Bibliographic record
Abstract
Family firms are important and dynamic participants in the world economy. They account for two thirds of all businesses around the world, constitute between 70 and 95% of all business entities in most countries, and range in size from small partnerships to Fortune 500 firms such as Ford and Wal-Mart. Hence, society cannot achieve its goal of a sustainable natural environment without engaging this important sector of the global economy. Since research in both environmental strategy and family business is pluralistic, drawing on literature in strategy, economics, finance, organization theory, organization behavior, and entrepreneurship, research on the drivers and barriers for family firms undertaking a proactive environmental strategy is likely to generate new theoretical insights and frameworks at the intersection of these disciplines. While there is over three decades of extant research in environmental sustainability in non-family controlled firms with dispersed ownership, family firms are significantly under-researched in this area of inquiry largely due to the difficulty of obtaining data from closely held private family firms. Proactive environmental sustainability strategies require patient long-term investments in innovations in products, services, technologies, business models, and entering new emerging markets. Hence, our central motivating theme for this symposium is whether family firms, less subject to short-term financial reporting requirements and with a focus on trans-generational continuity of business, would be more likely to make patient long-term investments required for innovations in products, services, processes, technologies and business models to address the environmental sustainability challenges of the world? This symposium brings together leading scholars working at the interface of environmental sustainability, strategic management and entrepreneurial family business to unpack how the positive and negative characteristics of family firms make them more or less likely to undertake patient investments in proactive sustainability strategies that may have uncertain and/or long-term paybacks. Is Family Business Uniquely Positioned to Accelerate the Transformation to Sustainability? Presenter: Stuart Hart; U. of Vermont Executive Religiosity and Eco-Sustainable Behavior in Family Firms Presenter: ; Miller, Danny Presenter: ; Le Breton-Miller, Isabelle From Family Firm CSR to Family Firm Philanthropy in Latino Business Families Presenter: Cristina Cruz; IE Business School Family Firms’ Use of Symbolic and Substantive CSR for Financial Gain Presenter: Peter Jaskiewicz; Telfer School of Management, U. of Ottawa Presenter: Jim Combs; U. of Central Florida Presenter: Rahul Ravi; John Molson School of Business, Concordia U. Presenter: Judith Louise Walls; HSG U. of St. Gallen The Role of Family Firms in Environmental Sustainability: An Integrative Model Presenter: Sanjay Sharma; U. of Vermont Presenter: Pramodita Sharma; U. of Vermont
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".