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Vietnam's pulp and paper industry has contributed significantly to socio-economic growth but is also one of the industries with a very high risk of environmental pollution. Stems from the goal of economic growth coupled with environmental protection operations in Vietnam, this study examines the...
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[Vorwort] Das 1. Symposium für Ökonomie im Gartenbau fand am 27. November 2013 in der Paulinerkirche in Göttingen statt. Es wurde als Kooperation der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, des Thünen- Instituts für Betriebswirtschaft und des Agrarkompetenznetzes WeGa durchgeführt. Die...
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The corporate responsibility report demonstrates an organisation’s commitment to sustainability. Currently, not much is known about the quality of the assurance statements of the corporate responsibility reports of banks in Australia. This research study fills the gap in the literature by...
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Corporate social responsibility and sustainability are key issues in the current business environment. Accountants play a crucial role in organizations in areas closely related to corporate social responsibility such as reporting, transparency, ethics, legal compliance, communication with...
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Purpose: This paper sets out to examine how CEOs' talk of sustainability has developed in a period of increased expectations from society for companies to step up their transformation towards more sustainable businesses and better account for their progress and performance within the...
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We examine the effect of mandated measurement and peer disclosure of new information on the persistence of performance … following regulation requiring standardized measurement and peer disclosure of absolute and relative patient satisfaction … disclosure introduce positive and significant mean shifts in performance with larger improvements for poorly performing hospitals …
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The purpose of this article is to explore the role of instruments in the transformation of institutional logics and their associated practices at the micro level. Based on an ethnographic study, this article compares two working groups — one responsible for equity and the other for...
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Das 1. Symposium für Ökonomie im Gartenbau fand am 27. November 2013 in der Paulinerkirche in Göttingen statt. Es wurde als Kooperation der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, des Thünen- Instituts für Betriebswirtschaft und des Agrarkompetenznetzes WeGa durchgeführt. Die Veranstaltung...
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While a number of studies document that organizations go through numerous stages as they increase their commitment to sustainability over time, we know little about the role of the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) in this process. Using survey and interview data we analyze how a CSO’s...
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This study was developed based on the theory of cultural relevance of accounting proposed by Baydoun and Willet [4] from the contributions originally released by Gray [16], which highlights the link between the accounting values and the practices that are materialized in the form, content and...
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