ABSTRACT Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) dominate the global business landscape, making their sustainability efforts crucial. Yet little is known about how institutional contexts shape these practices. Using Institutional Theory, we compare the influence of cluster membership (CM), global value chain (GVC) membership, and the organizational ...
Barbara Caemmerer +2 more
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A systematic comparison of patient information leaflets from local and multinational pharmaceutical companies: Assessing content quality and completeness. [PDF]
Ibrahim Alzarea A +11 more
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ABSTRACT The emerging concept of Hubs for Circularity (H4Cs) presents an opportunity to create collaborative, self‐sustaining regional industrial ecosystems that drive circular economy transitions at scale. However, the operationalisation of H4Cs faces financial, organisational and data‐driven challenges.
Aditya Tripathi +3 more
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Strategic decoupling through legitimacy: the sustainability-innovation gap in the food processing sector and its health implications. [PDF]
Yucel M.
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Testing Gibrat's Law for European Multinational Enterprises [PDF]
This paper investigates the link between firm size and growth for European multinational enterprises based on the AMADEUS firm-level database. Using data for about 20,000 firms for the period 2000 2004, we find that firm size has a significant negative ...
Martin Falk
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A Critical Analysis of Microsoft's Rhetoric and Reality of Sustainability Engagement
ABSTRACT This study critically examines Microsoft's environmental, social and governance (ESG) rhetoric and operational reality, to offer insights that extend beyond conventional greenwashing or bluewashing. Drawing on over 20 years of Microsoft's sustainability reports (2003–2024), third‐party ESG evaluations and media investigations, it employs ...
Omaima A. G. Hassan, Iqbal Khadaroo
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Standard employment and segmentation practices within the automotive industry in South Africa. [PDF]
Dingeldey I, Schäfer A.
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The Impact of Mnes on Domestic Firms in CEECS: A Micro-Econometric Approach [PDF]
Many governments in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) have offered significant incentives in order to attract foreign investments, motivated by expectations on possible spillover benefits.
Laura Resmini, Marcella Nicolini
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ABSTRACT Decarbonization of the economy is a central challenge in the fight against climate change. Although most governments show clear commitment to limiting global warming, the drivers of corporate decarbonization remain underexplored. Using a dataset of 1052 firms from OECD, this article analyses how intangible assets and environmental innovation ...
Yanik Nimtz, Mercedes Teruel
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Pharmaceutical multinational corporations (MNCs) and their exit from low and middle income countries (LMICs): analysing the causes and consequences. [PDF]
Khan MAA.
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