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A pilot telephone intervention to increase uptake of breast cancer screening in socially deprived areas in Scotland (TELBRECS):study protocol for a randomised controlled trial [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Breast cancer accounts for almost 30% of all cancers and is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women in Scotland. Screening is key to early detection.
Cavanagh, Julie +7 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Implementing digital technologies is touted as the next big step for the firms aiming to improve sustainability in their supply chains. These technologies are often credited with the potential to improve transparency and achieve sustainability.
Amna Farrukh, Aqeel Ahmed, Sadaat Yawar
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Preference Falsification and Patronage [PDF]
In this paper we develop a model of patronage where the king's subjects exert a decentralized social sanction on the dissidents. We are able to show that depending on the succession rule in case of a revolution, the optimal co-optation strategy of the ...
Petros G. Sekeris
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Klienten, Klientelstaaten und Klientelkönige bei denGermanen [PDF]
, 2015 Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, ob die Begriffe Klienten, Klientelstaaten und Klientelkönige für die Beziehungen zwischen Römern und Germanen im 1. und 2. Jh. n. Chr. verwendet werden können.
Johne, Klaus-Peter
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Strategic Impact of EU Taxonomy on Pharmaceutical Firms' Performance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability has become a central concern in economic policy and corporate governance, increasingly formalised through regulatory frameworks of the European Union (EU). The European Commission has published the EU Taxonomy, which allows economic activities and their contribution to sustainability to be analysed, taking into account ...
Alicia Ramírez‐Orellana +3 more
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Navigating the Double Edge of Product‐Service Systems: User Behavior, Adoption, and Rebound Effects
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Product‐service systems (PSS) have been considered a promising approach to operationalizing the circular economy. Although many studies have outlined the potential sustainability gains of PSS solutions, it is still unclear what factors drive PSS adoption and how behavioral changes result in rebound effects, undermining their potential ...
Marina Fernandes Aguiar +3 more
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Board diversity and performance of microfinance institutions (MFIS): Evidence from an emerging economy [PDF]
, 2018 Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) are important service providers of finance for unbanked people and have experienced a high growth over the past decades.
Thrikawala, Sujani, Locke, Stuart
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Conceptualising Supply Chain Resilience Within Social Enterprises
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research seeks to conceptualise supply chain resilience (SCRes) in a social enterprise (SE) context, focusing on SEs with a social mission to tackle food insecurity and food poverty. Despite the increasingly mature field of SCRes and awareness of the critical role SEs play in tackling social challenges such as food poverty, no studies ...
Alexander James Jones +3 more
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Elaborating the Motivations and Attitudes Driving Interest in Voluntary Biodiversity Credits
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global biodiversity loss has prompted the search for new sources of conservation finance, such as voluntary biodiversity credits (VBCs). However, despite optimistic market projections, current uptake of VBCs is limited. Adopting an interpretive approach, we analyse 21 semistructured interviews with early market actors (buyers, sellers ...
Gamze Yakar‐Pritchard +5 more
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An on-going assessment of the state of the spin-out sector in England
, 2014 The provision of public services in England has received large amounts of policy attention over the last three decades. During this time there have been numerous and far-reaching public-sector reforms, which have resulted in less direct provision of ...
Hazenberg, Richard +2 more
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