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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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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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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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Sharing models to interpret data

Schwartzstein, Joshua; Sunderam, Adi - 2024

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Dams

Duflo, Esther; Pande, Rohini - 2005

The construction of large dams is one of the most costly and controversial forms of public infrastructure investment in … large dams in India. To account for endogenous placement of dams we use GIS data and the fact that river gradient affects a … district's suitability for dams to provide instrumental variable estimates of their impact. We find that, in a district where a …

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