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Conceptualising Supply Chain Resilience Within Social Enterprises
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research seeks to conceptualise supply chain resilience (SCRes) in a social enterprise (SE) context, focusing on SEs with a social mission to tackle food insecurity and food poverty. Despite the increasingly mature field of SCRes and awareness of the critical role SEs play in tackling social challenges such as food poverty, no studies ...
Alexander James Jones +3 more
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Fiscal Decentralization, Chinese Style: Good for Health Outcomes? [PDF]
This study analyzes the effect of fiscal decentralization on health outcomes in China using a panel data set with nationwide county-level data. We find that counties in more fiscal decentralized provinces have lower infant mortality rates compared with ...
Jütting, Johannes P., Uchimura, Hiroko
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Complex Firms, Controversial Outcomes: Global Evidence on ESG Failures and Remedies
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine whether business complexity increases firms' exposure to negative environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes, specifically ESG controversies, using a global panel of firms from 37 countries over the period 2002–2021.
Abongeh A. Tunyi +3 more
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DECENTRALIZATION OF PUBLIC AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN UKRAINE
Baltic Journal of Economic Studies, 2016 The purpose of research is to examine the purpose of a modern system of local government in Ukraine, scientific analysis of the feasibility and benefits of implemented reforms for decentralization and subsidiary of local authorities, decentralization of ...
Lyudmila Pron’ko, Tatyana Kolesnik
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Sequencing fiscal decentralization [PDF]
While there is extensive knowledge about how to design fiscal decentralization policies, considerably less is understood about how a decentralization program should be sequenced and implemented. Countries embarking on decentralization often struggle with
Bahl, Roy, Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing upon ecological modernization theory as the analytical framework, this study employs macro‐level longitudinal tracking data covering China's major regions as research samples. It measures the green and low‐carbon development (GLCD) of manufacturing from the four dimensions—“carbon reduction, pollution mitigation, ecological expansion ...
Deng Wang +4 more
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Local governments and the decentralization process
, 2004 Uno de los déficits o carencias más preocupantes del actual proceso de descentralización es el bajo nivel de participación o protagonismo de los gobiernos locales en el diseño, concertación y aprobación de los marcos normativos y políticas nacionales orientadoras de esta reforma del Estado.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study offers a forward‐looking assessment of sustainability indicator research in agribusiness by integrating bibliometric mapping with ARIMA‐based forecasting. Analysing 403 Scopus‐indexed articles, bibliographic‐coupling analysis identifies three contemporary thematic domains: Techno‐Managerial Sustainability, Systemic and ...
Marcelo Kratz Mendes +5 more
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Decentralization and Access to Social Services in Colombia [PDF]
A central claim in favor of decentralization is that it will improve access to public services, but few studies examine this question empirically. This paper explores the effects of decentralization on access to health and education in Colombia.
Fabio Sánchez, Jean-Paul Faguet
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