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Tensions of Sustainability Logics: Performance of a Company Utilizing a Sustainable Business Model
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, companies have used sustainable business models to gain a competitive advantage. However, there are tensions due to the inconsistency between social, environmental, and economic logic in sustainable business models, making it difficult for companies to change. To understand the existing tensions and interactions between logics,
Ann‐Kristin Thienemann
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Autopoiesis of the techno-social systems as a factor of social risks proliferation
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2015 The article describes the problem of the unpredictable proliferation and complication of techno-social systems (such as Internet and financial markets).
D E Orlov, N A Orlova
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular ecosystems connect diverse actors who collaborate to close resource loops and pursue sustainable goals without centralized control. Such arrangements entail heightened interdependence and uncertainty, making trust, understood as the willingness to accept vulnerability based on positive expectations of others' behavior, a critical ...
Inken Hoeck, Tassilo Schuster
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Making non-compliance visible: how smart bins reshape social norms in urban waste management
Frontiers in SociologyUrban waste management increasingly relies on hybrid collection systems based on controlled-access smart bins. Their implicit promise is to strengthen compliance by increasing behavioural control while reducing the organisational costs associated with ...
Claudio Marciano +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nonfood geographical indications (GIs) are increasingly emerging as collective sustainability strategies. They enable territories to transform cultural and productive heritage into sources of long‐term competitive advantage. While existing research recognises their regulatory and cultural relevance, limited attention has been paid to how ...
Giovanni Peira, Alessandro Bonadonna
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Board Structure and ESG Outcomes: A Comprehensive Review and Pathways for Future Research
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study provides a comprehensive systematic review of 265 scholarly articles that examine the relationship between board diversity and environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices. The analysis critically maps existing research and identifies key thematic trends, revealing that most studies focus on gender and independence while ...
Karim Mahran +3 more
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Harrison White : des réseaux sociaux à une théorie structurale de l'action
Sociologies, 2007 Harrison White is a major figure of North American sociology and an important theorist of social network analysis. His book Identity and Control, first published in 1992 and currently being revised for a second edition, proposes a structural theory of ...
Michel Grossetti, Frédéric Godart
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Conceptualizing Corporate Political Activity for Sustainability Governance—The CPA Cube
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability transformations in the economy, and related public policy decisions, are highly contested, attracting business involvement. To better understand how business influence on government impacts the success or failure of sustainability governance efforts, this paper extends the literature on corporate political activity (CPA) by ...
Burkard Eberlein, Janina Grabs
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Thinking Complexity with Harrison White: Towards Social Emergence via Indexical Language
SociologicaHarrison C. White, a founding giant of the relational turn in Sociology, has left us a monumental model of social emergence based on the interplay of three primitives (identity, control, switching) and two principles (self-similarity, dispersion) of ...
Jorge Fontdevila
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Green human resource management is increasingly recognised as essential for integrating environmental concerns into organisational strategies. Drawing on qualitative data from 30 professionals in Nigeria's oil and gas industry, this study explores how inconsistencies between employees' environmental values and GHRM practices influence ...
Winifred Aina +2 more
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