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This study analyses ten strategic indicators analyzed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with the greater purpose of analyzing Brazil's performance compared to OECD member countries. The indicators analyzed were: i) water withdrawals; ii) wastewater treatment;...
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The goal of this paper is to analyze the local government's perception about the significance of a discrete multi-criteria method for assessing proposals for urban expansion (PUE). The study case was performed, by using PROMETHEE method, in Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina. The decision matrix...
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Even though the sustainable development concept has been largely debated in the literature and its essence is very clear, the way in which it is implemented differs between countries and regions. The main challenge for the European Union is to tackle the differences in the development level...
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sustainability. Additionally, it explains the opposing relations between the economic interest and preserving the protected area. …
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More and better collaboration between farmers and other stakeholders has repeatedly been identified as a key strategy for sustainable agriculture. However, for collaboration to actually benefit sustainable agriculture certain conditions have to be met. In this paper, we scrutinize the conditions...
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Environmental entrepreneurship bears great potential to promote sustainable development. Several influencing factors on the level of environmental orientation have been identified by past literature. In this respect, mixed results occur with regard to the influence of gender on environmental...
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In the race against climate change, small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) play a fundamental role. To clarify the contribution of corporate culture to SMEs' emission reduction, three perspectives can be useful: corporate culture as driver and barrier, current and planned corporate culture...
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manage and improve business sustainability are not applied widely amongst food manufacturing SMEs yet. Therefore, this paper … qualitative analysis of expert opinions, light is shed on needed initial requirements of a sustainability management tool for SMEs … value of a sustainability management tool for SMEs. The different aspects hint at a sustainability management tool …
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We analyze the effect of chief executive officer (CEO) narcissism on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting. The study relies partly on hand‐collected, visual data and covers 57 German DAX 40 and MDAX companies from 2016 to 2020 (266 company‐year observations, Bloomberg...
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Culture matters for credible corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting. I show that firms located in countries with stronger cultural rule orientation are more likely to (a) receive assurance on their CSR report, (b) receive assurance from an accounting firm, (c) receive assurance in...
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