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Steering Sustainability: Empirical Insights Into Enhancing ESG Ratings via CSR Committees

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study contributes to the ongoing discussion on the increasing importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) committees and their characteristics in driving a stronger focus on sustainability. Using ESG and financial data from Refinitiv/Datastream, governance information from BoardEx, and country‐level indicators from Eurostat, we ...
Andrea Caccialanza, Matteo Cotugno, Salvatore Perdichizzi, Riccardo Torelli   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Our Time to Shine’—Development and Qualitative Evaluation of the Be a Leader Leadership Training for People With Learning Disabilities

British Journal of Learning Disabilities, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Opportunities for people with learning disabilities to develop as leaders are rare, except through self‐advocacy groups. A leadership training course for people with learning disabilities in Kent‐ Be a Leader‐ was designed to address this gap.
Lisa Richardson, Steven Chapman, Ann‐Marie Lillis, Mollie Mattingly, Daniel Marsden, Emilia Ashley, Tricia Nicoll, Matt Clifton   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Co‐Design and Testing the Feeling at Home Checklist—A Novel Tool for Use by People With Learning Disabilities

British Journal of Learning Disabilities, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background ‘Feeling at home’ is a subjective and relational experience shaped by material environments, personal histories and everyday practices. In social care, homely environments are associated with improved individual outcomes. However, research has largely focused on externally defined indicators of homeliness, with limited attention to ...
Deborah Chinn, Katy Brickley, Shalim Ali, Tony Levitan, Andrew Power   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Culturally Safe Oral Health Services for a Regional Aboriginal Community in Victoria

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives National policies have been introduced to promote the delivery of Culturally Safe dental care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. However, the understanding of what constitutes Culturally Safe dental care and how it can be effectively implemented into clinical practice, remains limited.
Eliza Collins, Shawana Andrews, Julie Satur   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accountability and Hyperaccountability in Child Protection Scandals

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The number of child abuse–related deaths has decreased significantly in the United Kingdom over the past 50 years, but there remains public and political concern about the actual and perceived risk of child deaths, with resultant processes enacted to supervise child protection practice.
Robin Sen, John Devaney
wiley   +1 more source

Planning and Designing Public Playspaces With Children: Municipality Experiences of Implementing Children's Participation Processes

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children have the right to share their views in community playspace planning, yet adults often struggle to implement participatory processes. This qualitative study explores the experiences of Irish municipal staff, given that Ireland has a national policy on children's participation.
Rianne Jansens, Helen Lynch, Alexandra Olofsson, Maria Prellwitz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Representation in conservation publishing

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a persistent underrepresentation of marginalized voices in academic literature, including that for ecology and conservation. Such exclusion hampers career progression, perpetuating disadvantages for historically marginalized groups in the field, with implications for the direction of conservation research.
T. Yoh, J. Willis Key, I. Trung, G. Salazar, W. Pusparini, R. Oyanedel, R. Nuijten, B. Mustafa, V. K. Muposhi, C. Lamb, T. Kuiper, M. Khanyari, M. J. M. Holle, T. Gupta, M. Grace, C. S. Fukushima, F. Carrasco‐Rueda, S. Brittain, V. M. Shirey, R. Bashyal, R. Rocha, P. Cardoso, D. Veríssimo   +22 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Governance Role of Quasi‐Official Shareholder Activism: Evidence From Firm–Investor Communication in China

Corporate Governance: An International Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue We investigate whether a quasi‐official minority shareholder, the China Securities Investor Services Center (CSISC), affects firms' investor relations management when it actively exercises its shareholder rights in listed firms. Research Findings/Insights We employ a machine learning–based algorithm to estimate response
Karel Hrazdil, Jiyuan Li, Xiang Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Implications of Board Interlocks: A Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

Corporate Governance: An International Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue Board interlocks, stemming from directors' concurrent board appointments, have been viewed as a double‐edged sword that can generate both positive and negative effects, hinging on strategic outcomes and a multitude of contextual variables.
Joyce C. Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Classified Boards and Corporate Environmental and Social Performance

Corporate Governance: An International Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research Question/Issue This study examines the relationship between classified boards and firms' environmental and social (E&S) performance. We ask whether the insulation associated with classified boards is related to firms' sustainability outcomes and whether external monitoring and investor horizon condition this relationship.
Lars Helge Haß, Georgios Loukopoulos, Nor Nabilah Binti Nazimuddin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source