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Public Goods, Hysteresis, and Underinvestment in Food Safety
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2009 Despite the economic damage inflicted by a foodborne disease outbreak, firms at all points in the supply chain appear to be reluctant to invest in the necessary food safety technologies and practices.
Timothy J. Richards +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.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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Asset Redeployability and Biodiversity Risk
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine how asset redeployability influences a firm's exposure to biodiversity risk. Our empirical analysis provides robust evidence that firms possessing greater levels of redeployable assets exhibit significantly lower biodiversity risk.
Mostafa Monzur Hasan +2 more
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Costly Signals and Cheap Talk: Measuring the Decoupling of ESG Routinisation and Greenwashing Risk
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Greenwashing is a systemic challenge to sustainable finance, yet prevailing ESG metrics still tend to equate more disclosure with more sustainability. We develop a dual‐index framework to compare firms' ESG ‘talk’ and ‘walk’ using hard data. An ESG Routinisation Index approximates the costly integration of sustainability into emissions, safety
Giacomo Zatini +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rare earth elements (REEs) are critical inputs for low‐carbon technologies, yet their supply chains remain highly concentrated and vulnerable. Although diversification is widely promoted as a strategy to enhance supply chain resilience, its feasibility in strategic material systems remains limited.
Klavdij Logožar
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is extensive literature on the relationship between corporate governance (CG) and firms' environmental performance (EP). However, the empirical findings remain somewhat equivocal. A variety of theoretical approaches have been utilised to provide a suitable basis for explaining the causal relationship, including legitimacy theory ...
Lukas Horner, Michael Grüning
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New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.ABSTRACT California's Assembly Bill 91 (AB‐91), passed in 2023 and effective Fall 2024, authorizes nine community colleges in the San Diego and Imperial Counties region to waive nonresident tuition for low‐income Mexican national students residing within forty‐five miles of the U.S.‐Mexico border.
Jada S. Sims, Antonio Estrella Vega
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Fungal Antimicrobial Resistance: Mechanisms, Drivers, and Global Clinical Burden
ChemFoodChem, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fungal antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing concern for world health caused by an increase in multidrug‐resistant infections, an increase in environmental reservoirs, and the ineffectiveness of current antifungal treatments. Fungal infections continue to be largely excluded from AMR initiatives while causing over 1.6 million deaths ...
Bikash Baral
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CEO Overconfidence, Industry Competition, and ESG Performance
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the interplay among CEO overconfidence, industry competition, and firms' ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) performance. With the growing importance of ESG management, firms are investing more in ESG initiatives as a strategic approach to mitigating downside risk. However, overconfident CEOs, characterized by their
Taehyung Kim, Jaeseog Na
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Lucratividade e qualidade na distribuição de energia elétrica
Profitability and quality in electricity distribution [PDF]
Nova Economia, 2002 Privatization of electricity distribution in Brasil had, as one of its stated purposes, generation of sufficient revenue to guarantee service quality and full market coverage.
André Garcez Ghirardi +2 more
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