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sustainability-related norms, thus acquiring and upholding a societal license to operate. ESG performance and disclosure help …
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The main purpose of this paper is to better understand how sustainability rating agencies, through discourse, promote … ideology of numbers is reflected on websites and public documents published by a range of sustainability rating agencies. Our …
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This study is grounded in the debate surrounding the perceived value of environmental social responsibility (ESR). Applying the Managerial Theory of the Firm, in-depth interviews were conducted to identify managerial motives, perceptions, and perceived value of ESR. Using sport and public...
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The globally generated concepts of environment and sustainability are fast gaining currency in international business … discourse. Sustainability concerns are concurrently becoming significant to business planning around corporate social … key factor in determining company approaches to sustainability. But what do corporate managers understand by …
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While the importance of employee initiatives for improving the environmental practices and performance of organizations has been clearly established in the literature, the precise nature of these initiatives has rarely been examined (particularly the issue of their discretionary or mandatory...
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future sustainability of the business ethics discipline. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 …
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organizational accountability for sustainability. Using a panel of Fortune Global 250 firms over a period of 10 years, we document … the diffusion patterns of third-party assurance of sustainability reports. We specifically investigate how evolving … sustainability assurance statements. The results illustrate great variability in the adoption of assurance practices in the formative …
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The Pão de Açúcar Group was a pioneer in food retailing in Brazil and is now one of the largest Brazilian retailers. Working in a pulverized market characterized by small players, the Group produces US$ 20.4 billion in gross sales. It has become the largest employer in the country with...
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This paper addresses the question, how does wisdom contribute to management in circumstances of extreme unpredictability? We first discuss three key factors that fundamentally affect the conduct of business—human, knowledge, and the environment—as well as their characteristics and...
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