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Banchlay Addis,1 Workye Akele,2 Amare Minyihun1 1Department of Health Systems and Policy, Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia; 2Malaria Prevention & Control Program Officer, Bugina ...
Addis B, Akele W, Minyihun A
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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
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Examining Factors Affecting the Sub-vector Water Efficiency in Wheat Production: A Radial Basis Function Artificial Neural Network and the Tobit Model [PDF]
In the present study, by using information of 150 wheat beneficiaries in Zarghan, Fars region collected in the 2010-2011 crop year, the most important factors affecting the sub-vector water efficiency in wheat production were analyzed.
Seyed Abolghasem Mortazavi +2 more
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Symbolic Versus Substantive ESG Practices: A Systematic Review and Integrative Framework
ABSTRACT ESG reporting is widespread, but symbolic commitments do not always reflect substantive practices. This study conducts a systematic literature review of 62 empirical articles published between 2021 and 2025 to synthesize the main determinants and consequences of this disclosure–performance misalignment in ESG reporting (commonly referred to as
Cristina Alexandrina Ştefănescu +1 more
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Model‐based estimator of total expenditure on environmental protection
Expenditure of enterprises on environmental protection has highly positive or zero values. Thus, distribution of such a variable is skewed, and its population variance is high. As a consequence the design‐based estimator of a total expenditure has a high
Danute Krapavickaite
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ABSTRACT This study examines how engineering trained chief executive officers (CEOs) determine firms' sustainability performance and greenwashing behavior in Australian listed firms from 2016 to 2024. Drawing on Upper Echelons theory and Imprint theory, we argue that engineering cognition influences environmental strategy by providing conservative ...
Sulochana Dissanayake +1 more
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Testing identifying assumptions in Tobit models
We develop sharp, testable implications for the identifying assumptions of Tobit and IV-Tobit models: linear index, (joint) normality of errors, treatment (instrument) exogeneity, and relevance. The new sharp testable equalities can detect all possible observable violations of the identifying conditions.
Santiago Acerenza +2 more
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CEO Characteristics and CSR Governance Quality: Evidence From Europe
ABSTRACT Leveraging a sample of European listed firms, we investigate whether CEO duality, CEO tenure, and CEO membership in the CSR board committee are associated with the quality of corporate social responsibility (CSR) governance. Our findings indicate that CEO duality is negatively associated with CSR governance quality, whereas CEO membership on ...
Gianluca Ginesti +3 more
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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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Determinants of bank technical efficiency: Evidence from commercial banks in Ethiopia
The main objective of this study is to examine the determinants of the technical efficiency of commercial banks in Ethiopia over the period from 2011 to 2014. For this purpose, the study used secondary data from the annual reports of the commercial banks
Tadesse Zenebe Lema
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