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Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford +2 more
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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 +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid increasing environmental and economic pressures, Africa's transition to a circular economy (CE) presents a vital pathway to inclusive, low‐carbon development. Yet, how digital transformation, informal innovation, and science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy readiness shape CE outcomes remains underexplored.
Emmanuel K. Manu +2 more
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Implicitness as a systemic phenomenon: theoretical foundations and manifestations in legal contracts [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистикиThe paper examines instrumental implicitness in legal contracts as a mechanism for strategic risk allocation and establishing asymmetric power relations between parties.
Elena V. Shelestyuk
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The governance of chemicals and nanomaterials presents a critical challenge, as significant uncertainties regarding safety and sustainability match their innovation potential. This creates a “knowledge‐to‐action” gap, hindering the practical implementation of safety and sustainability by design (SSbD) principles.
Mario Miozza +4 more
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, 1994 This article reflects that perhaps unfortunate bias, and is concerned primarily with formal models of presupposition projection. Other important issues, such as the nature of presupposition itself, the reasons for there being presuppositions in language,
David Ian Beaver
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Formalising Sustainability Management as a Core Process Group in Project Management
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability has become a strategic imperative for organisations, yet widely used project management standards such as the PMBoK sixth and seventh editions still do not formalise how sustainability should be embedded across project work. This gap matters because PMBoK‐based processes shape governance, roles, documentation and performance ...
Cinzia Dessi +3 more
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Towards an explanation of copula effects
, 2013 This paper deals with a series of semantic contrasts between the copula "be" and the preposition "as", two functional elements that both head elementary predication structures. It will be argued that the meaning of "as" is a type lowering device shifting
Jäger, Gerhard
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Presuppositional implicatures: quantity or maximize presupposition?
, 2019 Schlenker (2012) proposes that when framed within a modern Stalnakerian view of presupposition and common ground (Stalnaker, 1998, 2002), Maximize Presupposition!
Schwarz, Bernhard, Rouillard, Vincent
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite increasing adoption of sustainable business models, environmental decline and social disparities continue to accelerate. Strong sustainable business models offer an alternative by prioritizing ecological limits and systemic change. Drawing on an integrative literature review and business model modularization, this study examines how ...
Maike Gossen +3 more
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