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Online retailer noncompliance to e-cigarette excise tax and tobacco licensing laws. [PDF]

Tob Control
Mejorado T, Ellis S, Harati RM, Satybaldiyeva N, Benitez G, Austin EAC, Leas EC.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

ESG Assurance and Dividends: Evidence From 18 Countries in Africa

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) assurance on a firm's dividend payout policies within the unique African context. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model, this study examines how voluntary third‐party assurance of ESG reports influences firms' dividend payout policies compared to ...
Samuel Karanja Kogi, June Cao
wiley   +1 more source

Asset sales by manufacturing firms in India

In this paper we study 325 large scale asset sale transactions by Indian manufacturing firms in the period 1996 to 2008. We find that the likelihood of asset sales increases with the firm’s low capacity of debt utilisation and decreases with size ...
Gautam, Vikash
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Trajectories and Adaptive Recalibration of Self-Efficacy in Brazilian Medical Students: A Longitudinal Study With Implications for Educational Support. [PDF]

Clin Teach
Quitério AB, Dos Santos Borges W, de Carvalho Engel AMRPVT, Menezes JDS, Dos Santos ER, Martinez WD, da Silva MQ, de Carvalho SRPVT, do Vale Lopes SB, Bianchin MA, Brienze VMS, de Sales Floriano JA, André JC.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Business Framework for Product Take‐Back—A Structured Multiple‐Case Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The potential of take‐back systems remains largely unrealized as initiatives have proven difficult to implement in practice. The question is why we do not see more take‐back systems given the substantial environmental benefits. We try to understand the challenges and stumbling blocks in setting up take‐back from a business perspective.
Rasmus Jørgensen, Torben Pedersen
wiley   +1 more source

Balancing electric vehicle uptake with congestion-related emissions in large Chinese cities. [PDF]

Innovation (Camb)
Huang B, Xia Y, Chen F, Chen XM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Venture Funding: Signals of Environmental Orientation and Their Interplay With Investor‐ and Country‐Level Characteristics

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, Corinna Vera Hedwig Schmidt, Steffen Strese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trends in Antimicrobial Consumption in Pakistan (2016-2028): Retrospective Observational Study With Forecasting. [PDF]

JMIR Public Health Surveill
Saleem Z, Godman B, Akbar Z, Haseeb A, Qamar MU, Rehman AU, Elrggal ME.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Green Innovation and Firm Efficiency: The Role of Institutional Quality in Italian High‐Tech Manufacturing Sectors

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino, Sandro Rondinella, Marianna Succurro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resource‐Centered Transformation Paths: The Role of Digital Transformation in Optimizing SME Resources for Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The critical role of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in driving economic growth through employment generation and innovation cannot go unseen, especially the efforts of small firms in promoting sustainable entrepreneurship. With more market and consumer focus on sustainability and the shift toward eco‐friendly products, SMEs can ...
Nasser Hadi Alajmi
wiley   +1 more source