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Does Stakeholder Pressure Promote Green Innovations and Performance of Agribusiness Companies?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The sustainability of agribusiness companies is guided by multiple, sometimes paradoxical, interests. Green innovation is strategic for sustainable development; however, literature shows inconsistencies regarding its impact on environmental and economic‐financial performance.
Vanderlei dos Santos, Ilse Maria Beuren, Adrian Odelli, Rodrigo Rengel, Daniele Cristina Bernd   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influencing decision makers - model of interference of the tobacco industry in Brazil

, 2018
Background To monitor the strategies of the tobacco industry against public tobacco control policies in Brazil. Methods Documentary research with survey of documents available at the Observatory on Tobacco Industry Strategies, in Brazil, of the ...
Silvana Turci, Danielle Silva, Alex Medeiros, Daniel Carvalho   +3 more
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Beyond Structural Interventions: The Human Architecture Shaping ESG Integration in Corporate Systems

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the promotion of ESG in corporate discourse, substantive integration of ESG principles into business practices remains challenging. This study applies and extends Meadows' leverage framework to examine ESG integration in UAE‐listed firms.
M. Schulte, Dimitris Christopoulos
wiley   +1 more source

Lifecycle Prediction for Tobacco Products Using IGWO-Optimized CNN-GRU Network

Journal of Computing and Information Technology
Accurate prediction of product lifecycle stages is crucial for enhancing inventory turnover and strategic planning in the tobacco industry. This paper proposes an intelligent prediction model that integrates Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Gated ...
YiShuang Qin, JianShuang Jia, Dong Liang, Che Yu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Yuming Xuan, Maqsood Ahmad, Sunny Sun, Yang Jinghan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the aspartic protease gene family in Nicotiana benthamiana and its application in recombinant protein expression

Frontiers in Plant Science
IntroductionAspartic proteases (APs) play crucial roles in plant growth, stress responses, and protein metabolism. However, endogenous APs in Nicotiana benthamiana, a key plant molecular farming platform, pose a significant challenge by degrading ...
Yu’e Li, Tao Liu, Lianghua Zhu, Rongrong Wu, Youjie Liu, Huijuan Zhou, Wei Guo, Shiqiang Zhang, Sayed Abdul Akher, Hongwei Piao, Jianqi Zhang, Kexin Liang, Zhenqi Zhao, Yongfeng Guo, Yongfeng Guo, Zhe Jin, Zenglin Zhang, Zenglin Zhang   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ending corporate giving to halt tobacco industry interference in the ASEAN region

, 2018
Background and challenges to implementation As the ASEAN region becomes more aware of the deadly effects of tobacco and governments step-up regulation of the industry, tobacco companies are resorting to more below‐the‐line tactics to promote their ...
Worrawan Jirathanapiwat
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From Circular Economy Disclosure to Circular Transformation: A Case Study From Food‐Producing Companies

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Changing the use of resources and the treatment of waste is an important driver towards sustainable development. While this includes transformation of production processes, it also requires the transition of complete business models towards more circularity.
Patricia Ruffing‐Straube, Ute Merbecks, Inge Wulf   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

CADFFNet: a dual-branch neural network for non-destructive detection of cigar leaf moisture content during air-curing stage

Frontiers in Plant Science
IntroductionThe cigar leaves moisture content (CLMC) is a critical parameter for controlling curing barn conditions. Along with the continuous advancement of deep learning (DL) technologies, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have provided a way of ...
Zhuoran Xing, Yaqi Shi, Yihao Pan, Kai Zhang, Zhenhua Wang, Bingyang Liu, Xiangdong Shi, Songshuang Ding   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

TOBACCO AND THE ECONOMY: FARMS, JOBS, AND COMMUNITIES

Public health policies intended to reduce the incidence of smoking-related disease adversely affect thousands of tobacco farmers, manufacturers, and other businesses that produce, distribute, and sell tobacco products.
Foreman, Linda F., Capehart, Thomas C., Jr., Gale, H. Frederick, Jr.   +2 more
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