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Do Banks in the Middle East and North Africa Region Price Carbon Exposure?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether carbon exposure is incorporated into corporate borrowing costs within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Using a panel of 771 firm‐year observations from publicly listed non‐financial firms between 2016 and 2023, the analysis investigates the relationship between carbon intensity and firms' cost of debt
Yara Ibrahim, Khaled Hussainey, Taghred Mokhtar Sayed Moawad   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Renewable Energy, Climate Risk, and the Cost of External Assurance: International Evidence

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corporate shifts from fossil fuels to renewable energy are central to climate‐transition strategies, but their effects on external assurance have not been well understood. This study examines whether, how and where corporate renewable energy consumption affects the cost of external assurance, proxied by statutory audit fees.
Rashid Zaman, Terri Trireksani, Hadrian Geri Djajadikerta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using Machine Learning to Predict Corporate Environmental Violation: A Stakeholder Pressure Perspective

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Predicting corporate environmental violations remains a key challenge in practice and in environmental governance research. However, existing studies have largely focused on ex post associations between stakeholder pressures and realized environmental violations, offering limited insight into whether stakeholder pressures can be used ex ante ...
Xiaolan Chen, Ning Ding, Haodong Jin, Rui Xue, Yuhao Yang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Innovation and Growth Investment Through Capital Expenditure as a Channel and Boundary Condition Between Financial Performance and Corporate Reputation

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the role of capital expenditure in the relationship between financial performance and corporate reputation. Using moderation and mediation analyses based on multiple regressions with bootstrapping, we examined data from 121 airlines from 46 countries during 2007–2023.
Larissa M. Batrancea, Andreas‐Daniel Cocis, Ioan Dan Morar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design of contextual agricultural credit scoring model (CACSM) for Kisan Credit Card scheme in India: An application of NLP and machine learning

IIMB Management Review
This study introduces a contextual agricultural credit scoring model (CACSM) that incorporates loan repayment intention scores to enhance decision-making in collateral-free, small-ticket agricultural loans. By integrating sentiment analysis using Valence
Soma Panja, Subroto Chowdhury
doaj   +1 more source

Profitability of Banana Cultivation Under Agricultural Credit in a Selected Area of Bangladesh

Fundamental and Applied Agriculture, 2018
Banana cultivation is one of the capital-intensive farming activities in Bangladesh. Agricultural credit can play important role by providing the needed liquidity to farmers who do not have sufficient investable funds to exploit the opportunity.
Md. Ashraful Islam, Mohammad Ataur Rahman, Jiban Krishna Saha   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exposing Gender Blindness in Business Scholarship on Modern Slavery

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of this review is to analyse the treatment of gender within business scholarship on modern slavery and to propose a framework that supports more gender‐sensitive corporate responses. Modern slavery risk is an escalating concern for business, with the United Nations calling for its eradication by 2030.
Kathyayini Kathy Rao, Roger Leonard Burritt, Katherine Leanne Christ   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk Management in Microfinance: How Customer Financial Profiles Can Improve Loan Repayment Strategies in Kwara State, Nigeria

International Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management
This study examined the effect of customer financial profiles on loan repayment strategy effectiveness and loan default tendency among active borrowers of licensed microfinance banks in Kwara State, Nigeria.
Ahmed Adekunle
doaj   +1 more source

A study of micro finance institution’s role in developing the small scale enterprises of Ethiopia

DIJB (Diponegoro International Journal of Business), 2018
This study was conducted in Gedio zone small scale enterprise financed by micro finance institution. The main objective the study was to evaluate and determine the factor that determines loan repayment performance of small scale enterprise financed by ...
Anubha Srivastava, Preeti Kulshresthra
doaj   +1 more source

Ambient technology in epilepsy clinical practice

Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract The utilization of large language model‐based artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of neurology has gained attention as a viable tool to enhance and assist providers with processes ranging from scheduling patients to providing preliminary interpretations of testing results, pending orders, and documenting encounters. Epileptologists could
Haania Kakwan, Justin F. Rousseau, Lidia M. Moura, Irfan S. Sheikh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source