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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study theorises and empirically tests performative purpose alignment theory (PPAT), which conceptualises corporate purpose as a performative artefact materialised through discursive and multimodal signals. To operationalise this, we introduced the SDG–Purpose Alignment Index (SPAI), a computational construct that quantifies the thematic ...
Augustine Okeke, Ifeanyi Ugbebor
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All Quiet on the Luxury Front: How and When Sustainability Labels Influence Purchase Behavior
Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As luxury brands launch sustainability initiatives and products, they face significant challenges, including the need to effectively communicate their practices to consumers. The current research draws on semiotics theory to explore how and when distinct types of sustainability labels, indexical and iconic, enhance brand authenticity ...
Shelly Rathee +2 more
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Le texte et le tableau. Zola, L’Œuvre. Cézanne, l’œuvre
Signata, 2014 In the general framework of the relations between semiotics and literature and, more widely, between literary semiotics and plastic language, our aim is to argue, through a concrete case, the contribution of semiotics in the clarification of a literary ...
Denis Bertrand
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms are experiencing mounting pressure to report their environmental impact. Rather than disclosing their actual performance, however, some are engaging in unethical business (i.e., greenwashing) practices. Prior studies have contributed significantly to the greenwashing literature from varied perspectives, but a comprehensive understanding ...
Sher Jahan Khan +4 more
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Quiet activism as feminist practice
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we discuss how women combat silencing in the face of violence and increased political turmoil through quiet activism in their day‐to‐day lives. Centering lengthy conversations with Arab women across London and notes from an ongoing collaboration with a feminist activist based in the US, we examine how wearable rhetorical ...
Vicky Panossian, Catherine A. Evans
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The Film Document as a Testimony of the Present: A Sceptic at the Confessional
Images, 2014 The semiotic mechanism of representing time present in documentary film has remained the same since the 19th century up to this very day. This is governed without exception in the cinematographic “message” by the choice and combination of visual and ...
Marek Hendrykowski
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Discourse, culture and forms of life: the housemaid as the face of Brazilian racism
Signata, 2022 This paper is divided into two parts. The first concerns the discussion, drawing from theory, which aims to present the contours and challenges of contemporary semiotics that focus on new demands from society, attempting to describe and explain how the ...
Matheus Nogueira Schwartzmann
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Designing for biodiversity data in place: Species, encounters, and interfaces
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Species occurrence data, which records the presence of an organism at a point in space and time, is central to environmental science and its opening up to new forms of participation such as citizen science. Such data are increasingly aggregated and mobilised, reaching diverse audiences.
Mitchell Whitelaw +3 more
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Caring with forests: Human and more‐than‐human care in forest occupations in Germany
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on ongoing ethnographic and participatory action research within forest occupations in Germany, this paper develops the concept of ‘caring with forests’ to theorise the mutual, multidimensional relationships of care that emerge between humans and more‐than‐human beings in environmental protest settings.
Sebastian Garbe
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From Proxies to System State: Defining Sustainability Management Against Symbolic Progress
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability in management is often measured through scores, ratings, and disclosure narratives that can reward symbolic progress while leaving underlying social‐ecological conditions unchanged. This perspective paper offers a definition of Sustainability Management as how organizations plan, organize, lead, and control (four management ...
Zhang Yiping, Olaf Weber
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