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Do ESG Leaders Achieve Higher Firm Financial Performance? The Influence of Women Directors and Controversial Industries

open access: yesBusiness 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
wiley   +1 more source

Current Trends and Future Research in Management Control for Sustainability in Retail

open access: yesBusiness 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
wiley   +1 more source

Presidential Rhetoric: How John Adams and George W. Bush Used Religion to Effectively Communicate with Their Respective Constituency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
President George W. Bush’s affiliation with the conservative and political Christian right helped him win the presidential elections of 2000 and 2004. During the past six years, Bush has courted this vast voting public by referencing Christian doctrine ...
Fisher, Beth
core   +1 more source

Takeover Vulnerability and the Discipline of ESG Overinvestment

open access: yesBusiness 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
wiley   +1 more source

Beautiful Disease: The Story of Angelina Jolie’s Mastectomy in the American Media [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In 2013 Angelina Jolie revealed in a New York Times editorial that she underwent a preventive double mastectomy earlier that year. This qualitative study examines the social meaning of that Times piece.
Michel, Angie
core   +1 more source

Zero Deforestation Commitments and Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies: An Analysis of Their Role in Mitigating Deforestation

open access: yesBusiness 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
wiley   +1 more source

Desire spiritual gifts that edify: A text-generated persuasion of 1 Corinthians 14:1–40

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia
Paul’s first epistle to the Corinthian church details the various problems it faced, with the primary issue in 1 Corinthians 14 being the use of spiritual gifts. Churches today are not free from similar issues, making Paul’s letter particularly relevant,
Tsholofelo J. Kukuni
doaj   +1 more source

THE RHETORICAL STRUCTURE AND COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES OF THESTUDENTS’ REQUESTS IN THE WEB DISCUSSION FORUM [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper is to describe the rhetorical structure and the communicative strategies that students use in the web discussion forum of Ma Chung University.
Ginting, Daniel
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Beyond Greenwashing: Impact of Circular Economy Practices on Green Collaborative Practices and Sustainable Supply Chain Integration Through Green Value Co‐Creation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the influence of circular economy practices, as a manifestation of corporate social responsibility, on green value co‐creation and its subsequent effects on green collaborative practices and sustainable supply chain integration between providers and customers.
Adriana Santos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rhetoric Demystified

open access: yesRevue des Sciences Humaines, 2019
Since its inception by the Greek scholars up until the contemporary times,the termrhetorichas undertaken a plethora of meanings. Those meanings have mainly been associated with what caused its flourishment in the Greek and Roman periods, decay in the ...
Rima MEDJEOUB
doaj  

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