The COVID-19 pandemic presented an unprecedented challenge for the tourism industry, disrupting operations, reducing customer demand, and forcing businesses to adapt quickly to a new reality. This study explored the impact of COVID-19 on the tourism and hospitality industry and addresses a...

Background: The growing complexity of last-mile logistics (LML) in urban environments has created an urgent need for sustainable, efficient, and stakeholder-inclusive solutions. This study addresses these challenges by exploring a holistic, human-centered approach to evaluating LML strategies,...

This study aimed to examine the growth of social enterprises, their operational diversity and impact, and their characteristics from the stakeholders' perspective focusing on the diversity and influence of social enterprises in the Republic of Korea. Based on data from periodical reports,...

Not-for-profit organizations provide a range of services that satisfy the needs of individuals and help a community to be sustainable. To explain how staff based at a social inclusion community center contribute to social impact, we undertake a case study and incorporate the stakeholder approach...

Stakeholder scholarship has made significant progress in identifying the factors that contribute to the successful impact of stakeholder collaborations on corporate environmental sustainability. An issue that has received less attention in this scholarship is an analysis of cases where...

Formulating decarbonisation strategies with carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies, as well as integration of an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy into the core business of multinational companies, are highly debated research areas. The former would bring...

As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption accelerates globally, its sustainability implications remain insufficiently integrated into organizational capability frameworks. This study develops and validates the organizational sustainable AI capabilities (OSAIC) construct, extending dynamic...

Background: Sustainable supply chain development is a global priority driven by resource depletion, socio-economic challenges, and environmental concerns. Existing biofuel supply chain studies, however, often focus on isolated upstream or downstream processes and inadequately address...

Financial institutions face increased reputational, regulatory, and ethical risks as the frequency and complexity of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) controversies increase. Whistleblowing mechanisms are essential in the context of institutional resilience and the mitigation of...

This paper aims to explore the impact of climate-related risks on corporate performance, specifically within the healthcare sector.It analyses three key factors: climate risk physical leverage, government climate risk scores and environmental performance scores, using global data from 977 firm...

"Redefining Management: The Manager/Leader-Relevant Stakeholder Paradigm presents a groundbreaking shift in management philosophy, theory, and practice, introducing the innovative concept of the manager/leader-relevant stakeholder. This paradigm challenges the traditional manager-subordinate...

This book provides a captivating and data-driven exploration of ESG strategies, examining their driving forces and financial impact on firms and capital markets. While ESG adoption has gained significant momentum, the financial implications of ESG strategies remain a debated topic. This book...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted traditional ways of learning and teaching, leading to a significant shift toward e-learning. This shift has resulted in the emergence of new challenges and opportunities for stakeholders involved in the education sector. To ensure the continuity of...

We utilize stakeholder, critical mass, and upper-echelon theories to investigate the effect of female representation on boards as corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices and firm performance of A-share listed companies in China. The indicators used were the proportion of female board...

Wie werden verschiedene Verfahren zur Entnahme von CO₂ aus der Atmosphäre von Stakeholdern in unterschiedlichen Regionen Deutschlands wahrgenommen? Dieser Frage sind Workshops des Projektes "BioNET - Multi-stage assessment of biobased negative emission technologies"1 nachgegangen, um...

Das Projekt "E-Akteur" untersuchte zentrale rechtliche, ökonomische und soziale Aspekte des End-of-Life-Managements von Elektrofahrzeugbatterien im Kontext einer zirkulären Wertschöpfung. Analysiert wurden Akteursrollen entlang der Batterie-Wertschöpfungskette, insbesondere bislang wenig...

The term "stakeholder" features prominently in discourses surrounding tech policy. It is used as a marker for engaging with wider organisations and publics beyond government and the companies that make technologies. But what does this term do in practice? What roles does it create or deny, what...

Does shareholder visibility affect firms' prosocial behavior? What implications for other shareholders? Exploiting quasi-experimental variation from media coverage around Annual General Meetings and major crises (COVID-19 pandemic and Russian invasion of Ukraine), we show that prominent...

The term "stakeholder" features prominently in discourses surrounding tech policy. It is used as a marker for engaging with wider organisations and publics beyond government and the companies that make technologies. But what does this term do in practice? What roles does it create or deny, what...

Cryptocurrency is the most innovative financial and technological breakthrough of this generation. Investment in cryptocurrency grew from USD 11.18 billion in December 2016 to USD 2.147 trillion in April 2024; however, the rationality of investor exuberance is uncertain. This paper explores...

The dynamic development of Smart Cities, rooted in the idea of sustainable development, requires the implementation of innovative and integrated technological and social solutions. One approach that enables more effective achievement of these goals is the concept of Open Innovation, based on...