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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmentally oriented ventures pursue a dual mission: to create both environmental and financial value. This dual mission adds complexity and can influence ventures' funding prospects, as investors mostly pursue financial motivations.
David Flore +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Given the growing pressure on companies to achieve high ESG performance while minimising ESG controversies, this study investigates how ESG performance and ESG controversies jointly affect firm financial performance (measured as ROA and ROE), considering the effect of the presence of women directors and of operating in controversial versus non‐
Alice Alosi, Emilia Filippi
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Current Trends and Future Research in Management Control for Sustainability in Retail
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The growing emphasis on sustainability in the retail sector, driven by regulatory frameworks, market trends and consumer demand, has placed management control at the forefront of facilitating sustainability practices. Despite increasing academic interest in this area, the literature is fragmented and provides limited sector‐specific insight ...
Miguel Gil, Mart Ots, Timur Uman
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Journal of Language and EducationBackground: The introduction of a research article plays a central role in shaping scientific argumentation. However, this section is often especially prone to stylistic overload, which can obscure the clarity of the author’s position.
Elena Tikhonova +2 more
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Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation
COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Citizenship as a Rhetorical Practice (Christian Kock and Lisa S. Villadsen) -- SECTION I: Tracing Rhetorical Citizenship as Concept and Practice -- Chapter 1: Deliberative Democracy ...
Villadsen, Lisa., Kock, Christian.
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Takeover Vulnerability and the Discipline of ESG Overinvestment
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While takeovers serve a disciplinary role by replacing inefficient managers, the threat of takeovers may compel firms to divert attention from Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts as a strategic response to external pressure, especially when such firms are already overinvesting in ESG.
Abongeh Tunyi +2 more
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Didactic Networks: A proposal for e-learning content generation
, 2010 The Didactic Networks proposed in this paper are based on previous publications in the field of the RSR (Rhetorical-Semantic Relations). The RSR is a set of primitive relations used for building a specific kind of semantic networks for artificial ...
Alamo Lobo, Francisco Javier del +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the role of corporate zero‐deforestation commitments (ZDCs) and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) enabling technologies in mitigating deforestation. Drawing on data from 110 companies included in the Forest 500 dataset, the research explores whether sustainability commitments and digital innovation influence firms' deforestation ...
Valentina Beretta +2 more
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Approaches to Risk and Consumer Policy in Financial Service Regulation in the UK
Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2006 The financial service and communication sectors in the UK have been subject to radical re-organisation, involving the formation of sector-wide regulatory bodies (FSA and Ofcom) with wide-ranging powers and statutory obligations.
Peter Lunt +3 more
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Rhetorical strategies of legitimation: the 9/11 Commission's public inquiry process
, 2012 This research project seeks to explore aspects of the post-reporting phase of the public inquiry process. Central to the public inquiry process is the concept of legitimacy and the idea that a public inquiry provides and opportunity to re-legitimate the ...
Parks, Ryan William
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