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Generative AI, ESG Sensemaking, and Environmental Performance: an OIPT Perspective
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite growing enthusiasm for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in sustainability management, it remains unclear how such technologies translate vast ESG information into meaningful environmental outcomes. This study addresses this gap by investigating how ESG sensemaking capability mediates the relationship between GenAI integration
Surajit Bag +3 more
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The Financing of Research and Development [PDF]
Evidence on the "funding gap" for R&D is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for underinvestment in R&D that persist even in the absence of externality-induced underinvestment.
Bronwyn H. Hall
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ESG Performance, Debt Financing, and R&D Output: Evidence From the Healthcare Sector
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid growing calls for sustainability in the healthcare sector, this study examines how and under what conditions environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance influences research and development (R&D) output. Although existing studies suggest that ESG performance enhances R&D output, the financial mechanisms that enable or constrain
Sarmad Ali +2 more
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Venture Capital and Dividend Policy
International Journal of Financial StudiesIn this paper, we empirically examine the impact of venture capital investment on the dividend policy of the invested companies using a sample of list companies from China’s ChiNext market during the period 2014 to 2019.
Yi Tan, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoyu Fu
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Valuing entrepreneurial investments: the venture capitalists' approach. [PDF]
Valuing high-growth, high-uncertainty firms, characterised by a unique business concept, significant growth opportunities, and/or no real positive cash flows to show the profit potential of the venture, is a major challenge faced by most venture ...
Lefebvre, Christian, Thoen, Vincent
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As firms increasingly incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) concerns into their strategic agendas, stakeholder legitimacy—an audience‐conferred judgment of organizational appropriateness—has become pivotal. We theorize legitimacy as expanding a hybrid response portfolio in which firms may pursue substantive change (business ...
Min‐Jae Lee +3 more
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New Venture Opportunity Cost of Capital and Financial Contracting [PDF]
Investments in new ventures involve financial contracts between an entrepreneur and outside investors. Investors, such as venture capital firms, represent well-diversified investors.
Frank Kerins +2 more
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Managing Venture Capital Investments [PDF]
, 2005 The original venture capitalists were wealthy “angels,” often entrepreneurs themselves, who funded promising business ventures that came to their attention in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Smith, Roy C.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmentally oriented ventures pursue a dual mission: to create both environmental and financial value. This dual mission adds complexity and can influence ventures' funding prospects, as investors mostly pursue financial motivations.
David Flore +2 more
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Which criteria matter most in the evaluation of venture capital investments? [PDF]
This study identifies the importance assigned to the various criteria used by the Portuguese Venture Capitalists (VCs) to evaluate and select early stage venture capital projects.
Cesaltina Pires +2 more
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