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Transforming Procurement: The Dynamic Capabilities and Microfoundations to Buy Circular
ABSTRACT Circular Procurement (CP) integrates Circular Economy (CE) principles into purchasing decisions to close material loops and retain value across product life cycles. Yet, its adoption remains limited due to persistent barriers within procurement processes.
Francesco Cafforio, Ilaria Giannoccaro
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Financial sector pro-cyclicality: lessons from the crisis [PDF]
We analyze the main forces affecting financial system pro-cyclicality (the fact that developments in the financial sector can amplify business cycle fluctuations). We first review some major structural developments in financial markets that may influence
Wanda Cornacchia +8 more
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Harnessing Generative AI for Sustainable Supply Chains: Lean, Circular and Green Perspectives
ABSTRACT Generative artificial intelligence is playing a significant role in the transformation of digital ecosystems by reinventing the processes of content generation, process automation, product innovation and customer experience. At the same time that these technologies are becoming more integrated into routine operations, the focus has shifted to ...
Ashutosh Singh +3 more
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Purpose. Development of a quantitative measure of the contribution of emergency scenarios to the overall uncertainty of the risk of man-made emergencies at fuel and energy facilities, based on the entropy of the system, the informational significance of ...
Romina M. Kretsu, Anatoliy V. Rybakov
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ABSTRACT The transition to a circular economy (CE) in the textile and clothing (TC) industry is frequently attributed to sustainability‐oriented innovation (SOI), yet empirical understanding of the systemic conditions under which SOI enables CE remains underdeveloped.
Krishnendu Saha +3 more
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Prime ministers & Civil Service reform 1960-74
PhDThis thesis anatomises the high watermark of belief in administrative and institutional remedies to the deeply-felt relative economic and absolute military decline of Britain in the years after the Second. World War.
Davis, Jon Malcolm
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ESG Performance, Debt Financing, and R&D Output: Evidence From the Healthcare Sector
ABSTRACT Amid growing calls for sustainability in the healthcare sector, this study examines how and under what conditions environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance influences research and development (R&D) output. Although existing studies suggest that ESG performance enhances R&D output, the financial mechanisms that enable or constrain
Sarmad Ali +2 more
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Emergency capitalism financial hubris, economic collapse and systemic manipulation
The age of crisis capitalism is characterized by two major socioeconomic trends: 1) the addiction to credit creation, whose main purpose is to inflate and prop up the financial markets; 2) the controlled demolition of the real economy and the modern ...
Vighi, Fabio
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ABSTRACT Despite growing research on explicating travelers' decision‐making processes regarding greener travel options, there remains potential for exploring nuances of different factors and mechanisms that may encourage higher green travel. Grounded in the propositions of the push–pull–mooring framework, our study attempts to explicate whether eco ...
Chuhong Wang +3 more
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-97).This thesis evaluates implementation of budget reform within the Department of Health and Social Services in Mpumalanga, and the extent to which this has led to implementation of policy objectives and ...
Vananda, Ntuthuzelo
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