The purpose of the present paper is to help bring some advances in the characterization of the emerging stakeholder model of corporate governance. This shall be achieved by analyzing CSR function at board level, board diversity and stakeholder engagement and by examining its relationship with financial performance. Based on an empirical study of an international sample of large companies, we fo...

Purpose. The paper aims at finding out how significantly stakeholders are consulted and involved by preparers, Ukrainian publicly-listed agricultural companies, while compiling sustainability reporting (SR) assurance providers, during processes of SR. paper’s main research question may be formulated as follows ‘How deeply companies in the preparation their assurance?’ 
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BACKGROUND Biomedical research is increasingly globalized with ever more research conducted in low and middle-income countries. This trend raises a host of ethical concerns and critiques. While community engagement (CE) has been proposed as an ethically important practice for global biomedical research, there is no agreement about what these practices contribute to the ethics of research, or wh...

The use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing technologies for the development water quality management programs post-implementation assessments has increased dramatically in past decade. This increase adoption been made more accessible through interfaces many popular software tools used regulation assessment quality. Customized applications these will increase, as ease acc...

The nine health impact assessment (HIA) case studies in this issue represent a considerable contribution to the HIA literature and provide a number of lessons. These lessons include the value of using evidence in HIA to aid decision-making; the various forms that stakeholder and community involvement in HIA can take; and the fact that HIA can act as a catalyst for intersectoral engagement. They...

Quantitative pharmacology (QP) applications in translational medicine, drug-development, and therapeutic use were crowd-sourced by the ASCPT Impact and Influence initiative. Highlighted QP case studies demonstrated faster access to innovative therapies for patients through 1) rational dose selection for pivotal trials; 2) reduced trial-burden for vulnerable populations; or 3) simplified posolog...

CONTEXT There is a strong interest in the Veterans Administration (VA) Health-care System in promoting patient engagement to improve patient care. METHODS We solicited expert opinion using an online expert panel system with a modified Delphi structure called ExpertLens™ . Experts reviewed, rated and discussed eight scenarios, representing four patient engagement roles in designing and improvi...

OBJECTIVE To identify characteristics (factors) about health technology assessment (HTA) decisions that are important to the public in determining whether public engagement should be undertaken and the reasons for these choices. DESIGN Focus groups using a nominal group technique to identify and rank factors relevant to public engagement in HTA decision-making. Thematic analysis was also unde...

Significance for public healthRisk-based decision making is a core feature of government actions aimed at protecting public health from the adverse effects of environmental hazards. In the past, it has often been an expert-driven, mostly obscure process used by federal agencies to justify and defend regulatory decisions made outside the public arena. But the nature of decision making has change...