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Encouraging Sustainable Urban Access: An Exploratory Student Approach to Design of Product Service Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Urban access is a key trans-disciplinary design axiom looking to ensure that every member of the society can reach those locations and resources one needs for a sustainable standard of living and productivity.
Karjalainen, Toni-Matti   +2 more
core  

Circular Economy Platforms: A Systematic Review

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital platforms enable circular business models that can provide both economic and environmental benefits. However, the literature on platforms in the context of the circular economy has remained descriptive and fragmented across fields, posing challenges for synthesizing accumulated knowledge.
Outi Blackburn   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating Motives for Renting Shared Bicycles Using Multinomial Logistic Regression: A Case Study from the Slovak Republic

open access: yesApplied Sciences
This research aims to estimate the purposes for which bike-share users utilize shared bicycles from bike-sharing companies using selected predictors through multinomial logistic regression in Slovakia.
Stanislav Kubaľák   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Studying Solutions of the p-Median Problem for the Location of Public Bike Stations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The use of bicycles as a means of transport is becoming more and more popular today, especially in urban areas, to avoid the disadvantages of individual car traffic.
Alba-Torres, Enrique   +3 more
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Operationalising Sufficiency in an Organisational Context: A Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Efficiency‐led sustainability is important but often fails to deliver absolute reductions in resource use, leaving organisations exposed to rebound effects. What remains underexplored is how sufficiency, the strategic limitation of consumption and resource use, is operationalised within organisational contexts.
Shahrokh Nikou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Think Global, Act Local? Fortune 500 Business Strategies for Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11)

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of business towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been well established. However, SDG contextualization continues to pose a conundrum, particularly for firms operating in multiple contexts. This becomes even more problematic in the case of SDG 11, the only goal in the sustainable development agenda directly
Andreas Georgiou
wiley   +1 more source

Bike-Sharing: Is Safety an Issue Adversely Affecting its Potential for Being Embraced by Urban Societies? [PDF]

open access: yes
Using bicycles on an ‘as-needed’ basis, usually for a small rental fee and without the externalities and obligations linked to bicycle ownership, is what makes public bicycles a societally affordable medium to enhance the transition to a more sustainable
Michalakopoulos, Nikitas   +2 more
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Strategic Design through Brand Contextualization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Providing meaningful customer experience is at the core of any successful business activity. Brands can function as vehicles to bundle the ingredients of experience together and give them structure by which consumers are able to understand and interpret ...
Karjalainen, Toni-Matti   +2 more
core  

Navigating Market Constraints: Sustainable Startups Driving Transformative Change Through Venture Creation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to venture‐creation research by examining how sustainable startups can overcome market constraints to drive transformative change through their business development. Conceptually, we address this question by identifying venture‐creation narratives in the learning and experimental phases of sustainable startups that ...
Ville‐Veikko Piispanen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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