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ABSTRACT Over the past decades, sustainability has emerged as a defining global priority, reshaping firms' role in driving systemic change. In this context, corporate purpose has gained renewed prominence as a key mechanism to align organizational priorities with broader societal commitments.
Lucia Barra +2 more
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ABSTRACT This study examines how circular economy (CE) practices relate to supply chain resilience (SCRES), focusing on the capability‐based mechanisms through which CE strategies may influence resilience outcomes. Drawing on survey data from 125 Italian firms engaged in CE initiatives, we employ partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS‐
Roberta Pellegrino +4 more
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Can Credit Rating Changes Affect Corporate Carbon Emissions? Some Evidence From the S&P 500
ABSTRACT Using panel data on US S&P 500 firms from 2012 to 2024, this study examines how credit rating changes affect corporate carbon performance. Drawing on the resource‐based view and prospect theory, we show that credit rating downgrades lead to a statistically and economically significant deterioration in emission reduction scores.
Michal Wojewodzki +4 more
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Provable Security Against a Differential Attack
The purpose of this paper is to show that there exist DES-like iterated ciphers, which are provably resistant against differential attacks. The main result on the security of a DES-like cipher with independent round keys is Theorem 1, which gives an upper bound to the probability of <em>s</em>-round differentials, as defined in <em> ...
Kaisa Nyberg, Lars R. Knudsen
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ABSTRACT What propels a CFO in an emerging economy to champion ESG investments when formal regulations are weak? Moving beyond structural explanations, we provide a behavioural account arguing that a manager's internal ethical compass—moral intelligence (MI)—is a key driver.
AmirHossein ArminKia +4 more
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The Dark Side of AI Readiness? Institutional Logics, Signalling and Carbon Transition Risk
ABSTRACT The influence of institutional environments on corporate sustainability is well established, yet how digital readiness restructures institutional logics and signalling mechanisms through which firms manage carbon transition risk (CTR) remains undertheorised.
Emilia Vann Yaroson +5 more
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A Secure and Efficient Handover Authentication Protocol for Wireless Networks
Handover authentication protocol is a promising access control technology in the fields of WLANs and mobile wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we firstly review an effcient handover authentication protocol, named PairHand, and its existing security
Weijia Wang, Lei Hu
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Strategic Approaches to ESG Reporting: Analysing ESG Disclosures of Listed Companies
ABSTRACT This study adopts an exploratory approach to examine how firms communicate strategic orientation through ESG disclosures. Using a validated dictionary of exploration and exploitation language, we analyse 278 ESG reports from all UAE‐listed companies between 2020 and 2023, classifying ESG disclosures as exploration‐dominant, exploitation ...
Cintia Külzer‐Sacilotto +1 more
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ABSTRACT Corporate sustainability research is rich but fragmented where influential frameworks illuminate important aspects of sustainability dynamics, yet they are often used in parallel rather than connected through a shared explanatory logic of change. This paper addresses that corporate sustainability puzzle through a targeted literature review and
Omaima A. G. Hassan
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Improvement on the XTP public key cryptosystem and communication protocol of provable security
A new trace function was proposed,the XTP public key cryptosystem based on the 3-rd order LFSR se-quence(the so-called XTR3 system) was extended to the XTR4 system based on the 4-th order LFSR sequence.XTR4 key was shorter in length than that of the XTR3
WANG Ze-hui
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