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Digital Transformation for Sustainable Development of SMEs: A Systematic Review of ‘How We Know,’ ‘What We Know’ and Research Agenda

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) are expected to contribute more significantly to the sustainability agenda. Digital transformation (DT) has the potential to enable SMEs to fulfil their sustainable development goals. However, SMEs encounter unique challenges in leveraging DT for sustainability due to their size, limited resources and
Phuc G. Le, Duyen Chu, Thomas Domboka, Hien Nguyen   +3 more
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A Cognitive -Semantic Study of Love Metaphor in Mawlawi Poems

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
This study is entitled "A Cognitive Semantic Study of Love Metaphor in Mawlawi Poems". It is an attempt to construe the semantic aspects of Mawlawi's poetic texts in light of the cognitive semantic approach. The study, through a linguistic and cognitive
Karzan Abdullah Jezhny
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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
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As metáforas primárias na aquisição da linguagem: um estudo interlingüístico Primary metaphores in language acquisition an interlinguistic study

DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2007
Este trabalho apresenta um estudo interlingüístico e evolutivo da compreensão de oito metáforas primárias sob a perspectiva da Teoria da Metáfora Conceitual. Os dados foram obtidos através de entrevistas com crianças de 3 a 10 anos de idade, monolíngües,
Maity Siqueira, Regina Ritter Lamprecht
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Consumer Adoption of Internet of Things

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 673-693, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The Internet of Things (IoT), a pivotal technology in enhancing user connectivity, faces a paradox: its widespread potential yet limited consumer adoption. This study addresses this dichotomy by synthesizing a large‐scale meta‐analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) and hierarchical linear meta‐analysis (HiLMA) of 2736 effect sizes from ...
Wagner Junior Ladeira, Weng Marc Lim, Fernando de Oliveira Santini, Tareq Rasul, Bernardo Frantz, Jean Carlos de Oliveira Rosa, Mohd Azhar   +6 more
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“A glass half full” or “a breastless dwarf”: Metaphorical talk in women’s accounts of Turner syndrome

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This paper examines body-related metaphors used by Polish women to describe lived experiences associated with Turner syndrome (TS), and highlights the contribution this form of analysis can make to the study of health, emotional well-being, and social ...
Kamila Ciepiela
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Metaphors We Die By: George Lakoff’s “Metaphors Of Terror”

Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2002
George Lakoff’s response to September 11, “Metaphors of Terror,” first appeared in the on-line magazine In These Times of October 29, 2001. In it he introduces himself as a “metaphor analyst”; yet his metaphor analysis has only minimal bearing on his ...
Franklin E. Horowitz
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All Quiet on the Luxury Front: How and When Sustainability Labels Influence Purchase Behavior

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As luxury brands launch sustainability initiatives and products, they face significant challenges, including the need to effectively communicate their practices to consumers. The current research draws on semiotics theory to explore how and when distinct types of sustainability labels, indexical and iconic, enhance brand authenticity ...
Shelly Rathee, Charles R. Taylor, Tyler Milfeld   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sensemaking and CSR Character in Multinational Corporations: A Comparative Study of Headquarters and Subsidiary Practices in the UAE

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship assumes that organizational consistency signals effectiveness, there remains a knowledge gap about how MNCs navigate competing institutional logics between headquarters and subsidiaries. This study investigates how managerial sensemaking mediates the effects of institutional pressures on ...
Charles Antony Diab, Wendy Stubbs
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A Framework for Impression Management in Extra‐Financial Reporting

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how organisations employ impression management tactics in extra‐financial reporting, particularly in the context of environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns. As stakeholder scrutiny and regulatory expectations intensify, organisations increasingly shape non‐financial disclosures to influence perceptions of ...
Laura Ribeiro, Nirupa Padia, Dusan Ecim, Warren Maroun   +3 more
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