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Climate Action Response Plans in Firms: Exploring the Characteristics of Firms Planning for a More Sustainable Future

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firm‐level Climate Action Response Plans (CARPs) comprise firms' climate change mitigation and adaptation commitments. Encouraging firms to develop CARPs is thus vital for meeting ever‐pressing climate goals. Understanding the resources and capabilities facilitating firms to develop CARPs can inform evidence‐based approaches to accelerate ...
Helena Lenihan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Truancy on Educational Attainment: A Bivariate Ordered Probit Estimator with Mixed Effects [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper investigates the relationship between educational attainment and truancy. Using data from the Youth Cohort Study of England and Wales, we estimate the causal impact that truancy has on educational attainment at age 16. Problematic is that both
Franz Buscha, Anna Conte
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CEO Characteristics, Carbon Disclosure and Earnings Management in China: The Role of Risk Tolerance and Environmental Uncertainty

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how earnings management shapes the relationship between CEO characteristics, i.e., gender, education, age, tenure and financial expertise, and corporate carbon disclosure. While prior research links managerial attributes to environmental transparency, limited attention has been paid to the role of financial reporting ...
Shihong Zeng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

To Compare Customer Satisfaction via Luxury Hotel Cases-An Application of Ordered Probit Model

open access: yes, 2012
[[abstract]]ABSTRACTThe purpose of this study is to analyze and compare customer satisfaction in the luxury hotel cases between Taiwan and Mongolia. Kano model is used to analyze the target population of customers of luxury hotel via questionnaire survey.
Baigaltugs, Tsatsral
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Corporate Environmental Innovation and Environmental Decoupling: International Evidence

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates whether environmental innovation reduces environmental decoupling, defined as the mismatch between a company's environmental disclosures and its actual environmental performance. Drawing on legitimacy theory, we argue that environmental innovation represents a substantive organizational response that reduces companies ...
Rasmi Meqbel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parental Divorce and Generalized Trust [PDF]

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This paper examines the effect of parental divorce during childhood on generalized trust later on in life using Australian HILDA panel data. The dependent variable is composed of answers to the statement: “Generally speaking, most people can be trusted”.
Viitanen, Tarja
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Climate Change Exposure and Firms' Biodiversity Impact Reduction Strategy

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how climate change exposure shapes long‐run biodiversity disclosure strategies, for instance, by informing efforts to reduce biodiversity impacts and by contributing to the existing environment and strategy literature in various ways. First, this paper adds insight into horizon issues related to climate change and shows
Post Raj Pokharel
wiley   +1 more source

Seats at the Table, Shifts in the Actions: Board Gender Diversity and Climate Activism

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As regulatory and stakeholder pressures intensify, firms are increasingly expected to move beyond symbolic sustainability commitments towards corporate climate activism. This concept refers to the active institutionalisation of climate‐focused mechanisms such as external assurance, board oversight and climate‐linked incentives.
Md Tanvir Hamim, Rasim Simsek
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of truck-related crashes of freeways in China

open access: yesAdvances in Mechanical Engineering, 2019
Truck-related crashes result in tremendous lives and property loss and become a serious safety issue in China. The goal of this article is to identify the influential factors for severity of truck-related crashes using data from Jingjintang freeways in ...
Ting Xu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors Affecting the Adoption of Soil Conservation Measures: A Case Study of Fijian Cane Farmers

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2008
This study explored the extent to which various factors affect Fijian cane farmers' adoption of soil conservation measures. The significant factors affecting perception of the soil erosion problem include age, education, ethnicity, and extension services.
John Asafu-Adjaye
doaj   +1 more source

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