Barriers to the Adoption of Circular Economy Business Models in the Indian Textile Industry
ABSTRACT The Indian textile industry has significant negative impacts on the environment. This industry needs to adopt a circular economy approach to become more sustainable; however, progress on this has been limited. In this study, we report on the barriers to adoption of Circular Economy Business Models (CEBMs) in the Indian textile industry.
Himanshu Chandra +2 more
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Board Networks and Corporate Carbon Emissions: A Cross‐Country Analysis of Causal Effects
ABSTRACT This study examines whether board networks influence corporate carbon emissions and the strategic pathways through which firms decarbonize. Using a sample of 1952 firms across 48 countries from 2003 to 2020, we employ dynamic stacked regressions that exploit exogenous carbon‐regulation shocks affecting firms connected through shared third ...
Katarzyna Burzynska +3 more
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Industrialization and Urbanization: Did the Steam Engine Contribute to the Growth of Cities in the United States? [PDF]
Industrialization and urbanization are seen as interdependent processes of modern economic development. However, the exact nature of their causal relationship is still open to considerable debate.
Sukkoo Kim
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ABSTRACT This study examines the strategic efficacy of corporate low‐carbon energy transition, such as through nuclear energy adoption, as a response to decarbonization pressures. Analyzing an international sample of energy firms, we demonstrate that the relationship between this form of transition and emission reductions is not technologically ...
Bilal Ahmed Abbasi +4 more
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Oxygenated intermediates drive stepwise deep cracking of polycyclic aromatics over steam-regenerated zeolite catalysts. [PDF]
Zhang Y +6 more
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Have Prices of Internationally Traded Steam Coal been Marginal Cost Based? [PDF]
During 2007 and 2008 steam coal prices soared to unprecedented levels. Since then much has been speculated about the drivers of these price peaks. This paper is concerned with the costs of steam coal allocation in the seaborne market and their influence ...
Trueby, Johannes, Paulus, Moritz
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Climate Stress Testing on European SME Securitised Loans Under Climate Mitigation Scenarios
ABSTRACT Assessing the future impact of climate risks on the probability of default (PD) of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is challenging due to limited disclosure, policy uncertainty and exposure to physical risks. This paper addresses this gap by integrating macroeconomic variables from the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS ...
Luca Zanin, Raffaella Calabrese
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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li +3 more
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Synthesis and Migration-Plugging Performance of a Novel High-Temperature Resistant Epoxy-Based Profile Control Agent for Heavy Oil Steam Flooding. [PDF]
Liu J +7 more
europepmc +1 more source
The Dark Side of AI Readiness? Institutional Logics, Signalling and Carbon Transition Risk
ABSTRACT The influence of institutional environments on corporate sustainability is well established, yet how digital readiness restructures institutional logics and signalling mechanisms through which firms manage carbon transition risk (CTR) remains undertheorised.
Emilia Vann Yaroson +5 more
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