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The Evolution and Integration of ESG Reporting: A Framework for Sustainable Business Accountability

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how multinational corporations incorporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting frameworks to foster trust, enhance legitimacy, and move beyond mere symbolic disclosure. A qualitative comparison of Microsoft and Unilever from 2020 to 2023 assesses how both firms integrate leading standards, including GRI ...
Gabriela Marques Alves Aguiar
wiley   +1 more source

Discursive Governance and Development Goals: A Performative Theory of Corporate Purpose in Sustainability Discourse

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study theorises and empirically tests performative purpose alignment theory (PPAT), which conceptualises corporate purpose as a performative artefact materialised through discursive and multimodal signals. To operationalise this, we introduced the SDG–Purpose Alignment Index (SPAI), a computational construct that quantifies the thematic ...
Augustine Okeke, Ifeanyi Ugbebor
wiley   +1 more source

Orchestrating Circularity in UK Accident Repair: An Intermediary Perspective on Green Parts and Reverse Logistics

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the drivers and barriers shaping the adoption of salvaged automotive components (‘green parts’) in the UK accident repair sector and evaluates the strategic implications for intermediary firms in fragmented service ecosystems.
Gu Pang, Hui Sun, Sean Geens, Yeunsoo Park   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive Decline on the Bench: A Text Analysis of the Opinions of Justice Stephen Field

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper uses text analysis to understand how cognitive decline affected the opinion writing of Justice Stephen Field over the course of his career. Justice Field is used as a case study because of his lengthy tenure, the fact he did not have law clerks to write opinions for him, and because it is widely known he was senile for the last part
Mikel A. Norris
wiley   +1 more source

Persuasive negotiation for autonomous agents: A rhetorical approach [PDF]

, 2003
Persuasive negotiation occurs when autonomous agents exchange proposals that are backed up by rhetorical arguments (such as threats, rewards, or appeals).
Sierra, C, Sierra, C., Ramchurn, S.D., Jennings, N. R., Ramchurn, SD, Jennings, NR   +5 more
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Inclusive or Inauthentic? Consumer Scepticism Towards LGBTQ‐Themed Cause‐Related Marketing

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cause‐related marketing (CRM) is widely used to signal corporate social responsibility and engage ethically motivated consumers, yet its effectiveness remains contested in identity‐sensitive domains such as LGBTQ inclusion. Drawing on Social Identity Theory and Attribution Theory, this research examines how LGBTQ cause identification ...
Wilson N. Ndasi
wiley   +1 more source

Medicine, market and communication: ethical considerations in regard to persuasive communication in direct-to-consumer genetic testing services. [PDF]

BMC Med Ethics, 2018
Schaper M, Schicktanz S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sustainable Luxury: Understanding Consumer Responses to Purpose‐Driven Brand Strategies

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study examines the dilemma faced by consumers in balancing the concepts of sustainability and luxury in the context of self‐gifting. The research is based on the Affect‐Behavior‐Cognition (ABC) framework and the Consumer‐Brand Identification (CBI) theory, which seeks to understand how the perceived sustainability–luxury fit and brand ...
Subhajit Pahari, Munmun Patra, Kiran Menghani, Park Thaichon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Influence of Aesthetic Liking on Product Evaluation: How and When It Differs With Brand Strength and Product Type

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research provides comprehensive insight into the influence of aesthetic liking on product preference across different types of durable product categories by uncovering the underlying process. Distinguishing a direct expressive influence of aesthetic liking and an indirect influence as a quality signal, referring to signaling theory, we ...
Mariëlle E. H. Creusen, Ruth Mugge, Jan P. L. Schoormans   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Good Deeds for Self‐Gain? How Self‐Enhancement Motivates Pro‐Environmental Behaviour in Entitled Consumers

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While personality traits often influence individuals' willingness to engage in prosocial and pro‐environmental behaviours, psychological entitlement tends to undermine such actions. Although extensive research has highlighted the negative social consequences of entitlement, including its impact on pro‐environmental behaviours, its potential to
Alexandra Polyakova
wiley   +1 more source