Scaling Sustainability Value in Sustainability Purpose Organizations

In this paper, we face the problem of global feeding sustainability and related environmental issues, with a strong attention to possible public heath improvements. In particular, we consider food producers and sellers of vegan (or vegetarian) and non-vegan (or non-vegetarian) food and we build up feasible and measurable contracts between two different food producers, in order to construct a more sustainable and healthier diet for future generations. At this aim, we use co-opetitive approach by means of game theory. Our co-opetitive approach consists in a game theory structure, which could help small local producers of vegan food a simpler entry in the global market and free significant publicity. At the same time, our mathematical construction suggests how big global producers/sellers of non-vegetarian food could develop a smooth rapid transaction to a more sustainable and healthier production/supply. Specifically, our game constitutes an asymmetric R&D alliance between McDonald’s and the local producer of the so called vegan product "Muscle of Wheat". We finally show a quantitative compromise solution, obtained by the Kalai-Smorodinsky principles, in a numerical study (exemplary) case.

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Corporate Governance and Financial Features of Portuguese Family Firms

Paiva

2022

Research Anthology on Strategies for Maintaining Successful Family Firms

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This study analyses whether corporate governance and financial features of private family firms are different from private non-family firms and discusses the role of private family firms in regional economic development. The evidence is drawn from a database of Portuguese private family owner-managed firms in order to determine the differences in the management and experiences of venture capital and other financing options. The main results demonstrated that family firms have significantly lower ratios of leverage, are less interested in venture capital, have much more experience in management and are less likely to be female than those in non-family firms. Our results indicate that the financial development of Portuguese private family firms is also consistent with the moderate tenet of family firms which could hamper their business growth and demonstrate that corporate governance features assist the family identity and the ability to exert family influence.

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Scaling Sustainability Value in Sustainability Purpose Organizations

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Coopetitive Games for Sustainability of Global Feeding and Climate Change: Recent Developments

Corporate Governance and Financial Features of Portuguese Family Firms

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