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Free Trade Zones and Corporate ESG: Evidence From a Quasi‐Natural Experiment in China
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how China's Pilot Free Trade Zones (FTZs) influence corporate ESG performance. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences model on Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2024, we combine coarsened exact matching (CEM) and geography‐based instrumental variables to ensure robust identification.
Wen Li, Yinghan Zhao, Brian Lucey
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Legal Knowledge and Economic Development: The Case of Land Rights in Uganda [PDF]
Mixed evidence on the impact of formal title in much of Africa is often used to question the relevance of dealing with land policy issues in this continent.
Yamano, Takashi +2 more
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Women's land rights in the transition to individualized ownership [PDF]
This study explores the impact of changes in land tenure institutions on women's land rights and the efficiency of tree resource management in Western Ghana.
Payongayong, Ellen +3 more
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Do Sustainability Committees Mitigate or Exacerbate ESG Decoupling?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of sustainability committees (SCs) on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) decoupling in US publicly listed firms. In particular, it examines their influence on overall and dimension‐specific (E, S, G) ESG decoupling and distinguishes their effects on internal versus external ESG actions.
Weite Qiu +4 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Small cultural museums play an important role in sustaining local heritage, community identity and inclusive cultural participation, yet they face persistent financial and organisational constraints. This study examines how financial sustainability is achieved and maintained in three small cultural museums through a qualitative‐led mixed ...
Joseph Gerald Bourke +3 more
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Customary Land Acquisition and Tenure Security in Refugee-Host Communities:
African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial SciencesContext and background: Countries addressing the global refugee crisis are increasingly shifting from reliance on refugee camps or forced repatriation toward promoting local integration.
sophia nagujja +3 more
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Rewards for Ecosystem Services and Collective Land Tenure: Lessons from Ecuador and Indonesia
, 2008 10 p.In an attempt to help protect the environment and spur economic development, programs that provide rewards in exchange for ecosystem services offer theoretical advantages over past mechanisms but also pose challenges, including determining who ...
Wendland, Kelly
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Enabling sustainable property practices by ensuring security of tenure [PDF]
, 2011 Sustainable property practices will be essential for Australia’s future. The various levels of government offer incentives aimed at encouraging residents to participate in sustainable practices.
Cradduck, L +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the effect of chief executive officers' (CEOs') career horizons on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and investigate how hard cues influence this performance effect. Our study offers a new perspective of CEO career horizon as a mechanism that enables firms to improve their ESG performance when occupying a ...
Sofia Angelidou +2 more
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Lever L’insécurité Foncière: Une Des Premières Clefs Du Développement?
African Studies Quarterly, 1999 This combination of three short papers discusses afforestation, land tenure, and environmnetal legislation in Madagascar. The second piece on tenure insecurity argues that ultimately the state has been poor at formal land tenure immatriculation ...
Alain Bertrand
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