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This paper adopts a moral economy framework to analyse the unique and collective experience of remote work during the UK pandemic lockdowns. Through analysis of qualitative interviews with workers based at home during periods of lockdown, we explore how this offered workers a new opportunity to evaluate a particular type of work extensification experienced when working onsite. We found that workers gained clarity over ‘preparing-for-work’, commuting and other unpaid labour as unfairly burdeni...

This study examines the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) committee characteristics, namely the committee size, independence, chairperson independence, and meeting frequency, on firms’ carbon emission performance. The authors test the hypotheses through a panel data analysis for a sample of non-financial firms listed on the Bloomberg World Large and Mid-Index from 2010 to 2020. Using data from Refinitiv Eikon and Bloomberg databases, the findings show that the CSR committee’s pr...

The declining rate of biodiversity due to land, water and air pollution is alarming. Thus, stakeholders expect firms to engage with cleaner operational processes to preserve biodiversity and share undertaken practices with biodiversity disclosure. To provide a catalyst for biodiversity engagement and disclosure, we adopt two important mechanisms: the internal (i.e. board structure) and external governance mechanisms (the United Nations Global Compact [UNGC] signatory commitment and public gov...

This paper uses over twenty years of data to examine diversification benefits for U.S. investors through assessing different portfolio opportunities, including a stock (60%)-bond (40%) portfolio, an internationally diversified stock portfolio, and a cross-asset diversified portfolio compared with investing only in the U.S. stock market. Our data set consists of three stock indices (S&P 500, MSCI EAFE, and MSCI EM) and three assets (Gold, Oil, and Bonds). Portfolios are built using both equal-...