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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 ...
Determinants of Corporate Anti-Corruption Disclosure: The Case of the Emerging Economics
(MDPI, 2021-03-20)
Corruption is a key factor that affects countries’ development, with emerging countries being a geographical area in which it tends to generate greater negative effects. However, few empirical studies analyze corruption ...
Is Longevity Acceleration Sustainable? An Entropy-Based Trial of the Population of Spain vs. Japan
(MDPI, 2021-07-30)
Longevity risk is a major concern for governments around the world as they have to address social benefits, whether in the form of pensions, healthcare, or caring for dependents and providing long-term care, and so forth, ...
The Role of Beekeeping in the Generation of Goods and Services: The Interrelation between Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Sociocultural Utilities
(MDPI, 2022-04-12)
Honey bees and beekeeping belong to a large enterprise where the managers are the beekeepers, the workers are the bees, and the products generated are ecosystem goods and services, mostly intangible. Evidence for a reduction ...
Assessment of the Development of Forest-Based Bioeconomy in European Regions
(MDPI, 2022-04-15)
In recent years, the potential of the forest-based bioeconomy to provide competitiveness, differentiation, and sustainability to the European economy has often been claimed. Interestingly, regions, as territorial units ...
Mindfulness and Next-Generation Members of Family Firms: A Source for Sustainability
(MDPI, 2021-05-11)
Family businesses are considered complex organizations where emotional and management challenges need to be faced. This is even more difficult when time of succession arrives and the new members are expected to engage with ...
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 ...
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, ...