation: The More the Better?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental challenges demand urgent and strategic responses from firms. Eco‐product innovation (EPI) is a key approach to reducing environmental impact while preserving competitiveness. This research analyses the relationship between EPI and the internalization of management system (MS) certifications, focusing on ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ...
Alfonso Hernandez‐Vivanco, Jonathan Calleja‐Blanco, Merce Bernardo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the New Frontier: Recommendations for Sports Medicine Physicians in the Era of NIL and Direct Athlete Compensation. [PDF]

Sports Health
Nocek M, Hawryluk CJ, Villegas Meza AD, Herrmann CB, Uppstrom TJ, McCarty EC, Millett PJ.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source