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Understanding Plant Parasitism: Hydnora Africana and European Scientific Practice in the Early Nineteenth Century**

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
This article will analyze the uncertainties around collecting and classifying Hydnora africana in the first half of the nineteenth century. Emerging from the distinctive dryland ecologies of South Africa, Hydnora was interpreted as strange and cryptic by Europeans primarily because it is a root parasite—a complex floral trait that was little understood.
Katherine Arnold
wiley   +1 more source

Labelling deepfakes in terms of EU law: The AI Act and beyond

Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can create various types of content. Some of this content includes so-called deepfakes, which resemble actual content, such as the likeness of famous individuals, but are not genuine. The latest EU regulation –
Dominik Gabor
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Chain‐Level Business Model Patterns for the Green Logistics Transition

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability transitions in freight transport increasingly depend on coordinated changes across entire logistics networks, not just within individual firms. This study investigates how business‐model change unfolds across a multimodal European logistics chain engaged in reducing transport‐related emissions.
Marikka Heikkilä
wiley   +1 more source

Dark Patterns and Addictive Designs

Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society
The proliferation of digital platforms has given rise to manipulative design practices known as “dark patterns,” which exploit users’ vulnerabilities to influence behavior, leading them to make decisions against their own interests.
Xin Ye
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Unfair market practices and the Act on Combating Unfair Competition [PDF]

, 2016
Niniejszy artykuł ma na celu analizę relacji dyrektywy 2005/29/WE z 11 maja 2005 r. o nieuczciwych praktykach handlowych (dalej: dyrektywa 2005/29/WE) oraz ustawy z 23 sierpnia 2007 r. o przeciwdziałaniu nieuczciwym praktykom rynkowym (daleja: upnpr) z
Strzelecki, Michał
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The Perils of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Controversies: Implications for a Firm's Financial and Nonfinancial Performance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although ESG controversies are on the rise, research investigating them yields contradictory findings. The paper provides resolutions to the debate through investigating (a) how ESG controversies influence firms' short‐term and long‐term financial performance; (b) how firms navigate ESG controversies' effect; and (c) how ESG controversies ...
Amalesh Sharma, Sourav Bikash Borah, Anirban Adhikary, Sanjay Kumar Jena   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE PROTECTION OF THE CONSUMERS’ RIGHTS REGARDING ONLINE MISLEADING AND COMPARATIVE ADVERTISING IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION STRATEGY [PDF]

Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie, 2014
The development of the Internet as a new communication medium between companies and consumers has outlined in time a number of unique benefits for the marketing promotional strategy, but it also outlined several disadvantages often related to the ...
GHEORGHE ORZAN , OTILIA -ELENA PLATON, IRINA IOSUB , VALENTINA-DANIELA CONSTANTIN   +3 more
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Tensions of Sustainability Logics: Performance of a Company Utilizing a Sustainable Business Model

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, companies have used sustainable business models to gain a competitive advantage. However, there are tensions due to the inconsistency between social, environmental, and economic logic in sustainable business models, making it difficult for companies to change. To understand the existing tensions and interactions between logics,
Ann‐Kristin Thienemann
wiley   +1 more source

Experiencing Unfair Commercial Practices: An Introduction [PDF]

, 2013
__Abstract__ In this issue of Erasmus Law Review, the focus is on a particularly interesting piece of EU legislation, the 2005 Unfair Commercial Practices Directive. The Directive has been implemented in the EU Member States and some years have passed
Boom, W.H. (Willem) van
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Unfair Commercial Practices and Italian Private Law

, 2015
This contribution contains a deep and critical analysis of the impact of the introduction of the implementing provisions of directive 2005/29/EC on unfair commercial practices in business-to-consumer relations on italian private law, with specific regard
DE CRISTOFARO, Giovanni
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