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Debunking the Myth: A Dive Into the Role of Relational Capital in Sustainable Food Production Systems

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The shift towards sustainable food production is essential to address the urgent dual challenges of climate change and population growth, with agricultural cooperatives playing a vital role in this transformation. However, many cooperatives struggle to deliver the expected value to their members.
Ismail Badraoui, Tarik Saikouk, Nejib Fattam, Ahmed Hamdi, Vikas Kumar   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating mangrove community forestry outcomes: a mixed synthetic control and field-based approach

Environmental Research Letters
Contemporary evaluations of outcomes in human-managed systems have been constrained by a lack of counterfactual analysis. Community forestry (CF), a widely adopted strategy to achieve both conservation and management in coupled human-environment systems,
Irfan Khan Surattee, Aung Kyaw Naing, Shivani Agarwal, Maung Maung Than, Edward L Webb   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Consumers' Intention to Use Circular Business Models: A Configurational Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular business models (CBMs) integrate ecological sustainability and resource efficiency into core business strategies, but their success depends on consumers' intention to use. Grounded in expectancy–value theory, this study investigates how product‐related factors (perceived usefulness, convenience, value for money, and performance risk ...
Christof Falkenberg, Christian Garaus, Raphaela Hellmayr, Siegfried Pöchtrager, Petra Riefler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Government Subsidies for Industrial Symbiosis: Is It Always Worth It? Assessing Effectiveness and Efficiency Through Agent‐Based Modeling

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy intervention can be a driver for industrial symbiosis (IS). However, given the wide variety of policy instruments available, policymakers should be guided in the policy design process to ensure that their intervention is effective and efficient. In this paper, we propose an agent‐based (AB) model intended to assess the effectiveness and
Melissa Mollica, Alberto Nastasi, Luca Fraccascia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving well‐being and reducing deforestation in Indonesia's protected areas

Conservation Letters
Protected areas (PAs) are central to sustainability targets, yet few evaluations explore outcomes for both conservation and development, or the trade‐offs involved.
Courtney Leslie Morgans, Sophie Jago, Noviar Andayani, Matthew Linkie, Michaela G. Y. Lo, Sonny Mumbunan, Freya A. V. St. John, Jatna Supriatna, Maria Voigt, Nurul L. Winarni, Truly Santika, Matthew J. Struebig   +11 more
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The Impact of Self‐Checkout Technology on Shopping Behavior in B2B Retail: Evidence From Point‐Of‐Sale Transaction Data

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of self‐checkout technology implementation on B2B customer shopping behavior using a novel methodological approach that combines propensity score matching with difference‐in‐differences analysis on actual point‐of‐sale transaction data.
Jindřich Špička, Michaela Dvořáková   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantile estimates of counterfactual distribution shifts and the impact of minimum wage increases on the wage distribution [PDF]

This paper presents a method for estimating the effects of a policy change on an outcome distribution that uses a comparator quantile rather than a control group and provides methods for estimating the variances of the estimators.
Stewart, Mark
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Measuring the Impact of the Substitution of Innovator Biologics With Biosimilars on Uptake and Costs Among Ontario Public Drug Benefit Recipients

Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
In Ontario, biologics have historically represented a small proportion of public drug claims but a large proportion of spending. Biosimilars, lower cost alternatives to biologics, offer a potential solution to the rising spending on biologics. From March 2023 to January 2024, the Ontario Ministry of Health required public drug program beneficiaries on ...
Anita Iacono, Martin K. H. Ho, Joanna Yang, Tonya Campbell, William Wynne, Dana Shearer, Lene Andersen, Eric Majer, Shaleesa Ledlie, Mina Tadrous, Tara Gomes   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Counterfactual Groups to Assess Vaccine or Treatment Efficacy in HIV Prevention Trials in High-Risk Populations in Uganda

Vaccines
Background: Assessment of efficacy in HIV prevention trials remains a challenge in the era of widespread use of active controls. We investigated use of counterfactual groups to assess treatment efficacy.
Andrew Abaasa, Yunia Mayanja, Zacchaeus Anywaine, Sylvia Kusemererwa, Eugene Ruzagira, Pontiano Kaleebu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Occupational class and working beyond the retirement age: a cohort study

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2017
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine occupational class differences in working more than six months beyond the mandatory retirement age and factors that may contribute to these differences.
Marianna Virtanen, Tuula Oksanen, Jaana Pentti, Jenni Ervasti, Jenny Head, Sari Stenholm, Jussi Vahtera, Mika Kivimäki   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source