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Eco‐Innovation Among Environmental Small and Medium Enterprises: A Complexity Theory View on a Regional Paradox

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental entrepreneurship and eco‐innovation, although cornerstones in the transition to a sustainable world, form a research nexus that remains largely understudied. We draw on the theory of complexity and the notion of cultural, temporal, and relational complexities to explain the process of eco‐innovation among environmental small ...
Georgios Outsios, Stefan Chichevaliev
wiley   +1 more source

The Adoption of Sufficiency Practices in Sustainability‐Oriented Businesses: A Mixed‐Methods Study of Enablers, Challenges, and Benefits

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sufficiency is increasingly seen as a necessary complement to efficiency and circularity strategies to help prevent the transgression of planetary boundaries. However, empirical evidence on their broader relevance in business remains limited.
Maike Gossen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Voices From the Coast: Stakeholder Participation and Perception on Creating a Marine Protected Area

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores participatory processes in the context of marine conservation, with a specific focus on recent initiatives undertaken by the Apulia region in Italy to establish a new Marine Protected Area (MPA). Employing a qualitative cross‐sectional methodology, the study investigates how local communities perceive and engage with the ...
Giampiero Palazzo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Are Consumers Ambivalent About AI‐Generated Images? The Moderating Role of Commercial Versus Noncommercial Content Type

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Grounded in ambivalence theories, this research examined factors shaping consumer ambivalence toward AI‐generated content and investigated differences between commercial and noncommercial contexts. As a preliminary study, sentiment analysis of Reddit data using a support vector machine (SVM) revealed that most consumer sentiment toward AI ...
Garim Lee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring the Burden of Choice: Development and Validation of a Choice Overload Scale

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Excessive choice imposes substantial cognitive demands on consumers, impair decision‐making, and generate negative consumer responses—a phenomenon widely known as the choice overload effect. Despite its conceptual prominence in consumer research and its enduring relevance in today's consumer markets, existing approaches to measuring choice ...
Jennifer Musial
wiley   +1 more source

From Confusion to Clarity: A Multi‐Stage Process Framework for Understanding Consumer Confusion

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper reconceptualizes consumer confusion as a multi‐stage temporal process rather than a static outcome, addressing theoretical fragmentation in existing antecedent‐consequence models. By integrating cognitive appraisal, contextual amplification, and adaptive coping within a unified framework, we explain how confusion unfolds rather than
Fatih Celik, Erdogan Koc
wiley   +1 more source

A Strategic Action Plan to Advance Circular Economy Practices in the Automotive Industry Based on Sector Insights to Support Sustainable Development

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The circular economy is gaining traction as a transformative approach to address climate change and the shortcomings of the linear economic model, which is defined by unsustainable production and consumption patterns. This study explores the implementation of circularity principles in the Spanish automotive industry, with particular attention ...
Salvador Perez‐Canto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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