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Advancing Sustainable Development in Manufacturing: A Strategic Framework for Overcoming Green–Lean Implementation Barriers

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Manufacturing's transition to sustainable development depends on integrating green with lean under credible environmental policy and stakeholder engagement. Although benefits are well established, the literature underspecifies implementation barriers and their prioritisation. This study identifies, structures, and prioritises barriers to green–
Jose Arturo Garza‐Reyes   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

English non-finite participial clauses as seen through their Czech counterparts

open access: yesNJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2015
Based on the data from a parallel English-Czech corpus, the present study offers an analysis of 600 English V-ing participial clauses through their Czech translation correspondences, divisible into less and more explicit types.
Markéta Malá, Pavlína   Šaldová
doaj   +1 more source

On an alternative to long A´-movement in German and Dutch [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper provides an analysis of an alternative strategy to A´-movement in both German and Dutch where the extracted constituent is preceded by a preposition and a coreferential pronoun appears in the extraction site. The construction has properties of
Salzmann, Martin
core   +1 more source

A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Comparability Between Corporate Biodiversity Impact Accounting Tools

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Integrating corporate biodiversity impacts into investment decisions can direct investments toward nature‐positive firms, creating a market signal. The strength of this signal is a function of how closely investments align. This alignment depends on the comparability (the degree of similarity and difference) of tools used to account for ...
Benjamin Stimpson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why is German dependency parsing more reliable than constituent parsing? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In recent years, research in parsing has extended in several new directions. One of these directions is concerned with parsing languages other than English.
Kübler, Sandra, Prokic, Jelena
core   +2 more sources

Driver Hamiltonians for constrained optimization in quantum annealing

open access: yes, 2016
One of the current major challenges surrounding the use of quantum annealers for solving practical optimization problems is their inability to encode even moderately sized problems---the main reason for this being the rigid layout of their quantum bits ...
Hen, Itay, Sarandy, Marcelo S.
core   +1 more source

Sequencing Finance for Climate Resilience: Instruments, Institutions and Hong Kong's Role in Mobilising Private Capital in Southeast Asia

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates innovative financing strategies to mobilise private capital for climate adaptation, emphasising Hong Kong's role in advancing efforts across Southeast Asia. Using expert interviews and case studies, it addresses two key questions: which financial instruments can strengthen public–private collaboration, and what best ...
Laurence L. Delina   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Harmony, Head Proximity, and the Near Parallels between Nominal and Clausal Linkers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper puts forward a notion of harmonic word order that leads to a new generalisation over the presence or absence of disharmony: specific functional heads must cross-linguistically obey this notion of harmony absolutely, while for other categories ...
Philip, J
core  

Circular Economy Pathways for Airport Climate Change Mitigation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Airport operators face growing climate‐change pressures; the circular economy offers pathways to reduce impacts and recover resources. We examine how airport operators apply the circular economy in practice. We use an exploratory qualitative multicase design based on practitioner‐generated documents (e.g., press releases and sustainability ...
Michele Oppioli   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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