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Does Formalization Facilitate Environmental Improvements in the Artisanal and Small‐Scale Mining Sector?

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the link between formalization and environmental performance in the artisanal and small‐scale mining (ASM) sector, focusing on the case of sub‐Saharan Africa. The impression often conveyed by experts is that a commitment to formalizing ASM—that is, moves made to bring the sector's operations into the legal domain, where ...
Gavin Hilson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lean, Green, and Sustainability 4.0—A Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This purpose of the study is to conduct a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis to explore the integration of Lean–Green–Sustainability (LGS) with Industry 4.0 technologies for holistic organizational development. Following PRISMA guidelines, the study critically examines the evolving research, identifying an increasing ...
Diogo Marques Vilaça   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prioritizing Processes: Removing Barriers for Adult Learners at Community Colleges Through Process Improvement

open access: yesNew Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT NC Reconnect, an effort of the John M. Belk Endowment (JMBE), aims to engage or reengage adult learners over the age of 25 in North Carolina's community colleges to bridge the postsecondary education attainment gap and improve economic mobility within the state.
Emily R. VanZoest
wiley   +1 more source

Hyperledger Fabric for the (digitalized) lifecycle of construction products: Applied review on fastening technology

open access: yesCivil Engineering Design, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 9-22, March 2025.
Abstract Blockchain technology is a digital decentralized data ledger recording transactions in an encrypted format. Its implementation can potentially hold significant advantages for the built environment, particularly in manufacturing and building product usage aligned with Building Information Modeling (BIM). This paradigm shift toward decentralized
Aileen Pfeil   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Dialogue With the (il)Legitimate Other: An Action‐Oriented and Dialogical Account of Social Representations in Urban‐Integration Policy

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using semi‐structured interviews, we investigate how professionals involved in implementing or communicating a controversial Danish integration policy articulated their perspectives on the policy. This policy—the ‘the parallel society agreement’ (also known as the ‘ghetto‐laws’)—aims to draw a ‘Danish’ middle class into marginalized public ...
Thomas Madsen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Being Absorbed: Taking up Dialogic Pedagogy in University Diversity Plans

open access: yesNew Directions for Higher Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What are we to make of the proliferation of Intergroup Dialogue (IGD) programs for social justice education on college campuses? Though the inception of IGD predates many institutions’ diversity plans, increasingly colleges and universities are citing their existing IGD programs in their present‐day plans, as IGDs effectiveness has been well ...
Stephanie D. Hicks
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability Performance and Corporate Risk: Evidence From the Tourism Industry

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of sustainability performance (Refinitiv Environmental, Social, and Governance [ESG] scores) on corporate risk (CR). We apply stakeholder theory and the resource‐based view to an international sample of 247 tourism firms from 2002 to 2018.
Omneya Abdelsalam   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Acting authentically: Using play to cultivate authentic interrelating in role performance

open access: yesJournal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
Summary Research is increasingly demonstrating that authenticity and human connection are fundamental and interrelated human needs. However, organizational roles often constrain authenticity and connection in workplace interactions, especially roles that are highly scripted.
Lyndon E. Garrett
wiley   +1 more source

Success and Failure of Blockchain Technology Providers: Founders' Power, Beyond‐Blockchain Exploration and Centralized Decision‐Making

open access: yesJournal of Operations Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite a growing focus on blockchain adoption within operations and supply chains, these initiatives exhibit an exceedingly high failure rate, with many failing to achieve sustainable success. Why are enterprise blockchain adoptions highly susceptible to failure?
Yuanzhu Zhan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of a Buyer's Incentives and Organizational Structure on Suppliers' Quality

open access: yesJournal of Operations Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Changes in a buyer organization's incentives and structure can have a significant impact on supply chain performance, such as the quality of sourced components. We examine this relationship using data from a unique quasi‐experiment where one of the two plants of a buyer introduced long‐term quality improvement incentives and a more organic ...
Anupam Agrawal, Ujjal Kumar Mukherjee
wiley   +1 more source

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