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Who Qualifies to Assure? The Professional and Managerial Capture of Sustainability Assurance

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the qualification of assurors in sustainability and environmental reporting assurance (SERA) is constructed and why it remains fiercely contested. Drawing on actor–network theory (ANT) and qualitative evidence from regulators, NGOs, assurors and reporting companies in India, we conceptualise ‘qualification’ as a ...
Flavia Rodricks   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating Carbon Accounting in Manufacturing From Compliance to Decarbonisation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Carbon accounting is increasingly mandated in manufacturing; however, its implementation remains fragmented between corporate reporting and product‐level assessments, limiting its effectiveness for decarbonisation. This study analyses the regulatory landscape in the United Kingdom and the European Union, identifying a structural misalignment ...
Natanael Bolson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relative clauses in a spoken corpus of European Portuguese: identifying the factors determining their variation

open access: yesLinguística, 2017
This paper investigates a range of factors determining variation in European Portuguese (EP) relative clauses on the basis of a corpus study. From a more general perspective, we aim at empirically confirming or disconfirming generalizations ...
Elisabeth Aßmann, Esther Rinke
doaj  

Chinese Relative Clauses as Reduced (Participial) Relative Clauses

open access: yesResearching and Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
The two possible positions of relative clauses (RCs) in Chinese (the pre-demonstrative one and the post-demonstrative, post-numeral and post-classifier one: <RC1> – Demonstrative – Numeral – Classifier – <RC2> – AP- Noun) have, since Chao's (1968) characterization of RC1 as “restrictive” and RC2 as “descriptive” (nonrestrictive), made ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Anchoring Corporate Climate Action: Credible Commitments and the Internal Governance of Private Standard‐Setters

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corporate climate commitments depend partly on the credibility of the institutions that define and validate them. This article examines the Science Based Targets initiative as a key private standard‐setter in polycentric climate governance.
Marybel Perez, Alejandro Agafonow
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of Digital Resources and Information Sharing on Supply Chain Sustainability

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although supply chain digitalization has received considerable research attention, the mechanisms through which digital resources contribute to sustainability outcomes are not fully understood. This study examines how digital technologies, particularly big data analytics (BDA), support sustainability practices and performance in supply chains ...
Mika Immonen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

HEADLESS RELATIVE CLAUSES IN PESH

open access: yes, 2020
International audienceThe aim of this study is to describe the two main kinds of headless relative clauses that are attested in Pesh, a Chibchan language spoken in Honduras: free relative clauses, which use a wh-word that functions as a relative pronoun ...
Chamoreau, Claudine
core   +1 more source

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