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The rise of sustainable finance, ESG investment, and sustainability reporting, has gradually led to a growing … disconnect among many financial-sector and corporate stakeholders, which can be observed between their positive sustainability … performance claims and the organizational resources and capacities dedicated to assuring proper ESG integration and sustainability …
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Green product innovations offer a large number of compelling benefits to different stakeholders throughout their life cycle (raw material extraction, production, use and maintenance, end of life). However, in inert sectors such as the construction industry, the development of green products is...
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The aim of this study is to establish a classification for environmental indicators that can be used to communicate companies' environmental performance in Emas Environmental Statements and to assess their actual use in certified Environmental Statements. Starting from the ISO14031 draft...
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I examine corporate green bonds, whose proceeds finance climate-friendly projects. These bonds have become more prevalent over time, especially in industries where the environment is financially material to firm operations. I document that investors respond positively to the issuance...
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Urbanization is the process of population growth residing in urban areas. In the context of Nepal, Kathmandu Valley is the largest urban centre of the country with 1.7 million populations with a decadal population growth rate of 60.93%. This research was conducted to identify the driving factors...
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European Union (EU) institutions and agencies are increasingly raising awareness on the circular economy agenda. They are encouraging marketplace stakeholders to engage in sustainable production and consumption behaviors by reducing, reusing, restoring, refurbishing and recycling resources in...
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This paper analyzes the impact of managerial attributes such as overconfidence on firms' environmental performance. We hypothesize that overconfident CEOs tend to underestimate firms' environmental risk leading to a low level of ex-ante environmental safeguards and hence, lower environmental...
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This chapter examines the linkages between the positive organizational scholarship (POS) and the sustainability … contributions. POS can help sustainability make a shift from addressing “deficit gaps” to instead addressing “abundance gaps ….” Sustainability can help expand the scope of the POS research domain from explaining how people and organizations can flourish, to …
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Paper covers personal experiences relating to the relevant science, publications, negotiations, policies, measures, business responses, and sleight-of-hand which has gone around the author over many years
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Based on the existing research on environmental regulation (ER) and enterprise innovation, this paper separates green innovation ability from general technological innovation and divides it, from the perspective of motivation, into substantive green innovation (SUBGI) and symbolic green...
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