Essays about: "Institutional Based View"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 70 essays containing the words Institutional Based View.

  1. 16. Doing good while doing well - A qualitative study on how business angels respond to competing logics in impact investing

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

    Author : Maja Ohlsson; Elias Weike; [2021]
    Keywords : Impact investing; Business angels; Institutional logics; Institutional complexity;

    Abstract : Impact investing has emerged as a new mechanism by which early-stage start-ups pursuing social or environmental goals are funded. Business angels are critical actors in supporting early-stage start-ups and therefore could play an important part in accelerating this field. READ MORE

  3. 17. Incentivising Intra-Organisational Sustainability Development at GANNI

    University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi

    Author : Melanie Hermeling; Laura Dittmann; [2021]
    Keywords : Social Physics; Management Control Systems; Fashion; Institutional Theory; Resource-Based View; Sustainability Development; Incentivisation; Design Thinking;

    Abstract : Background – Under the acceleration in globalising tendencies of monopoly capitalism aided by social hyper-connectivity and a supply of cheap international labour, fashion companies struggle to find sufficient agency to manoeuvre their way out of the unsustainable, self-inflicted problems. Since fashion companies' rhetoric on sustainability matters is often far ahead of corporate action, it requires further development and engagement by all actors. READ MORE

  4. 18. The internationalization of Chinese development NGOs: Policy-driven or resource-driven?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Mirjam Ait; [2021]
    Keywords : Non-governmental organizations; China; Social organizations; Internationalization; Resource Dependence; Resource-Based View; International development; Belt and Road Initiative; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Paralleling China’s increasing engagement in international development cooperation, Chinese development NGOs have expanded their projects abroad in recent years. Simultaneously, the government is encouraging NGOs to “go out” and foster “people-to-people connections” in countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). READ MORE

  5. 19. Family farm and financial asset : external land ownership and family agriculture on the Swedish Plains

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Hedvig Goldhahn; [2021]
    Keywords : financialization; family farming; land ownership; tenancy; Uppsala Akademiförvaltning;

    Abstract : In Sweden, the potential deregulation of the land market has been discussed in recent years, motivated by the increasing demand for external capital in agriculture. Corporate entities’ are currently restricted from purchasing farmland by the Swedish Land Acquisition Act. READ MORE

  6. 20. FIDUCIARY DUTY AND ESG CONSIDERATIONS – ARE THEY COMPATIBLE? A case study on institutional investors and their commitment to the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Jenny Asplund; William Samadzadehaghdam; [2020-07-01]
    Keywords : SRI; Fiduciary duty; ESG; Institutional investors; Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance; Shareholder engagement;

    Abstract : As a response to the issues regarding climate change, several organizations and initiatives are founded to tackle them, such as the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (AOA), backed by the United Nations. The explicit goal of the institutional investors in this alliance is to decarbonize their portfolios by 2050. READ MORE