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Symbolic Versus Substantive ESG Practices: A Systematic Review and Integrative Framework

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ESG reporting is widespread, but symbolic commitments do not always reflect substantive practices. This study conducts a systematic literature review of 62 empirical articles published between 2021 and 2025 to synthesize the main determinants and consequences of this disclosure–performance misalignment in ESG reporting (commonly referred to as
Cristina Alexandrina Ştefănescu   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Licensing weak patents [PDF]

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In this paper, we revisit the issue of licensing ‘weak' patents under the shadow of litigation. Departing from the seminal paper by Farrell and Shapiro [2008], we consider innovations of any size and not only ‘small' innovations, and we allow the number ...
David Encaoua, Yassine Lefouili
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Does ESG Drive Performance or Does Performance Enable ESG? Evidence of Reverse Causality From Korean Firms

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)‐performance literature has grown substantially, yet a fundamental question remains underexplored: do ESG investments improve firm performance, or do high‐performing firms simply invest more in ESG? We empirically address this question using panel vector autoregression with Granger causality tests
Jiyeon Kim, Wooyoung Yang
wiley   +1 more source

The Language of Greenwashing: SDG Omission and Opportunity‐Oriented Environmental Tone as Alert Metrics in Green Bond Disclosures

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Green bonds play a central role in sustainable finance, yet concerns about greenwashing raise questions about the credibility of issuers' sustainability disclosures. Using dictionary‐based methods and domain‐specific BERT transformer models, this paper proposes two greenwashing alert metrics and investigates their performance by analyzing ...
Andrea Nicolodi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

HANDLING SHARIA ECONOMIC DISPUTES THROUGH NON-LITIGATION AND ITS RELATION TO MASLAḤAḤ

open access: yesJSE: Jurnal Sharia Economica
This research aims to analyze the handling of sharia economic disputes by passing through non-litigation channels with a Maslaḥaḥ asy-Syatibiyy perspective. This research is included in library research using a qualitative descriptive approach. Data collection is obtained through primary and secondary literature review.
Muhammad Nabat Ardli   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Managing the Efficiency–Satisfaction Trade‐Off: The Moderating Role of Corporate Social Responsibility in Legal Services

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digitalization has reshaped professional services, yet its impact on client satisfaction remains ambiguous. This study examines the efficiency‐satisfaction paradox in China's digitized legal services. Using 5,500 client assessments from 110 firms, we identify an inverted U‐shaped relationship between legal service efficiency (LSE) and customer
Wenjing Liu, Soo Jeong Hong
wiley   +1 more source

Access to justice: An economic approach.

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Chapter five investigates the lawyer’s role in causing expensive litigation. Jun constructs a game theoretic model where a lawyer has more information than his client concerning the characteristics of a lawsuit.
Zhou, J.
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Governing Sustainability After IPO: Corporate Governance Mechanisms and ESG Pillar Trajectories in the Euro Area

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study provides exploratory evidence on whether going public may act as a catalyst for corporate sustainability and examines whether board‐level governance arrangements shape post‐IPO sustainability trajectories. Drawing on a formal conceptual framework that integrates agency theory, legitimacy theory, and the resource‐based view as ...
Salvatore La Barbera
wiley   +1 more source

Shareholder Access to Manager-Biased Courts and the Monitoring/Litigation Tradeoff [PDF]

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Adequate access to courts by minority shareholders is commonly viewed as an important element of a good corporate governance system. Should shareholders be provided with easy access to courts when judges are unlikely to punish opportunistic managers?
Sergey Stepanov
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Transendocardial injection of expanded autologous CD34+ cells after myocardial infarction: Design of the EXCELLENT trial

open access: yesESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 1455-1463, April 2025.
Abstract Aims The extent of irreversible cardiomyocyte necrosis after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a major determinant of residual left ventricular (LV) function and clinical outcome. Cell therapy based on CD34+ cells has emerged as an option to help repair the myocardium and to improve outcomes.
Jerome Roncalli   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

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