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Changing business perceptions regarding biodiversity: from impact mitigation towards new strategies and practices
Houdet, Joël; Trommetter, Michel; Weber, Jacques - HAL - 2009
Business activities play a major role in biodiversity loss and, as a result, firms are under increasing pressures from … stakeholders to reduce their negative impacts on living systems. In response, business attitudes, behaviors and strategies … regarding biodiversity are progressively changing, suggesting that interactions between business and biodiversity could go …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793652
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Accounting for changes in biodiversity and ecosystem services from a business perspective
Houdet, Joël; Pavageau, Charlotte; Trommetter, Michel; … - HAL - 2009
a business perspective. First, we seek to analyze how Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) may be used by firms to … changes in business accounting and reporting standards. Because this would imply significant changes in business information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793760
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A Rational Irrational Man?
Harin, Alexander - HAL - 2006
A man is a key subject of economics. “A man is irrational” - this opinion can be made from Allais paradox, risk aversion and other well-known fundamental problems. For a long time, this opinion was a barrier to proper solution of these problems and the development of the economics. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794157
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Abatement technology and the environment-growth nexus with education
Pautrel, Xavier - HAL - 2011
This article challenges the conventional result that a tighter environmental tax has no long-run effect on human capital accumulation in the presence of pollution arising from final output production. It demonstrates that the technology used in the abatement sector determines the existence and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855841
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Human capital, social capital and scientific research in Europe: an application of linear hierarchical models
Goudard, Mathieu; Lubrano, Michel - HAL - 2011
The theory of human capital is one way to explain individual decisions to produce scientific research. However, this theory, even if it reckons the importance of time in science, is too short for explaining the existing diversity of scientific output. The present paper introduces the social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147624
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Schooling and youth mortality: learning from a mass military exemption
Cipollone, Piero; Rosolia, Alfonso - Banca d'Italia - 2011
We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several cohorts of young men from specific southern towns were unexpectedly exempted from compulsory military service after a major quake hit the region. Comparisons of exempt cohorts from...
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Structural change and human capital in Italy�s productive economy
Torrini, Roberto; Schivardi, Fabiano - Banca d'Italia - 2011
We study the role of human capital in the restructuring of the Italian economy. The share of university graduates in the population has long been far lower in Italy (12 per cent in 2007) that in the rest of Europe (24 per cent). The 3+2 reform of Italian degree programmes has significantly...
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La RSE comme instrument de la gouvernance d'entreprise
Cézanne, Cécile; Rubinstein, Marianne - HAL - 2010
Après avoir mis en évidence les problèmes de gouvernance posés par la " nouvelle firme ", désintégrée verticalement et intensive en capital humain, nous avançons que la responsabilité sociale de l'entreprise (RSE) peut servir à réguler les rapports de force entre les partenaires...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323659
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Capital humain, prestataires de services logistiques et frontières de la firme
Cézanne, Cécile; Saglietto, Laurence - HAL - 2011
The aim of this paper is to analyze the changing boundaries of human capital-intensive firms resulting from the growing importance of the fourth party logistics. The specific relationships between these partners are at the origin of a real evolution in the way of studying the interfirm...
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Growth vs level effect of population change on economic development: An inspection into human-capital-related mechanisms
Boucekkine, Raouf; Martínez, Blanca; Ruiz-Tamarit, Ramon - HAL - 2011
We study the impact of demographic change on economic short and long-term dynamics in an enlarged Lucas-Uzawa model with intratemporal altruism. Demographics are summarized by population growth rate and initial size. In contrast to the existing literature, the long-run level effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325720