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Factors of sustainable competitiveness at company level : a comparison of four global economic sectors
Șerban, Radu-Alexandru; Mihaiu Cindea, Diana Marieta; … - In: Journal of business economics and management 24 (2023) 3, pp. 449-470
Built on the premise that a company's competitiveness is given by its robust financial performance and the strength of its position on the market, but only under conditions of sustainability, this study aims to investigate the key factors of company competitiveness while considering...
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Shared value creation and sustainable development : developing a causal model by analyzing energy cooperatives in different institutional contexts
Gerrits, Ireen; Pennink, Bartjan - In: Central European review of economics and management : CEREM 6 (2022) 2, pp. 37-70
Aim: A theoretical understanding of the process, causal linkages, and dynamics of creating shared value (CSV) is largely missing in the field of shared value creation and sustainable development. Hence, this research is explorative by nature and aims to contribute to theory building in this...
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M&A activity as a driver for better ESG performance
Barros, Victor; Matos, Pedro Verga; Sarmento, Joaquim … - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 175 (2022), pp. 1-9
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Tracing environmental sustainability footprints in cross-border M&A activity
Ahmad, Muhammad Farooq; Aziz, Saqib; Michiels, Yannick; … - In: European financial management : the journal of the … 30 (2024) 3, pp. 1165-1195
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Thoughts on how trade, and WTO rules, can contribute to the post-2015 development agenda
Roberts, Michael - 2014 - Manuscript date: 13 June 2014
date. Indeed, sustainable development is recognized as an objective in the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade …
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A more sustainable energy strategy for India
Ahluwalia, Montek S.; Gupta, Himanshu; Stern, Nicholas H. - 2016
The COP-21 meeting in Paris produced an important result. For the first time all countries developed and developing agreed to take some mitigation action. However even if all countries deliver on what they have promised by 2030 and progress thereafter continues only at the same rate global...
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Climate Change, Food Security, and Agrobiodiversity : Toward a Just, Resilient, and Sustainable Food System
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2014
resulted in an unprecedented erosion of agrobiodiversity that renders the world's food supply vulnerable to catastrophic crop …, reducing the productivity of the world's fisheries, and placing pressure on scarce water resources. Furthermore, the climate … Agriculture Organization reports that the number of chronically undernourished people in the world reached a peak of 1.02 billion …
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Sustainable Standard-Setting, Climate Change and the TBT Agreement
Delimatsis, Panos - 2016
The increased importance of environmental protection led to the introduction of sustainability-related criteria in standard-setting practices. A discomfort with the functioning, working methods and certain rigidities of the global standardizing bodies such as the ISO led to a mushrooming of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000302
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Mineral Export Restraints and Sustainable Development
Gu, Bin - 2017
broader backdrop of international economic transition in a mineral-hungry world. Such issues of mineral export restraints are …China's actions in limiting the export of rare earths have drawn the world's attention. The United States, Japan and … deeply rooted in the traditional international trade structure, and in turn serve as a historic move to break it. The WTO …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957158
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A Modular Governance Architecture In-the-Making : How Transnational Standard-Setters Govern Sustainability Transitions
Manning, Stephan - 2017
Sustainability transitions have been studied as complex multi-level processes, but we still know relatively little about how they can be effectively governed, especially in transnational domains. Governance of transitions is often constrained by the equivocality of sustainability goals, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970580