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Do High Temperatures Affect Firm Demography? Evidence From Italy
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study analyses the impact of high temperatures and heat stress on Italian firm demography during 2009–2022. Combining provincial‐firm‐level data with a high‐resolution multidecadal meteorological dataset, we investigate whether high temperatures—absolute and anomalous—affect firm entry and exit rates.
Concetta Carnevale +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Transformative change is required to address persistent and systemic drivers of biodiversity loss. There is an urgent need for innovative solutions that tackle root causes in place‐specific contexts. Evidence indicates that small, innovative, purpose‐driven businesses can serve as vehicles for developing place‐based solutions.
Shova Thapa Karki, Bradley D. Parrish
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Hybridised materialisms: The ‘twists and turns’ of materialities in feminist theory
, 2018 This article examines the conceptualisation of materialities in feminist theory through two paradigmatic examples: (French) materialist feminism and new materialisms.
Zouggari, Najate
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Certified companies translate voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) into local practice, yet little is known about how company‐level implementation of VSS relates to farmer compliance. This paper examines Rainforest Alliance (RA) implementation by three certified companies in the Indonesian cocoa sector. Drawing on compliance and regulatory
Charline Depoorter +4 more
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Deforestation‐Free Cocoa: Implications for Organizational Adaptation and Compliance Costs
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Mandatory due diligence is an emerging policy instrument for addressing global environmental challenges, yet how such regulations reshape firm‐level organizational structures and generate compliance costs remains poorly understood. Drawing on organizational theory, this study examines how companies in the German cocoa and chocolate sector ...
Daniel Braun +2 more
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From Need to Deed: A Concrete Construal Account of Need‐Based Object Valuation
Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Need‐based object valuation is when consumers place greater valuations on objects that fulfill their needs. Despite its pervasiveness as a consumer behavior phenomenon, the psychological drivers behind it are not fully understood. This research examines concrete construal level as one mechanism of need‐based object valuation.
Anthony Salerno +3 more
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Call for proposals for a special issue: New materialisms and environmental education [PDF]
, 2017 The purpose of this special issue is to: acknowledge the emergence of new materialisms in environmental education research and articulate the potential significance of new materialisms for debates in environmental education research, policy, and ...
Mcphie, Jamie, Clarke, David
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What\u27s Tropical About Nick Joaquin\u27s Tropical Gothic?: Heat and Corporeality in The Summer Solstice and The Dying Wanton [PDF]
Since their first publication in magazines like Philippines Graphic and the Philippine Free Press, and their subsequent re-publication under the collection title Tropical Gothic, Nick Joaquin’s classic short stories from the 1940s have been mainly ...
Ang, Ann
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Cereal Chemistry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Whole‐grain (brown) rice has superior nutritional quality but is prone to rancidity, primarily caused by endogenous lipases and oxidases. This study evaluated mild hydrothermal stabilization (MHS), comprising grain surface wetting, followed by short‐duration atmospheric‐pressure steaming, applied to two West African ...
Sali A. Ndindeng +5 more
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Cereal Chemistry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Copra meal is a byproduct of the coconut oil extraction process and provides an inexpensive source of energy for livestock diets. Single‐screw extrusion was conducted to investigate the effects of varying proportions of copra meal and distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and the corresponding processing ...
Jan Kathleen M. Punzalan +1 more
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