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European Law OpenConsumers have in law been defined as the weaker parties in a transaction. Contract laws have integrated consumer protection with a view to balancing the interests of the parties, ensuring equal bargaining power and to some extent substantive fairness in
Vanessa Mak
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Infringement of the Prohibition of Unfair Commercial Practices and Tort Law
, 2011 The Private Law consequences of the infringment of the prohibition of unfair commercial practices - Tort Law and the prohibition of unfair commercial practices after the implementation of Directive 2005/29/EC: the different solutions adopted by the ...
Giovanni De Cristofaro +1 more
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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 +3 more
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International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 2018 Directive 2005/29/EC aimed at approximating the laws of the Member States on unfair commercial practices, including unfair advertising, which directly harm consumers’ economic interests.
Ilie-Catalin Ungureanu
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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
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Is the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive Fit to Effectively Tackle Abusive Debt Collection?
, 2020 The paper evaluates the adequacy of the existing EU legal framework – the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive - and the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU’s in tackling abusive non-judicial debt collection practices. For this purpose, it uses a
Stanescu, Catalin Gabriel
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Labelling deepfakes in terms of EU law: The AI Act and beyond
Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i SocjologicznyGenerative 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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ESG Controversies in Global Firms: A Black Mark?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite increasing attention paid by companies to sustainability, there is still evidence of environmental, social and governance (commonly referred to as ESG) scandals. As research on this topic is scant, this paper aims to analyse the impact of ESG controversies on firms' sustainability practices, that is, ESG policies, as well as ...
Beatrice Bais, Guido Orzes, Marco Sartor
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Dark Patterns and Addictive Designs
Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital SocietyThe 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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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 +3 more
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