An Assessment of Best Practices of Corporate Sustainability Strategies in Canadian SMEs
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Humanity is faced with existential threats of our own doing that require our collective action. Small-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by virtue of their large numbers and prevalence in society have the potential to contribute to economic, social, and environmental development and play a critical role in Sustainability at a global level. This can be accomplished through their business practices, systems, policies, and interactions. The purpose of this study is to explore the corporate sustainability practices of SMEs ranked highly for their involvement in Sustainability through an online survey with key representatives of seventeen (17) SMEs. The findings demonstrated that many companies are willing to play a greater role in CSR/ Corporate Sustainability but are stymied by the lack of resources, applicable frameworks, and an enabling environment. These results have valuable implications for SMEs, academia, Government, NGOs, business associations, and the private sector.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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".