Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The necessary environmental transition involves a substantial challenge for micro, small, and medium‐sized enterprises (MSMEs). Moreover, in the Ibero‐American context, it is even more challenging. Our study aims to shed light on the scarce and inconclusive evidence in this regard, analyzing the influence of digitalization, given its inclusion
José Antonio Clemente‐Almendros +2 more
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Coordinated Tax-Tariff Reforms, Informality, and Welfare Distribution [PDF]
The paper studies the revenue, efficiency, and distributional implications of a simple strategy of offsetting tariff reductions with increases in destination-based consumption taxes so as to leave consumer prices unchanged.
Gerard C. van der Meijden +1 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigated whether superior environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices enhance corporate value and market efficiency under various economic theories. Using a multi‐country panel of 31 economies from 2015 to 2022, we find that both ESG performance and disclosure improve intrinsic value and mitigate equity misvaluation ...
Xinyu Wang +5 more
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice on Occupational Safety and Health in the Formal and Informal Sectors - 2024, Freetown, Sierra Leone: A Workplace-Base Survey. [PDF]
Environ Health InsightsSesay BP +5 more
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Economic Growth and Poverty: Does Formalisation of Informal Enterprises Matter? [PDF]
The informal sector (IS) in developing countries plays significant roles viz., the provision of employment, incomes and supplying ignored markets. However, the working and employment conditions in the sector are still poor.
Ishengoma, Esther K., Kappel, Robert
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Retired electric vehicle (EV) batteries can be repurposed to stationary storage batteries. While this circularity solution has attracted attention from entrepreneurs, falling battery prices, along with the longer lifetime of new batteries, high consumer expectations and limited governmental support challenge the approach.
Juliane Seika, Merla Kubli
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Willingness and perceived ability to pay for Uganda's proposed national health insurance scheme among informal sector workers in Iganga and Mayuge districts, Uganda: A contingent valuation method. [PDF]
PLOS Glob Public HealthNamuhani N, Kisakye AN, Kiwanuka SN.
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies [PDF]
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on the number and size of firms in the formal and informal sectors, as well as on relative wages, relative size of the two sectors and overall unemployment. We show that entry costs in
Cristina Terra +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study assesses the degree of alignment with and eligibility to the EU Taxonomy of non‐financial firms and investigates its relationship with their Cost of Debt (CoD). The empirical analysis is based on a sample of 306 non‐financial firms listed on the Stoxx Europe 600 Index across 15 European countries. Taxonomy‐related data were manually
Fabio Rizzato +3 more
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Healthcare workers' and managers' uses of mobile phone messaging applications (apps) in their daily work in South Africa: a survey. [PDF]
Oxf Open Digit HealthLewin S +5 more
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