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Harmonizing Social Impact Assessment in the Bioeconomy: A Cross‐Regional Fuzzy‐Delphi Approach
ABSTRACT The bioeconomy transition risks underrepresenting social sustainability, while existing Social Life Cycle Assessment (S‐LCA) applications remain insufficient for comparison and decision support due to heterogeneous and non‐standardized selection of social impact categories. This study proposes a cross‐regional baseline set of impact categories
Julia Lessa Feitosa Virgolino +2 more
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ABSTRACT This paper examines whether occupational pension funds (OPFs) apply a strategic and long‐term logic when assessing ESG practices in their investee firms. Using discourse analysis of semi‐structured interviews with asset managers and workers' representatives, we examine whether Spanish OPFs look beyond compliance‐driven CSR and consider the ...
Manuel Moreno‐García +3 more
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ABSTRACT Sustainability assessment advances corporate social responsibility toward inclusive development. Widely recognized approaches prove inadequate for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), resulting in fragmented proliferation that hinders cumulative knowledge.
Luísa Couto Gonçalves de Souza +2 more
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ABSTRACT Green bonds play a central role in sustainable finance, yet concerns about greenwashing raise questions about the credibility of issuers' sustainability disclosures. Using dictionary‐based methods and domain‐specific BERT transformer models, this paper proposes two greenwashing alert metrics and investigates their performance by analyzing ...
Andrea Nicolodi +4 more
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ABSTRACT Integrating sustainability not only into corporate strategy and product design is essential to address pressing global challenges. This study proposes a framework that integrates social life cycle assessment (S‐LCA) into time‐driven activity‐based costing (TD‐ABC) to manage both social and economic issues by assessing social impacts across ...
Widiene Essouid +4 more
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A Framework for Impression Management in Extra‐Financial Reporting
ABSTRACT This paper examines how organisations employ impression management tactics in extra‐financial reporting, particularly in the context of environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns. As stakeholder scrutiny and regulatory expectations intensify, organisations increasingly shape non‐financial disclosures to influence perceptions of ...
Laura Ribeiro +3 more
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Impact of Emission Reduction Targets on Corporate Greenwashing: International Empirical Evidence
ABSTRACT This study investigates the influence of emission reduction target characteristics on corporate greenwashing propensity. Through the analysis of 4938 international observations via probit regression, we examine four key dimensions: science‐based validation, target compliance, timeframe, and organizational coverage.
Antonio J. Mateo‐Márquez +2 more
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ABSTRACT This article explores why businesses engage with the United Nations SDG agenda, with a view to understanding how managers construct the business case for the SDGs. Building on and extending the responsibility literature's discussion of the business case for responsibility, the article develops a conceptual framework for analyzing why ...
Michael W. Hansen, Henrik Gundelach
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ABSTRACT Corporate waste generation is a material environmental outcome embedded in firms' production technologies, process design, resource use, and managerial execution. Although boards do not directly manage operational waste, they may shape waste‐related outcomes through strategic oversight, environmental investment approval, target‐setting, and ...
Hala Zaidan +3 more
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ABSTRACT Firms' international revenues help diversify revenue sources and reduce reliance on home markets, yet remain hard to grow given complex regulations, cultural differences and fierce competition. Grounded in the resource‐based view, we argue that social sustainability is a valuable, rare, inimitable and non‐substitutable resource that promotes ...
Ashutosh Singh +3 more
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