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Record W4414544823 · doi:10.1002/csr.70194

Growth Debunked for Investors

2025· article· en· W4414544823 on OpenAlexafffund
Thi Le Hoa Vo, Gulliver Lux, Emmanuelle Fromont

Bibliographic record

VenueCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicState Capitalism and Financial Governance
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec à Montréal
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsDegrowthGreen growthPrioritizationPoliticsInvestment (military)Opposition (politics)Relevance (law)Ecological economicsFinancialization

Abstract

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ABSTRACT Growth and degrowth have become key issues in the discourse on sustainability, and their quantification (growth/degrowth rates) has become integral to the limited number of indicators used to evaluate the ecological aspects of political and organizational decisions. This paper empirically examines the relevance of corporate growth and degrowth indicators for investors whose investment strategies align with the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Based on financial and environmental data from companies listed in the SBF 120 (the French large‐cap index) from 2016 to 2022, our findings indicate that investors' valuations of environmentally focused (green) firms are positively correlated with financial performance but appear insensitive to fluctuations in these firms' operational growth rates. Through integrating analyses of both green growth and degrowth enterprises, this study contributes to the debate by highlighting how the prevalent binary opposition between these concepts may hinder effective decision making and action. Also, our results prompt us to question the widespread prioritization of economic growth in public discourse. We thus propose adopting an “a‐growth” perspective as an alternative approach to more effectively advance environmental objectives.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.015
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.020

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.015
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.212
Teacher spread0.192 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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