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The Influence of ESG Controversies on Financing Costs for European Companies: Does Culture Matter?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) controversies and corporate financing costs, focusing on the moderating effect of national culture. It analyzes European companies listed on the STOXX 600 Index from 2016 to 2023.
Souad Brinette, Marie‐Josèphe Rigobert, Slimane ED‐Dafali   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Energy Corporations and Climate Change: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions in Shaping Climate Change Risk Disclosure

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines climate change risk disclosure in the global energy sector, where firms face intense stakeholder scrutiny and legitimacy pressures. We develop a novel domain‐specific textual analysis measure to capture climate change risk disclosures, improving on prior approaches based on generic environmental terminology.
Khaldoon Albitar, Ali Meftah Gerged
wiley   +1 more source

War, Women, and Language Change: A Corpus-Based Study of Ukrainian Military-Related Feminine Terms – Decolonial Implications

Sprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa
This paper examines the evolving use of military-related feminine personal nouns in Ukrainian, driven by the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war (since 2014), with roots traced back to World War II and World War I.
Olena Synchak
doaj   +1 more source

Prostaglandins, masculinization and its disorders: effects of fetal exposure of the rat to the cyclooxygenase inhibitor- indomethacin.

PLoS ONE, 2013
Recent studies have established that masculinization of the male reproductive tract is programmed by androgens in a critical fetal 'masculinization programming window' (MPW).
Afshan Dean, William Mungall, Chris McKinnell, Richard M Sharpe   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Concepts of Masculinity and Masculinity Studies [PDF]

, 2020
This essay provides a conceptual history of the study of masculinity in the English-speaking academy from the birth of “men’s studies” in the 1980s to current work on global masculinities. With a move away from masculinity as singular toward a focus on multiple masculinities, the influential system of theoretical types of masculinities largely ...
openaire   +1 more source

Environmental Disclosure Under Mandatory Regulation in EU Listed Companies: An Institutional Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines corporate environmental reporting practices among listed companies in the European Union during the period 2018–2022, within the context of the Non‐Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD). To this end, an Environmental Disclosure Index (EDI) is constructed based on qualitative reporting items, and panel‐data models are ...
Rosalva Pinto‐Braga, Pedro Lorca Fernández, Javier de Andrés Suárez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Wolbachia factor for male killing in lepidopteran insects

Nature Communications, 2022
Bacterial symbionts, such as Wolbachia species, can manipulate the sexual development and reproduction of their insect hosts. Here, the authors identify a Wolbachia protein that interacts with a host masculinization factor and leads to male killing in ...
Susumu Katsuma, Kanako Hirota, Noriko Matsuda-Imai, Takahiro Fukui, Tomohiro Muro, Kohei Nishino, Hidetaka Kosako, Keisuke Shoji, Hideki Takanashi, Takeshi Fujii, Shin-ichi Arimura, Takashi Kiuchi   +11 more
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Unpacking ESG Controversies: A Proposed Integrated Framework of Organizational Frictions and Fallout From a Systematic Literature Review

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on ESG controversies has expanded rapidly, but findings remain fragmented and lack a unifying perspective. This study conducts a PRISMA‐guided, framework‐based systematic review of 68 empirical articles published between 2018 and 2025 (May) to synthesize the main determinants and consequences of ESG controversies.
Cristina Alexandrina Ştefănescu, Andra Larisa Suciu   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Cost of Equity Capital: A Meta‐Analytical Review

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on the relationship between corporate environmental responsibility (CER) and cost of equity capital (COEC), empirical evidence remains inconsistent. This study addresses these inconsistencies through a comprehensive meta‐analysis of 1139 effect sizes from 75 studies.
Robert Witte, Ewald Aschauer, Helmut Pernsteiner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Women Are Eco‐Friendly, so Are They From Venus? Exploring Green‐Feminine Stereotyping and Green Gender Gap

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Marketers and policy makers have tried to bridge the green attitude–behavior gap through the use of pro‐environmental appeals using advertising to convey the “greenness” of their products. However, due to green‐feminine stereotyping, by focusing mainly on the green characteristics of the product, we may have alienated men, who, to safeguard ...
Agnieszka Chwialkowska, Waheed Akbar Bhatti, Andreea Bujac   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source