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Efficiency and Perceptions in Public CSR: An Integrated Efficiency–Perception Analysis of Spanish Defence Delegations

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public organisations often experience a discrepancy between improvements in technical efficiency and stakeholders' perceptions of integrity and performance. This study analyses the mechanisms that may underlie this efficiency–perception discrepancy in Spanish Defence Delegations during 2020–2023.
José Solana‐Ibáñez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Music as a Science of Mankind in Eighteenth Century Britain,

open access: yes, 2012
Music as a Science of Man offers a philosophical and historical perspective on the intellectual representation of music in British Eighteenth century culture.
SEMI, MARIA
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Dare agli eventi una «istorica forma»: padre Martini e i primordi della storiografia musicale [PDF]

open access: yes
What would the Foundations of Music History look like had they been written by Modern-era authors? Taking Padre Giambattista Martini’s view of music history as a lynchpin of the discussion, the first part of the article argues that some elements Carl ...
Maria Semi, Semi, Maria, Semi M
core   +1 more source

Is It Possible to Create Financial Value Through Sustainability Strategies in Asset Management? The View of Occupational Pension Funds

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Tajikistan: a chronic stagnation. OSW COMMENTARY NUMBER 200/15.03.2016 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Since gaining its independence Tajikistan has faced severe political, economic and social problems. The last several months has seen a clear increase in their intensity.
Lang, Józef
core  

Towards a Biodiversity Positive Business Strategy: The MCRV (Monitoring, Conserving, Restoring, Valorizing) Framework

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite mounting regulatory pressure and growing scientific consensus on biodiversity loss, most corporate action remains reactive, fragmented, and strategically peripheral. Existing frameworks address what firms should report rather than how they can build the organizational capabilities required to act strategically.
Jacopo Cricchio   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Convergence Clubs in Corporate Sustainability: Identifying Industry and Risk‐Level ESG Convergence Patterns in S&P 500 Firms

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the growing emphasis on corporate sustainability, it remains unclear whether firms will align with common ESG standards. The Phillips–Sul convergence methodology, in combination with dynamic time‐warping clustering, was utilized to analyze the ESG trajectories of 430 S&P 500 firms from 2019 to 2024.
Abdullah Kürşat Merter   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Explainable hybrid stacking ensemble method for hard rock pillar stability prediction and engineering applications

open access: yesDeep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This research proposes an interpretable hybrid stacking ensemble framework, optimized by the Sparrow Search Algorithm, to enhance hard rock pillar stability prediction. By integrating six machine learning models—k‐nearest neighbors, support vector machines, random forests, Gradient Boosting Decision Tree, eXtreme Gradient Boosting, and Light Gradient ...
Ning Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Molecular Modification Strategies for CO2 Electroreduction to C2+ Products: Classifications, Mechanisms, Advances, and Perspectives

open access: yesEcoEnergy, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively outlines molecular modification strategies for steering CO2 electroreduction toward C2+ products, including the classification of diverse molecular structures, elucidation of their roles in microenvironment regulation, dissection of C–C coupling pathway engineering, and forward‐looking perspectives on machine learning and ...
Lingling Peng, Hanwen Liu, Tianyou Peng
wiley   +1 more source

Between a soft and a hard place: Southern European gentrification for short-term populations

open access: yes
Focusing on a selected case study in a central area of the city of Turin in north-western Italy, the main aim of this article is to discuss fifth-wave gentrification processes within the framework of austerity urbanism in Southern European cities.
Bolzoni, Magda, Semi, Giovanni
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