Navigating the Double Edge of Product‐Service Systems: User Behavior, Adoption, and Rebound Effects
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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Contract farming and its implications for input-supply, linkages between markets and farmers in Karnataka [PDF]
This study is focused on the economic analysis of contract farming with a comparison of income, access to technology and credit of contract and non-contract farmers. The advantages of contract farming for smallholders have also been evaluated.
Chandakavate, Pramod M. +4 more
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Conceptualising Supply Chain Resilience Within Social Enterprises
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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Reputation and Credit without Collateral in Africa’s Formal Banking [PDF]
The analysis of reputation as a contract enforcement instrument where legal institutions, especially commercial courts, fail to enforce commercial contracts has focused on informal credit markets. The literature centres on the argument that lenders or co-
Janvier D. Nkurunziza
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ABSTRACT The present study applied the diffusion of innovation theory to investigate the rate of diffusion of renewable energy sources used by Europe's top professional football stadiums and the relationship with carbon neutrality. A discrete diffusion model estimated the diffusion of renewable energy to saturation, and a multivariate logistic ...
Chad S. Seifried +2 more
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Corporate ownership as a means to solve adverse selection problems in a model of asymmetric information and credit rationing [PDF]
This paper analyzes an asymmetric information model where the financing needs of entrepreneurs are obtained from two sources. We show that adverse selection is only important if the credit constraint of banks is not too tight.
Gangopadhyay, Shubashis, Lensink, Robert
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between industrial robotics adoption and ecological capacity, measured by biocapacity, using panel data from 50 countries over the period 2000–2024. We investigate the transmission mechanisms, non‐linearities, spatial spillovers, and heterogeneity characterizing this relationship.
Brahim Bergougui +1 more
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Contracting innovations and the evolution of clearing and settlement methods at futures exchanges [PDF]
Defining futures contracts as substitutes for associated cash transactions enables a discussion of the evolution of controls over contract nonperformance risk. These controls are incorporated into exchange methods for clearing contracts.
James T. Moser
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Chain‐Level Business Model Patterns for the Green Logistics Transition
ABSTRACT Sustainability transitions in freight transport increasingly depend on coordinated changes across entire logistics networks, not just within individual firms. This study investigates how business‐model change unfolds across a multimodal European logistics chain engaged in reducing transport‐related emissions.
Marikka Heikkilä
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The role of contract farming in agricultural development in globalise world: an institutional economics analysis. [PDF]
In the wake up ubiquitous agrarian crisis reflected in decelerating growth and increasing farmer suicides this paper examines the institutional constraints faced by agricultural sector.
Swain, Braja Bandhu
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