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Ethical Behaviour and Corporate Financing. The Case of ‘Legality Rating’

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The financial crisis has heightened awareness of ethical and legal issues in the business context. Corporate ethical behaviour is increasingly measured through sustainability ratings. Since 2012, in Italy, the introduction of a sustainability rating, namely the legality rating (LR), has served as an innovative ‘label’ for socially responsible ...
Federica Doni, Lucio Masserini, Zeila Occhipinti, Roberto Verona   +3 more
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Romanian restrictive relatives: A head raising analysis?

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2010
The paper investigates the syntax of restrictive relative clauses from a mainly descriptive viewpoint. It offers a critical view of the head raising analysis (Kayne 1994) and shows that no conclusive evidence supports the application of this analysis to ...
Anca Sevcenco
doaj  

Collaborating for Circularity: A Relational View Perspective on Buyer–Supplier Relationships in Restorative and Regenerative Supply Chains

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Industrial firms are required to redesign their supply chains into restorative and regenerative archetypes, rethinking not only their own production systems but also relationships with suppliers that may possess resources, capabilities, and knowledge too complex to be developed on their own but vital for circular value creation.
Francesco Cafforio, Giovanni Franceco Massari, Ilaria Giannoccaro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Underproduction and Overproduction: Comparison of the Use of English Relative Clauses in Chinese EFL Learners’ and Native Speakers’ Academic Writing

International Journal of Linguistics Literature & Translation
This study investigates Chinese ESL learners’ production of English relative clauses in academic writing with corpus-based methodologies. With the help of a series of retrieval codes for Antconc software designed for the investigation, different types of
Qi Zhao, Shuning Ma
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reusing depleted oil and gas wells for geothermal energy: Feasibility, challenges, and a decision‐making framework for sustainable conversion

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
The graphical abstract presents a structured decision‐support framework for assessing the feasibility of converting depleted oil and gas wells into geothermal energy systems. The left panel illustrates a comprehensive, multi‐stage decision‐making framework progressing from prefeasibility screening and technical–economic analysis to policy alignment ...
Karolina Bieryt, Yu Pan, Heinz Konietzky, Fei Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Competing analyses and differential cost in the production of non-subject relative clauses

Glossa, 2018
The computational cost of restrictive non-subject relative clauses (RCs) in different processing conditions is discussed in relation to competing analyses of RCs.
Letícia M. Sicuro Corrêa, Marina R. A. Augusto, Mercedes Marcilese   +2 more
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Weak crossover in Spanish relative clauses

Probus: International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics
We investigate the status of weak crossover violations (WCO) in Spanish restrictive relative clauses. Claims in the literature lead to the expectation that Spanish does not show sensitivity to WCO in this context; however, ours is the first systematic ...
R. Ranero, Gregory Scontras, M. Polinsky
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Ecological U‐Turn in Nordic Forestry: Policy Learning, Measurement, and the Retrenchment of Ecological Ambitions

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the 1990s, environmental policy has shifted toward ecosystem protection and biodiversity conservation, a development often described as an ecological turn. This article argues that in practice this turn has taken the form of an ecological “U‐turn,” as environmental ambitions are subordinated to production‐oriented objectives.
Gisle Andersen, Monika Berg, Hogne Lerøy Sataøen   +2 more
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A RESEARCH INTO RELATIVE CLAUSES IN ENGINEERING TEXTS

Zbornik radova Islamskog pedagoškog fakulteta u Zenici (Online)
As relative clauses may pose challenges to non-native speakers of English due to theirvarious forms and functions, the paper investigates the differences and similarities in the use ofrelative clauses in the engineering texts between English and Bosnian ...
Aida Tarabar, Đelaludina Šukalić
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Water Governance Under International Pressure: Policy Narratives, Food Security, Scarcity, and the Politics of Survival in Iran

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Water governance is increasingly influenced by a paradox at the nexus of environmental scarcity and food security. Escalating water scarcity crises coincide with geopolitical disruptions that have exposed the fragility of global food supply chains, prompting states to expand domestic food production at the expense of water conservation ...
Alireza Raisi
wiley   +1 more source