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Target Firm's ESG Engagement and Post–M&A Performance: The Mediating Role of Acquirer's CSR Strategy

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines whether the environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of target firms influences both accounting‐based and market‐based corporate financial performance (CFP) within the merger and acquisition (M&A) context and whether this relationship is mediated by the acquirer's corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy.
Francesco Gangi, Nicola Varrone, Mario Ossorio, Lucia Michela Daniele, Maria Coscia   +4 more
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Strategic Shift: The Power of Green Strategy on Sustainability Performance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Employing FTSE Russell's unique Green Revenues data on S&P 1500 firms from 2016 to 2024, this study examines the long‐term effects of a corporate strategic shift toward green strategy, proxied by green revenue reporting, on corporate sustainability performance.
Post Raj Pokharel
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating item complexity as a source of cross-national DIF in TIMSS math and science

Large-scale Assessments in Education
Background Large scale international assessments depend on invariance of measurement across countries. An important consideration when observing cross-national differential item functioning (DIF) is whether the DIF actually reflects a source of bias, or ...
Qi Huang, Daniel M. Bolt, Weicong Lyu
doaj   +1 more source

Digital Orientation and Green Practices in Chilean SMEs: Innovation as the Pathway to Competitive Performance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how digital strategic orientation (DSO) and environmental practices (EP) interact to shape innovation and performance among Chilean SMEs. Using survey data from 271 firms (February–May 2022), we estimate a generalized structured component analysis (GSCA) model that accommodates a nonrecursive relationship between DSO and EP.
Constanza Caicha‐Caroca, Antonia Madrid‐Guijarro, Claudia Andrea Pezoa‐Fuentes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Cautionary Tale of Model Misspecification and Identifiability

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
Mathematical models are routinely applied to interpret biological data, with common goals that include both prediction and parameter estimation. A challenge in mathematical biology, in particular, is that models are often complex and non-identifiable, while data are limited.
Alexander P. Browning, Jennifer A. Flegg, Ryan J. Murphy   +2 more
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Corporate Dynamic Eco‐Innovation Capability and Carbon Emission Reduction: Evidence From African Listed Firms With the Role of Institutional Pressures

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the global emphasis on simultaneous achievement of higher growth and lower pollution (green growth), the dynamic link between eco‐innovation and CO2 emissions remains inadequately understood globally and specifically in Africa, with a complex and diverse institutional and regulatory landscape.
Idorenyin J. Okon, Adeolu O. Adewuyi, Alex O. Acheampong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A partially heterogeneous weighted fusion learning method for potential heterogeneous treatment effect in multi-site survival study

BMC Medical Research Methodology
Background In multi-site studies in clinical practice, the treatment effects may exhibit potential heterogeneity across different sites. Additionally, propensity score methods used to adjust for confounding may suffer from model misspecification, which ...
Chen Huang, Kecheng Wei, Yongfu Yu, Guoyou Qin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Review of the Effect of Relaxed Clock Method, Long Branches, Genes, and Calibrations in the Estimation of Angiosperm Age

Botan‪ical Sciences, 2014
The timing of angiosperm origin and diversification is crucial to understand the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems as we know them today. The fossil record and relaxed molecular clocks provide substantially different estimates of the time in which ...
Susana Magallón
doaj   +1 more source

From Informality to Green Development: How the Shadow Economy Affects Green Finance, Green Innovation, and Green Trade

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving green transition has become an essential policy priority for which economies need to mobilize green finance, increase green innovation, and promote trade in environmentally sustainable goods and services. However, the effectiveness of policies for enhanced green development depends not only on their design but also on their ...
Sami Ur Rahman, Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Javed Hussain, Imran Ali Khan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

On valid descriptive inference from non-probability sample

Statistical Theory and Related Fields, 2019
We examine the conditions under which descriptive inference can be based directly on the observed distribution in a non-probability sample, under both the super-population and quasi-randomisation modelling approaches.
Li-Chun Zhang
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