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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study examined teachers' perspectives on how children benefit from time in nature, how disadvantage shapes access and the role of schools in facilitating such access. Drawing on interviews conducted in 2022 with 25 UK primary school teachers who participated in Generation Wild, a nature connection programme for schools in economically ...
Nicola Parkin +6 more
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Giants at the Gate: On the Cross-section of Private Equity Investment Returns [PDF]
We examine the determinants of private equity returns using a newly constructed database of 7,500 investments worldwide over forty years. The median investment IRR (PME) is 21% (1.3), gross of fees.
Gottschalg, Olivier +2 more
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Does the tenure of private equity investment improve the performance of European firms? [PDF]
, 2010 The paper investigates whether the presence and tenure of Private Equity (PE) investment in European companies improves their performance. Previous studies documented the unambiguous merit of a buyout during the 1980s and 1990s for listed firms in the US
Badunenko, Oleg +2 more
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Leraning, life-cycle and entrepreneurial investment [PDF]
In this paper, present a calibrated model of life-cycle occupation and investment decisions where households choose between paid work and entrepreneurship and conditional on the latter how much of their savings to invest in their business. The returns to
Claudio Campanale
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Productivity Growth in Private–Equity–Backed Family Firms
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2016 We study the reluctance of family firms to accept private equity (PE) investors and the impact of PE on family firms’ performance. We analyze the productivity growth in a sample of 257 PE–backed family firms, 143 of which were run by the founding generation. We compare these firms with both non–PE–backed family firms and non family PE–backed firms. We
CROCE, ANNALISA, J. Martí Pellon
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article evaluates the average business performance of construction firms across Spain's 17 autonomous communities within a decentralised governance framework. A regional composite sustainability index is developed, integrating economic, social and environmental intensity indicators.
Francisco José Castillo‐Díaz +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This systematic review analyzes 109 studies from top business journals, exploring the connection between leadership and sustainability, including key leadership styles, emerging trends, and challenges in integrating sustainability into organizational strategies and operations.
Muzhar Javed +3 more
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Operationalising Sufficiency in an Organisational Context: A Systematic Literature Review
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Efficiency‐led sustainability is important but often fails to deliver absolute reductions in resource use, leaving organisations exposed to rebound effects. What remains underexplored is how sufficiency, the strategic limitation of consumption and resource use, is operationalised within organisational contexts.
Shahrokh Nikou +2 more
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Do Private Equity Firms Foster Innovation? Evidence from French LBOs [PDF]
Agency theory has historically presented buyouts as a superior governance framework that generates economic efficiencies in the short term but these transactions might have a negative impact on long-term growth and innovation.
Anne-Laure Le Nadant +1 more
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European Ports as Energy Hubs: A Sustainability Index to Assess Territorial Development
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The capacity of ports to act as energy hubs is increasingly relevant in light of sustainability challenges and global crises like the Ukraine conflict, the COVID‐19 pandemic and energy scarcity. Numerous international and national initiatives are shaping the future of port development to address environmental and economic concerns.
Paolo Mazzocchi +3 more
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