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Brain Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Residential environments have been linked to brain structure, particularly in children, older adults, and clinical populations. However, little is known about how different dimensions of the housing environment relate to brain white matter microstructure in healthy adults, or whether specific environmental factors show stronger ...
Keisuke Kokubun +3 more
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How Green Public Procurement Contributes to Sustainable Development in China: Evidence from the IISD Green Public Procurement Model [PDF]
, 2015 The People's Republic of China spent more than CNY 1.6 trillion (USD 252 billion) on procurement in 2013, accounting for 11.7 per cent of all national spending (Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China, 2014).
Benjamin Denjean +5 more
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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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International Public Procurement Agreements - Problems of Implemetations in Switzerland [PDF]
Öffentliche Beschaffung, Reform, Public Choice, Wohlfahrtstheorie, Schweiz, Public Procurement, Welfare economics ...
Christoph Kilchenmann +2 more
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Exponential and power laws in public procurement markets
, 2012 For the first time ever, we analyze a unique public procurement database, which includes information about a number of bidders for a contract, a final price, an identification of a winner and an identification of a contracting authority for each of more ...
Kristoufek, Ladislav, Skuhrovec, Jiri
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From Ecosystem Threats to Balance Sheets: Biodiversity Risks Exposure and Corporate Cash Policies
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how firms strategically respond to biodiversity risk by examining their cash holding decisions. Using firm‐level data from China, we find that firm‐level biodiversity risk exposure significantly increases corporate cash holdings.
Jing Hao +4 more
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Building Political Collusion: Evidence from Procurement Auctions [PDF]
We investigate the relationship between the time politicians stay in office and the functioning of public procurement. To this purpose, we collect a data set on the Italian municipal governments and all the procurement auctions they administered between ...
Coviello, Decio, Gagliarducci, Stefano
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Electronic Reverse Auctions: Spawning Procurement Innovation in the Context of Arab Culture [PDF]
, 2016 Government e-procurement initiatives have the potential to transform local institutions, but few studies have been published of strategies for implementing specific e-procurement tools, particularly involving procurement by a foreign government adapting ...
Gravier, Michael J, Hawkins, Timothy G.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study illustrates how organizations reconcile their information processing capabilities with uncertainty within the supply chain (SC) through generative artificial intelligence (GAI) to achieve carbon performance (CP). A quantitative research methodology is applied, and 155 responses from manufacturing firms are analyzed through ...
Syed Muhammad Shariq +3 more
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The UNCITRAL model law: a guide for reforming the legal regulation of public procurement
Halyk̦aralyk̦ k̦atynastar ža̋ne halyk̦aralyk̦ k̦u̇k̦yk̦ seriâsì, 2020 The article presents a General description of the regulation of public procurement by the UNCITRAL Model law on public procurement in 2011 as a tool for interstate integration in this area.
S. Aidarbayev, A. Begzhan
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