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Citizen Participation in Local Budgeting: Participatory Budgeting in African Municipal Contexts: A Critical Examination

, 2022
This article examines Citizen Participation in Local Budgeting: Participatory Budgeting in African Municipal Contexts: A Critical Examination with a focused emphasis on Cameroon within the field of Political Science. It is structured as a qualitative study that organises the problem, the strongest verified scholarship, and the main analytical ...
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Efficiency and Perceptions in Public CSR: An Integrated Efficiency–Perception Analysis of Spanish Defence Delegations

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public organisations often experience a discrepancy between improvements in technical efficiency and stakeholders' perceptions of integrity and performance. This study analyses the mechanisms that may underlie this efficiency–perception discrepancy in Spanish Defence Delegations during 2020–2023.
José Solana‐Ibáñez, Manuel Caravaca‐Garratón   +1 more
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Citizen Engagement in Governance: A Study of Participatory Budgeting in India

International Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
Citizen engagement in governance means that people and communities are actively involved in the public sector's decision-making, implementation, and monitoring processes to make things more open, accountable, and efficient. There are several ways to do it, such as town hall meetings, advisory groups, public consultations, and online forums.
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CSR Disclosure and Operating Performance in the Agri‐Food Manufacturing Industry: Evidence From Southern Europe

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure and operating profitability in the agri‐food manufacturing industry of Southern Europe, focusing on Extremadura (Spain). From an initial pool of 284 firms, the final sample comprised 185 companies after excluding inactive or non‐reporting cases.
Ángel Sabino Mirón Sanguino, Maria Pache Durán, Triana Arias Abelaira, María Beatriz Corchuelo Mártinez Azua   +3 more
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Digital Product Passports in Fashion: A Strategic Framework for Implementation

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the role of the Digital Product Passport (DPP) in promoting transparency, traceability, and sustainability within the fashion industry. As the fashion sector faces significant environmental and social challenges, including resource depletion, pollution, and unethical labor practices, the DPP offers a potential solution ...
Laura Macchion
wiley   +1 more source

The Recall in Colombia: institutional design and results of its application

Revista de Derecho Político, 2018
: Since the 90s, after the crisis of the mass representation model characteristic of the Welfare States, and the arrival of the so-called audience democracy, typical of the States of the Global Era, several Latin American countries undertook ...
María Laura Eberhardt
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Environmental Management Control Systems and Environmental and Economic Performance: Do Country Characteristics Matter?

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using an integrated framework that combines the natural resource‐based view with contingency theory, this study examines how environmental management control systems (EMCS) build multinational firms' environmental capabilities and balance their environmental and economic performance while accounting for cross‐country contextual conditions.
Kimitaka Nishitani, Thomas W. Guenther, Qi Wu, Edeltraud Guenther, Katsuhiko Kokubu   +4 more
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Teaming Up for Sustainability: Understanding Different Types, Projects, and Enablers of Employee Sustainability Teams

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Employee sustainability teams—groups collaborating continuously and voluntarily on sustainability initiatives—can serve as a bottom‐up driver for organizational change. Despite their potential, however, their role and contributions are underexplored. To fill this gap, our multi‐case study examines 59 projects by 13 teams across three companies
Jennifer Adolph, Markus Beckmann, Katrin Schwarzfischer, Lena Ries   +3 more
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Water Governance Under International Pressure: Policy Narratives, Food Security, Scarcity, and the Politics of Survival in Iran

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Water governance is increasingly influenced by a paradox at the nexus of environmental scarcity and food security. Escalating water scarcity crises coincide with geopolitical disruptions that have exposed the fragility of global food supply chains, prompting states to expand domestic food production at the expense of water conservation ...
Alireza Raisi
wiley   +1 more source

Involving citizens in public decision making: the case of participatory budgeting in Lithuania [PDF]

Financial theory and practice, 2013
In times of increasing public distrust in government and its institutions, engaging the public in decision making may strengthen democracy as well as result in a more effective allocation of scarce public resources. Participatory budgeting has started in Brazil and spread around the world but is a new concept in some countries.
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