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To green or not to green : The influence of board characteristics on carbon emissions

Kreuzer, Christian; Priberny, Christopher - 2022

We analyze how board characteristics affect a company's carbon emissions besides further firm-related and cultural variables, using data on over 6,000 companies located in 46 countries for the period 2009-2019. We identify the boards that are more skilled or have a higher share of female members...

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The sustainability footprint of institutional investors

Gibson, Rajna; Krüger, Philipp - 2017 - This version: 17 February 2017

We propose a novel way of measuring the equity portfolio-level environmental and social characteristics of a 13F institution (the “sustainability footprint”) and examine the relation between sustainability footprints and risk-adjusted investment performance. The analysis shows that 13F...

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Manifestations of the European ecological footprint from the perspective of social responsibility codes

Ghiţă, Simona Ioana; Gogonea, Rodica Manuela; … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 21 (2019) 52, pp. 554-571

The process of converting the economy to more sustainable production forms is the essence of bio-economy, currently becoming more and more important in all the European countries. Sustainability is a complex concept that can be quantified through an entire system of indicators. A "marker" of...

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Title Sustainable Development in the World from the Aspect of Environmental Health and Human Development Index : Regional Variations and Patterns

Bucher, Slavomir - 2016

In this paper we consider the impact of Human Development Index and Environmental Health on sustainable development in 178 observed countries. We focus on the necessity of multidisciplinary approaches that estimate and predict how selected indicators such as:(1) Improved sanitation facilities (%...

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Environmental Performance, Environmental Risk and Risk Management

Dobler, Michael; Lajili, Kaouthar; Zeghal, Daniel - 2014

Environmental performance, environmental risk and its management are of contemporary interest, but to date there is limited evidence on their relationships. This paper is the first to provide detailed insights by adopting a content analysis approach and disaggregating firm-level environmental...

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International Business is Contributing to Environmental Crises

Yu, Haitao; Bansal, Pratima (Tima); Arjaliès, Diane-Laure - 2022

All business contributes to environmental crises because of its focus on profit. We argue that international business (IB) contributes more than its fair share. IB's focus on cross-border arbitrage has led to the over-extraction of natural resources and the accumulation of waste. This is a...

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Ecology and Violence : The Environmental Dimensions of War

Schipani, Cindy A.; Fort, Timothy L. - 2014

Research reported by Thomas Homer-Dixon characterizes five social effects that can significantly increase the likelihood of violence in the emerging world, effects that are far deeper than can be controlled by security forces: (1) constrained agricultural production, often in ecologically...

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The Effect of Competition on Toxic Pollution Releases

Simon, Daniel H.; Prince, Jeffrey - 2015

’s toxic releases. At the same time, we find no evidence that competition increases aggregate pollution. Further analysis sheds … some light on the mechanisms through which firms reduce pollution releases due to increased competition. In particular, we … evidence that our result is driven by: consumer aversion to pollution, regulations changing with competition, or technologies …

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Voluntary Environmental Reporting Practices : A Further Study of 'Poor' Environmental Performers

Mitchell, Jason D.; Percy, Majella; McKinlay, Bridget - 2014

We investigate the relationship between 'poor' environmental performance and voluntary environmental disclosures in annual reports of Australian listed companies. 'Poor' environmental performance is defined as those instances where companies have been subject to a successful Environmental...

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Green Links : Corporate Networks and Environmental Performance

Asgharian, Hossein; Dzieliński, Michał; Hashemzadeh, Zahra - 2022

We investigate how corporate environmental performance propagates in firm networks. We find the strongest effect among competitors. The degree of spillover depends on competitors’ relative market share and number of connections in different networks. It is especially strong among competitors...

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