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The double-edged sword of CEO activism
Larcker, David F.; Miles, Stephen A.; Tayan, Brian; … - 2018
CEO activism — the practice of CEOs taking public positions on environmental, social, and political issues not directly related to their business — has become a hotly debated topic in corporate governance. To better understand the implications of CEO activism, we examine its prevalence, the...
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For a political sociology of water resources management
Mollinga, Peter P. - 2008
"political sociology of water resources management". The framing draws theoretical insights from sociology, development studies …, 1984; Archer, 1995) and the notion of public sociology (Burawoy, 2005a); development studies' understanding of the … studies in this particular way comes from. The section situates the field in relation to development sociology as the …
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The cost of being under the weather : droughts, floods, and health care costs in Sri Lanka
De Alwis, Diana; Noy, Ilan - 2017
We measure to cost of extreme weather events (droughts and floods) on health care in Sri Lanka. We find that frequently occurring local floods and droughts impose a significant risk to health when individuals are exposed directly to these hazards, and when their communities are exposed, even if...
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The cost of being under the weather : droughts, floods, and health care costs in Sri Lanka
De Alwis, Diana; Noy, Ilan - 2017
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Updating the balanced scorecard for triple bottom line strategies
Kaplan, Robert S.; McMillan, David - 2020
Many companies are now attempting to achieve triple bottom line performance on financial, environmental and societal metrics. Successful strategies for such performance, however, generally require new relationships among multiple players in multiple sectors across a company's supply chain for...
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Companies' responses to social activism : a resource reconfiguration perspective
Bird, Yanhua; Short, Jodi L.; Toffel, Michael W. - 2021
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Studying the U.S.-based portfolio companies of U.S. impact investors
Burton, M. Diane; Chadha, Gurveen; Cole, Shawn; Dev, … - 2021
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Intelligent design of inclusive growth strategies
Kaplan, Robert S.; Serafeim, George; Tugendhat, Eduardo - 2019
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Food bowl or folly? : the economics of irrigating Northern Australia
Dent, Jared; Ward, Michael B. - 2015
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Damming trans-boundary rivers : a welfare analysis of conflict and cooperation
Zeng, Yuyu; Houba, Harold; Dinar, Ariel; Marence, Miroslav - 2016
Dams are essential for water storage and hydropower generation, but change river flow patterns and endanger local … Cambodia, and Laos refrains from building some planned dams. Our results also hint that the 1995 Mekong agreement among …
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