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Corruption Control and Corporate Hazardous Waste Emissions: Cross‐Country Evidence and the Moderating Role of Agenda 2030

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to examine the impact of corruption control, as a public institutional mechanism, on hazardous waste emissions of private sector entities. We also examine the extent to which Agenda 2030 moderates the relationship. We analyse data from the top 500 global companies.
Babajide Oyewo, Olayinka Adedayo Erin, Mohammed Kayode Ajape, Becky Forbin   +3 more
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Current Trends and Future Research in Management Control for Sustainability in Retail

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing emphasis on sustainability in the retail sector, driven by regulatory frameworks, market trends and consumer demand, has placed management control at the forefront of facilitating sustainability practices. Despite increasing academic interest in this area, the literature is fragmented and provides limited sector‐specific insight ...
Miguel Gil, Mart Ots, Timur Uman
wiley   +1 more source

Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation

Big Data & Society
This paper introduces the concept of ‘oligopolistic platformisation’ to capture the specific dynamics of collaboration and competition between multinational upstream agribusinesses and Big Tech companies in the agricultural (ag) sector.
Monja Sauvagerd, Maximilian Mayer, Monika Hartmann   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Capital Structure with Risky Foreign Investment [PDF]

American multinational firms respond to politically risky environments by adjusting their capital structures abroad and at home. Foreign subsidiaries located in politically risky countries have significantly more debt than do other foreign affiliates of ...
C. Fritz Foley, James R. Hines Jr., Mihir A. Desai   +2 more
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Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher, Darlene Himick, Leigh Ellen Walsh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability in multinational companies

, 2020
This study aims to analyze the real capacity to implement sustainability in multinational companies. First we analyze the key concepts, and then we present a background check of multinational companies. The central part of the document is intended to analyze the relationship of companies with the environment and sustainability, what steps companies can
openaire   +1 more source

Multinational Companies, Backward Linkages and Labour Demand Elasticities [PDF]

This paper investigates the link between nationality of ownership and wage elasticities of labour demand at the level of the plant. In particular, we examine whether labour demand in multinationals becomes less elastic with respect to the wage if the ...
Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh, Holger Görg, Michael Henry   +3 more
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Ngos' Contributions to Innovation: Innovation Enablers or Lead Innovators?

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how non‐governmental organisations (NGOs) engage with innovation processes. Drawing on a comparative case study of two NGOs working in water sustainability, the paper analyses NGO involvement across seven stages of the innovation process.
Maria Cristina Pietronudo, Lorenza Claudio, Chiara Cannavale, Marco Ferretti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Purpose and Profit: Social and Environmental Marketing for Large Companies in Adverse Scenarios

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This qualitative study explored how large companies use social and environmental marketing to boost results in adverse scenarios, analyzing interviews with marketing managers and public documents. The findings reveal distinct strategies. To attract investors, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) communication is targeted at limited ...
Celso Jacubavicius, Giancarlo Medeiros Pereira, Oduvaldo Vendrametto, Miriam Borchardt, Gabriel Sperandio Milan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

CONFLICT OF INTEREST: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF FRANCHISING BUSINESS [PDF]

There are many multinational companies engaging with the franchising mechanisms in order to expand the business opportunity, to explore new opportunities, and to develop businesses domestically and internationally.
Hassanudin Bin Mohd Thas Thaker
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