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The Environmental, Social, Governance, and Financial Performance Effects on Companies that Adopt the United Nations Global Compact
(MDPI, 2015-02)
This paper aims to investigate companies' environmental, social, governance (ESG), and financial implications of their commitment to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). The focus is placed on companies operating in ...
Weak or Strong Sustainability in Rural Land Use Planning? Assessing Two Case Studies through Multi-Criteria Analysis
(MDPI, 2020-03-19)
This paper addresses the debate regarding weak versus strong sustainability in the field of rural land use planning. Both concepts correspond to opposing paradigms on sustainability and both their fundamentals of economic ...
An exploratory study of the pressures and ethical dilemmas in the audit conflict
(Elsevier, 2016-01-09)
The present study analyzes the pressures perceived by auditors in their professional activity. Furthermore, it explores the ethical acceptability of questionable practices and the way auditors resolve the conflicts of ...
La comunicación digital empresarial de las empresas privadas del País Vasco: uso y evolución del euskera entre 2013 y 2017
(Escola d'Administració Pública de Catalunya, 2019-12)
The goal of this article is to understand the use that private companies in the autonomous community of the Basque Country make of digital external communication on social networks and the presence of Basque therein, to ...
Conceptual structure and perspectives on entrepreneurship education research: A bibliometric review
(Elsevier, 2019-06-20)
This study aims to review the field of Entrepreneurship Education (EE). The review examines 325 scientific articles published in refereed scientific journals from 1987 to 2017. The SciMat software was used to conduct an ...
Valuation of real-estate losses via Monte Carlo simulation
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis, 2020)
The valuation of the exposure to real estate market risk has traditionally been difficult due to the lack of appropriate data, returns that do not follow a normal distribution and a lack of adequate methodology. However, ...
Conflicting Values in Rural Planning: A Multifunctionality Approach through Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation
(MDPI, 2018-05)
The planning of rural land depends, to a large extent, on the agreed-upon agrarian and forestry development model. Within the framework of agrarian multifunctionality, to evaluate different development alternatives and ...
Firms’ board independence and corporate social performance: a meta-analysis
(MDPI, 2017-06-10)
This paper investigates the influence of organizations' board independence on corporate social performance (CSP) using a meta-analytic approach. A sample of 87 published papers is used to identify a set of underlying ...
Improving Knowledge about the Sustainable Development Goals through a Collaborative Learning Methodology and Serious Game
(MDPI, 2020-07-31)
The university is a key agent in the process of transformation towards sustainability within the framework of the 2030 Agenda. This study aims to analyze the usefulness of the collaborative learning methodology through a ...
Do Credit Ratings Take into Account the Sustainability Performance of Companies?
(MDPI, 2018-11-19)
In the last few decades, sustainability performance measuring has become a widely-studied issue, and various measurement proposals have been put forward. However, it is also important to know whether those measures are ...