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Corporate Social Responsibility in Agribusiness: Empirical Findings from Germany
Heyder, Matthias; Theuvsen, Ludwig - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445971
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Consumer Perceptions of Sustainability in the Lodging Industry: Examination of Sustainable Tourism Criteria
Levy, Stuart E; Duverger, Philippe - 2010
examines consumer perceptions of CSR from a more holistic perspective of sustainability, utilizing the recently developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467745
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Sustainability at Banorte: A Comprehensive CSR Strategy
Taub, Jeremy Harrison; Tam, Tina; Frey, Laura Dunham; … - 2011
As financial institutions approach sustainability in new ways, this report, prepared as a master'sproject for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477254
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Sustainability communications
Fiedler, Katja - 2007
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451175
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Advancing and Resolving the Great Sustainability Debates and Discourses
Smith, Michael Harrison - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451445
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GITAM: a model for the acceptantce of green IT
MOLLA, A; Corbitt, B; Deng, H - 2008
the latest considerations to improve a business'environmental sustainability whilst reducing the cost of IT operations. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481601
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A new framework for African smallholder agriculture : harnessing innovation and the private sector to drive sustainable development
Wilson, Robert Hines (contributor) - 2010
This report will outline a new framework for improved yields and increased sustainability in Sub-Saharan African …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429281
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Value Chains and Chains of Values: Tracing Tanzanian Tea
Loconto, A. - 2010
2008 and 2010, eighty in-depth interviews were conducted with stakeholders who are certified against sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442734
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Combining cluster and value chain approaches to analyze the competitiveness of fresh vegetables producers: case studies in Germany, Italy and Spain
Riedel, Bettina; Bokelmann, Wolfgang; Canavari, Maurizio - 2009
European producers of fresh vegetables are under pressure to improve their performance in order toincrease competitiveness. Innovative products and processes and competitive advantage can be gained by the creationand use of unique resources as an outcome of cooperation between producers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445968
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SUBCONTRACTORS IN GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS: A TYPOLOGICAL THEORY AND EMPLOYMENT SYSTEMS FRAMEWORK
Ranganathan, Aruna - 2008
In this thesis, I argue that there are different types of first-tier subcontractors and that distinct employment systems will be seen at each of these subcontractor types. I identify four subcontractor ideal types in the form of a typology- Economic, Agile, Turn-key and Client-Specific...
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