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The social responsibility of businesses has developed into a highly debated issue in recent years.Especially in agribusiness, recent scandals as well as information asymmetries concerning food production have ledto high external pressure on firms from the wider public. Being confronted with a...
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examines consumer perceptions of CSR from a more holistic perspective of sustainability, utilizing the recently developed …
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As financial institutions approach sustainability in new ways, this report, prepared as a master'sproject for the …
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The author analyses the importance of corporate sustainability and its communication to the financial community. She … corporate sustainability, whenever ecologically or socially relevant corporate behaviour might have an economic impact. …
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practice it is possible to achieve significant levels of decoupling, and thus environmental sustainability, whilst maintaining … sustainability, economic growth and job creation. This result has important implications for other important sustainability debates … social sustainability goals – reducing poverty, inequality and corruption whilst improving access to education and health …
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the latest considerations to improve a business'environmental sustainability whilst reducing the cost of IT operations. A …
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This report will outline a new framework for improved yields and increased sustainability in Sub-Saharan African …
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This thesis presents two essays in Corporate Finance. In the first essay, I use the August 2007 crisis episode to gauge the effect of financial contracting on real firm behavior. I identify heterogeneity in financial contracting at the onset of the crisis by exploiting ex-ante variation in...
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sustainability and the appropriate strategies required to improve business sustainability. In addition, there are international calls … for educators to address sustainability in their programs. The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which … business sustainability is being incorporated into undergraduate business and management courses in Australian universities …
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No single set of sampling decisions is optimal for all monitoring programs. Cost-effective decisions will have to be made in an adaptive framework, constantly changing yet having a basic structure. The major objectives of this paper are to develop and illustrate such a model structure for...
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