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Can Private Equity Deliver on Its Societal Ambitions? What We Know and Don't Know About Environmental, Social, and Governance Factor Integration in Private Equity

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Private equity (PE) firms increasingly integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in investment decisions and raise impact funds to address sustainability challenges. We review and integrate the growing body of literature on why, when, and how PE fund managers incorporate ESG factors into their investment strategies and ...
Tjarda Molenaar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Validated Signalling: How Ownership Structure Enhances ESG Disclosure Credibility in an Emerging Market

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While signalling theory predicts that ESG disclosure reduces information asymmetry and supports forward‐looking firm valuation, this relationship remains contested in emerging markets with concentrated ownership. Using a panel of 84 Turkish listed firms over 2014–2024 (924 firm‐years) and two‐step system GMM, we examine whether business groups,
Ajab Khan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Pension Rules Affect Work and Contribution Patterns: A Behavioral Model of the Chilean Privatized Pension System [PDF]

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Chile has been at the forefront of pension reform, having switched in 1980 from a pay-as-you-go system to a fully funded privatized accounts system. The Chilean system served as a model for reform in many other Latin American countries and has also been ...
Viviana Vélez-Grajales, Petra Todd
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Sustainability as a Defensive Strategy: ESG, Risk Exposure, and Returns in US Stocks

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyzed the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics, financial risk, and expected returns in the US stock market, using data from S&P 500 companies over the period from 2007 to 2022 using aggregate ESG scores from Refinitiv (LSEG).
Gabriel da Rosa Janone   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Firm‐Level Climate Risk and Stock Price Crash: Does Investor Attention or Sentiment Matter?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study moves beyond traditional crash‐risk channels focused on managerial bad‐news hoarding to examine how firm‐level climate risk translates into stock price crashes through investor behaviour. Using a novel text‐based measure of climate exposure extracted from earnings call transcripts, we capture firm‐specific regulatory, physical and ...
Hoa Phan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reforms of Pension System in Lithuania

open access: yesEkonomika, 2004
Lithuania, like other Central European countries, undergoes a deep reform of the old age security system. The reform takes place in a controversial cognitive environment. The controversy is between methodological individualism and methodological holism as peculiar worldviews. The two world outlooks provide different reform perceptions and scenarios.
openaire   +3 more sources

Kazakhstan's Pension System: Pressures for Change and Dramatic Reforms [PDF]

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Five years ago, Kazakhstan embarked on a dramatic reform of its pension and social security system in order to move from an unsustainable public defined benefit ("solidarity") system to one of defined mandatory contributions (accumulative system).
Seitenova, Ai-Gul S., Becker, Charles M.
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Beyond a Technocentric Transition: A Diverse Economies Perspective for Social Justice in Circular Economy Business Models

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The circular economy, dominated by capitalocentric, technocentric, and eco‐modernist discourses, risks perpetuating systemic injustice because of its limited consideration of the social and of what is possible. In this article, we examine how social justice can be embedded into circular business models (CBMs)—key drivers of the circular ...
Fernando C. Lit   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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