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ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
wiley   +1 more source

Retraction: Examining failure learning in online lending: Complete failure vs. incomplete failure. [PDF]

PLoS One
PLOS One Editors.
europepmc   +1 more source

Navigating the ESG Paradox: Strategic Pathways Between Innovation and Washing Under Stakeholder Scrutiny

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As firms increasingly incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns into their strategic agendas, stakeholder legitimacy—an audience‐conferred judgment of organizational appropriateness—has become pivotal. We theorize legitimacy as expanding a hybrid response portfolio in which firms may pursue substantive change (business ...
Min‐Jae Lee, Anna Pak, Donghwi (Josh) Seo, Taewoo Roh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural adjustment: damages, reparations and pathways to non-recurrence. [PDF]

BMJ Glob Health
Hickel J, Keshavjee S, Burkett M, Richardson ET.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Venture Funding: Signals of Environmental Orientation and Their Interplay With Investor‐ and Country‐Level Characteristics

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmentally oriented ventures pursue a dual mission: to create both environmental and financial value. This dual mission adds complexity and can influence ventures' funding prospects, as investors mostly pursue financial motivations.
David Flore, Corinna Vera Hedwig Schmidt, Steffen Strese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

"She held my hand and advised me": Young migrants' experiences of individual peer support to access health and social services in two small towns in southwestern Uganda. [PDF]

PLOS Glob Public Health
Tumwesige E, Kawuma R, Asiimwe A, Nabimanya P, Nakate S, Bernays S, Seeley J.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Green Innovation and Firm Efficiency: The Role of Institutional Quality in Italian High‐Tech Manufacturing Sectors

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino, Sandro Rondinella, Marianna Succurro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expanding the ethnic and geographic spectrum of hereditary pancreatitis: first report of a Tibetan case with compound <i>SPINK1</i> variants. [PDF]

Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr
Chen Y, Yu Z, Li J, Ciren Y, Wang Q, Wu D.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Cost of Debt: Evidence From European Firms Under Mandatory and Voluntary Disclosure

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Considering the growing attention to sustainability and the increasing regulatory pressure in the European landscape, this study evaluates whether greenhouse gas emissions affect firms' cost of debt. A panel regression was conducted from 2021 to 2024 on two samples of European firms.
Daniela Cicchini, Pasquale De Luca, Salvatore Principale, Chiara Signore   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multidimensional factors influencing continuance usage intention of university library self-service systems: An empirical analysis based on an extended TAM-UTAUT. [PDF]

PLoS One
Cao K, Wang P, Zhang C, Zhao J.
europepmc   +1 more source