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Corporate ESG Greenwashing: Does Regulatory Proximity Matter?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) greenwashing undermines sustainable development, yet the influence of regulatory proximity on oversight is understudied. By introducing the “distance decay effect” from geoeconomics into ESG misconduct research and using a sample of Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2022, this study reveals a ...
Weiqi Zhao +4 more
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Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid growing global attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG), this study examines the misalignment between ESG disclosures and actual practices—termed ‘lip service’—using data from Chinese firms from 2006 to 2022, constructing an index to quantify it.
Jia Xu, Mingwei Liu, Helen X. H. Bao
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Combining ability and heterosis studies for grain yield and its component traits in maize (Zea mays L.) [PDF]
Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 2014 Combining ability analysis was conducted using line x tester design with twelve diverse inbred lines of maize for yield and its contributing traits. Five inbred lines viz.
C. Kapoor, S. Lata and J.K. Sharma
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the critical role that state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) can play in the green transition, relatively little is known about governments' environmental behavior as foreign shareholders. This study examines the effect of state ownership on domestic and foreign environmental performance.
Pablo Torres, Germà Bel, Marc Esteve
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Studies on flowering behavior and seed yield of BC4F1 hybrid progenies in Jatropha [PDF]
Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 2010 Field investigation was carried out by the Centre of Excellence in Biofuels, TNAU, Coimbatore during kharif 2009, tostudy the number of male and female flowers per cluster and seed yield per plant in BC4F1 progenies of Jatropha.
Umamaheswari.D, K.Sumathi, R.Jude Sudhagar, P.S.Devanand, PL. Viswanathan and M.Paramathma
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Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology, 2023 The successful transfer of R-cytoplasm (Ogura)-induced cytoplasmic male sterility has aroused great interest in the development of hybrids in cabbage. An experiment was conducted from 2018 to 2020 to study the per se performance and estimate heterosis in
H R Impa, Ramesh Kumar, R. K. Dogra
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines sectoral heterogeneity in corporate biodiversity disclosure (CBD) among Chinese listed firms over the period 2001–2023. Drawing on stakeholder, institutional, and resource dependency theories, it investigates how environmental exposure, ownership structures, and market dynamics influence biodiversity risk recognition and ...
Orkun Bayram +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether CEO risk orientation shapes environmental sustainability disclosure (ESD) and how institutional constraints condition this relationship. We argue that environmental disclosure constitutes a strategic exposure decision because greater transparency can increase regulatory scrutiny and stakeholder pressure.
Muhammad Jameel Hussain +3 more
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Free Trade Zones and Corporate ESG: Evidence From a Quasi‐Natural Experiment in China
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how China's Pilot Free Trade Zones (FTZs) influence corporate ESG performance. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences model on Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2024, we combine coarsened exact matching (CEM) and geography‐based instrumental variables to ensure robust identification.
Wen Li, Yinghan Zhao, Brian Lucey
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Analysis of testers with broad and narrow genetic base for topcrosses in popcorn breeding
Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology, 2004 Three testers (three-way hybrid Zélia, single-cross hybrid IAC 112 and composite CMS 43) were compared in the evaluation of the combining ability of 36 popcorn S> families obtained from CMS 43.
RJB Pinto +7 more
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