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Capital Age and Labor Investment Efficiency
American Business Review, 2023 This study examines how capital age affects the efficiency of corporate labor investments. Using a sample of 1,588 US firms from 1991 to 2016, we find that the efficiency of labor investments increases as technology ages.
Amanjot Singh
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between waste management outcomes and corporate investment efficiency, as well as the moderating role of CSR committees, using a panel of 267 non‐financial French listed firms over the period 2011–2022.
Bilel Bzeouich +2 more
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Are we underinvesting in education?
EFORT Open Reviews, 2023 Surgical education used to be simple. ‘See one, do one, teach one’ was Halsted’s (1852–1922) philosophy and for the better parts of the 19th and 20th centuries that was to be the way forward (1). Back in the day, students of surgery would actually pay the master for the educational expertise he dispensed.
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Does Climate Risk Affect Employment Decisions? International Evidence
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the effect of climate risk on corporate employment decisions. Using a large sample from 41 countries, we find a positive association between climate risk and underinvestment in labor, notably manifesting as excessive employee layoffs.
Claude Francoeur +3 more
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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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Underinvestment, capital structure and strategic debt restructuring [PDF]
Journal of Corporate Finance, 2003 This paper shows that shareholders' option to renegotiate debt in a period of financial distress exacerbates Myers' (1977) underinvestment problem at the time of the firm's expansion. This result is a consequence of a higher wealth transfer from shareholders to creditors occurring upon investment in the presence of the option to renegotiate.
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Investment without regulatory commitment : the case of elastic demand [PDF]
, 1990 Includes bibliographical references (p. 9)
Urbiztondo, Santiago
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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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COVID-19: The World On Pause. How We Face This New Pandemic?
Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana, 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic, popularly known as coronavirus, was announced in an article by the American Society of Microbiology that already in 2007 warned about the dangers of the consumption of exotic animals in different Chinese communities. The background
Gabriel Lapman
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