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What Types of Knowledge‐Intensive Business Services Use Services as a Source of Innovation?

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines the factors that influence why knowledge‐intensive business services (KIBS) draw from other KIBS firms in their innovation activities. We provide new empirical evidence on specific firm‐level conditions under which the interactions between KIBS–KIBS are more (or less) likely to be observed. The effects of internal resources,
David Doloreux, Anthony Frigon, Ekaterina Turkina   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Family Dynamics, Human Resource Practices and the Performance of Family Firms

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the impact of formalizing human resource (HR) practices on the performance of family firms. It also examines how family involvement in ownership and management, along with the presence of family employees, moderates this relationship.
Gregorio Sánchez‐Marín, Antonio J. Carrasco‐Hernández, Eloisa Vicente‐Sánchez, Ignacio Danvila‐del‐Valle   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Space-Economic Representation of Transitive Closures in Relational Databases [PDF]

Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2006
A composite object represented as a directed graph (digraph for short) is an important data structure that requires efficient support in CAD/CAM, CASE, office systems, software management, web databases, and document databases. It is cumbersome to handle
Yangjun Chen
doaj  

Board Cultural Diversity and ESG Disclosure: Unveiling the Mediating Power of CSR Committees in Family Firms

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of board cultural diversity on ESG disclosure in family firms, exploring the mediating role of the CSR committee. Using a sample of 298 listed European non‐financial family firms (2013–2022) and 2SLS models, we demonstrate that cultural diversity is positively associated with ESG disclosure, and the presence of a
Anna Maria Moisello, Pietro Gottardo, Giovanna Gavana   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making News Media Ownership Chains Transparent by Relational Databases

Comunicação e Sociedade
The multi-tiered shareholder identification and registration systems are dominant within the European Union member States, but in the Nordic countries, the holding structure is based on a direct holding model. Share registers of all listed companies are
Marko Junkkari, Marko Ala-Fossi, Mikko Grönlund   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patterns and Drivers of Spanish Corporate Commitment to the UN Global Compact: A Quantitative Approach

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a quantitative assessment of Spanish companies' commitment to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Analyzing over 1000 participating firms, we identify prioritization patterns and examine structural factors influencing SDG adherence.
Juan Laborda, Juan Pérez
wiley   +1 more source

Ontop: Answering SPARQL queries over relational databases

Semantic Web, 2016
Diego Calvanese, Benjamin Cogrel, Sarah Komla-Ebri, R. Kontchakov, D. Lanti, Martín Rezk, M. Rodriguez-Muro, Guohui Xiao   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

When Diversity Meets Family Owners: ESG Performance in European Publicly Listed Firms

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how the interaction between board diversity and family as owners shapes firms' ESG performance. Prior research has established that board diversity fosters more informed, ethical, and stakeholder‐oriented decision‐making, thereby enhancing corporate legitimacy and responsiveness to diverse stakeholder expectations ...
Giorgia Maria D'Allura, Mariasole Bannò, Chiara Leggerini, Federica Romano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

ESG Divergence and Ownership Imbalance: Rethinking Sustainability Value Creation in Mergers and Acquisitions

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how mergers and acquisitions (M&As) affect post‐deal sustainability outcomes by introducing the novel construct of ESG divergence, defined as the distance between acquirer and target firms' pre‐deal ESG profiles. While M&As are increasingly used to accelerate sustainability integration, their ESG impact remains ambiguous ...
Ilaria Galavotti, Donatella Depperu
wiley   +1 more source

Migration of a web service back-end from a relational to a document-oriented database

, 2018
Sebastian Georg Drenckberg, Marius Politze   +1 more
openalex   +1 more source