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City Diplomacy as a Green Strategy? International Sister City Partnerships and Urban Decarbonization

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The establishment of international sister city partnerships (ISCPs) has expanded since the postwar era, developing from cultural exchanges into strategic diplomatic channels for sustainable development. While their socioeconomic benefits are well‐documented, their potential as instruments for global environmental governance and urban ...
Fubin Luo, Zimeng Kong, Xinyu Wang, Can Zhang, Yunzheng Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
wiley   +1 more source

Platform development in incumbent firms: The interplay of data and actor interests in adding platforms to existing businesses

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Despite growing interest in platform transitions, limited research examines how firms navigate challenges of building platform businesses alongside existing products. Through a longitudinal case study of a financial services firm launching a platform, we develop a process model revealing how data bottlenecks shape platform ...
Jack Fraser, Elizabeth J. Altman, Pinar Ozcan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diaspora-driven knowledge diplomacy: rethinking transnational education through the CIESDEMEX model in the Global South. [PDF]

Front Res Metr Anal
Romero León DA, Tapia Spinoso S, Díaz Oviedo HY.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Government as orchestrator: Ecosystem transformation at scale and speed

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Grand challenges are ecosystem challenges: success depends on aligning a multilateral set of public and private sector actors whose interdependent contributions determine whether a mission is achieved. This study examines how government can orchestrate ecosystem alignment by leveraging distinctive capabilities to deliver ...
Ron Adner
wiley   +1 more source

Public health diplomacy in an era of complexity, uncertainty, and unpredictability: perspectives from a YFG-ASPHER workshop. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Linares L, Chen-Xu J, Medialdea Carrera R, Pietersz D, Zavattaro F, Otok R, Barros H, Figueras J, Joshi A.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Emergent Innovation in Systemic Programme Design: Retrospective Reflections on the Development of a Student‐Centred Masters in Systems Thinking

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Our theory of education, based on a systemic understanding of the subjective and intersubjective construction of knowledge, is that students are motivated to study what is most meaningful to them. Meaningfulness is grounded in the students' prior experiences, which are highly diverse.
Wendy J. Gregory, Gerald Midgley
wiley   +1 more source

The Lithuanian Referendum on Extending the Working of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Station: The Rationality of Actors within (Un-)Changing Structures

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, 2012
Mažylis Liudas, Jurgelionytė Aušrinė
doaj   +1 more source

Science diplomacy in the Global South: a case study of Brazilian participation in the PLATO mission. [PDF]

Front Res Metr Anal
Dalla Vecchia Gueter D, Loss de Araujo F, Ramos Coelho A, de Marca França R, Cunha Parro V.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Decoding a Decade of Systems Change Guidance, 2014–2025: Building a Shared Framework for Collaboration

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems change is gaining momentum across sectors as a powerful way to tackle today's most complex social and environmental challenges. Over the past decade, philanthropic, government, finance, development, nonprofit and research groups have published a wide range of practical guides, each tailored to specific areas.
Emily F. Gates, Clara Shim, Nishat Akhi, Stephen Gyan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source