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Does innovation success need advocacy? Stakeholder involvement in firm innovation

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Prior research documents that firms often collaborate with advocacy groups to mitigate stakeholder contention. Integrating stakeholder theory into a performance model of collaborative innovation, we propose an overlooked explanation for such collaborations: to enhance the adoption of firms' innovations.
Paolo Carioli, Christoph Grimpe, Karin Hoisl, Wolfgang Sofka   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The agency of global sustainability certifications in developing countries: the Rainforest Alliance and the Sri Lankan tea industry [PDF]

, 2018
This study investigates how a private, voluntary North American-based sustainability certification, Rainforest Alliance, is implemented in the Sri Lankan tea industry. A case study is developed from an extensive six month period of fieldwork in Sri Lanka.
Munasinghe, Munasinghe Amila Thusha Kumari
core   +4 more sources

Understanding Mammalian Habitat Use With a Multi‐Species, Multi‐Scale Approach: The Jaguar Protection Corridor in Guaviare, Colombia

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
We applied a multi‐scale, multi‐species framework to quantify how landscape structure and human infrastructure influence habitat use across a terrestrial mammal community within a biological corridor in the Colombian Amazon. Forest cover and spatial configuration influenced wildlife habitat use at spatial scales associated with species dispersal ...
Gabriel P. Andrade‐Ponce, Eduardo Molina‐González, Jaime Andrés Cabrera   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Information Regulation of Business Actors

AJIL Unbound, 2017
A transnational legal order (TLO) is emerging regarding the role of businesses in respecting human rights. This legal order includes multistakeholder initiatives, international organization recommendations and guidelines, NGO certifications, and other ...
Kishanthi Parella
doaj   +1 more source

Monsters of finance

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract An anthropology of horror can serve as a vernacular critique of financial speculation. Drawing on fieldwork in San Pedro, Paraguay, I track horror across three registers: pombero tricksters; plata yvyguy (buried money) as a founding myth of postwar finance; and obligations binding sesame farmers to monsters, patrones, and creditors.
Caroline E. Schuster
wiley   +1 more source

Taxonomic and Functional Diversity of Flower-Visiting Insects in Coffee Crops

Insects
Despite the important role that flower-visiting insects play in agricultural production, none of the previous studies of coffee pollinators in Colombia have incorporated functional diversity into their analysis.
Juan Diego Maldonado-Cepeda, Jesús Hernando Gómez, Pablo Benavides, Juliana Jaramillo, Zulma Nancy Gil   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A revised classification system of the marronoid clade of spiders (Araneae), based on dense sampling phylogenomics and comparative morphology

Cladistics, EarlyView.
Abstract The marronoid clade is a globally distributed, ecologically diverse group of spiders. It is an important faunal component in both natural and synanthropic environments, and even found in aquatic and extreme habitats such as desert salt flats. The systematics of the marronoid clade has been notoriously unstable due to the widespread character ...
Jonas O. Wolff, Michael B. J. Kelly, Franklyn Cala‐Riquelme, Jacob A. Gorneau, Katherine O. Montana, Helen M. Smith, Phil J. Sirvid, Cor J. Vink, Lauren A. Esposito, Martín J. Ramírez, Charles E. Griswold   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Connecting conservation communities: From social network analysis to practical application

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
This study explores how social network mapping and analysis can be applied to support community‐based conservation practice, and what benefits and challenges emerge in doing so, enlisting the Northern Rivers, New South Wales, Australia as a case study. Drawing on desktop analysis, 51 semi‐structured interviews, and 50 meetings and open interviews, the ...
Naomi Ploos van Amstel, Brendan Mackey, Kerrie Foxwell‐Norton, Pazit Taygfeld   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable Tourism at the Rainforest Alliance: Global Partnerships Benefit Economies and Ecosystems in Latin America [PDF]

Culture & Arts, Rainforest Alliance, Economies and Ecosystems in Latin ...
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Rainforest Alliance   +1 more
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National and voluntary sustainability standards: Convergence or divergence? Insights from Indonesian agri-food export sectors

Earth System Governance
Voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) are market-based mechanisms promoting sustainability in agri-food value chains. VSS can create challenges related to compliance, market access and acceptance for producers in emerging countries.
Muhamad Amin Rifai, Charline Depoorter, Nunung Nuryartono, Miet Maertens, Axel Marx   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source