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Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a … sustainability; and yet the lack of clear definitions has left a vacuum of corporate guidance. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR …) has become a synonym for corporate action towards sustainability, but companies continue to struggle to understand how to …
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Die Studie „Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement“ betrachtet den Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltaspekten und Unternehmenswert. Hierbei bezieht sie erstmals zwei unterschiedliche, sich ergänzende Bewertungsverfahren ein: Sie nimmt erstens das Konzept des Environmental Shareholder Value auf und...
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Australian, state and territory regimes came under review for the Commission’s inquiry into native vegetation and biodiversity regulations. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003. It found that the cost of farm regulations could be reduced if...
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particular in terms of scaling distribution preservation. Identified distributions of all simulated processes are compared with …
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sequence of random variables, i.e a stochastic process. Sharp scaling exponents or unifractal behavior of such processes has … been reported in several works. In this letter we investigate the question of scaling transformation of price processes by … physics. Using two sets of financial chronological time series, we show that the scaling transformation is a non-linear group …
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This paper shows the differences between how benefits are estimated and how they are distributed, calls attention to the policy variables that are crucial in explaining certain distributional outcomes, explores the importance of looking at the demand for characteristics when trying to benefit...
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In the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) applied to the free cash flow (FCF), we assume that the cost of debt is the market, unsubsidized rate. With debt at the market rate and perfect capital markets, debt only creates value in the presence of taxes through the tax shield. In some cases,...
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This paper reviews two common definitions of poverty targeted projects, discusses the limitations of poverty targeting classifications, calls for a poverty focused cost-benefit analysis that looks at the main policy constraints affecting the distribution of project benefits, and argues for...
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Past research on aid and growth is flawed because it typically examines the impact of aggregate aid on growth over a short period, usually four years, while significant portions of aid are unlikely to affect growth in such a brief time. We divide aid into three categories: (1) emergency and...
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This chapter uses key concepts in the knowledge management literature to analyse the procedures and practices used by a project management team to identify, create, store, disseminate, and apply knowledge management systems for successful project completion. This project allowed a long...
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