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Sustainability Orientation and Entrepreneurial Performance in Resource‐Constrained Contexts
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how sustainability orientation shapes entrepreneurial performance in bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (BoP) markets by theorizing responsible entrepreneurship as a central mechanism and BoP orientation as a contextual contingency. Using survey data from 283 small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana, we integrate perspectives
George Obeng Dankwah +5 more
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Crime and the Labor Market [PDF]
Much work on crime has focussed on the effect of criminal sanctions on crime, ignoring (except as a control variable) the effect of labor market conditions on crime.
Richard B. Freeman
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Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid growing global attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG), this study examines the misalignment between ESG disclosures and actual practices—termed ‘lip service’—using data from Chinese firms from 2006 to 2022, constructing an index to quantify it.
Jia Xu, Mingwei Liu, Helen X. H. Bao
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DISEQUILIBRIUM MACROECONOMICS: AN EPISODE IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF MODERN MACROECONOMICS [PDF]
The paper investigates the rise and fall of the disequilibrium approach in macroeconomics between the mid 1960s and the late 1970s. During that period macroeconomists became attracted to the interpretation of unemployment phenomena based on the notion ...
Mauro Boianovsky, Roger Backhouse
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Waste management remains a critical grand challenge in African countries. While entrepreneurship has been a viable strategy for addressing this challenge, it is fraught with constraints. This study investigates the strategies orchestrated by entrepreneurs to navigate adversity in Waste management and ensure the social and economic viability of
Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong +3 more
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Disability Grant and Individual Labour Force Participation: The Case of South Africa
, 2012 Despite the explosive growth in the number of people receiving disability benefits in South Africa, very little is known about the labour supply effects of the disability grant (DG).
Mutasa, George
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, 2015 Background: In the United States, an estimated 1.5 million people are diagnosed annually with some type of cancer (American Cancer Society, 2011). Work is an important stabilizing factor for cancer survivors (Arnold, 1999).
Kathleen M. Murphy +7 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The emerging concept of Hubs for Circularity (H4Cs) presents an opportunity to create collaborative, self‐sustaining regional industrial ecosystems that drive circular economy transitions at scale. However, the operationalisation of H4Cs faces financial, organisational and data‐driven challenges.
Aditya Tripathi +3 more
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Benchmarking the effectiveness of NDYP: A review of European and US literature on the microeconomic effects of labour market programmes for young people [PDF]
The review reported here was commissioned in 2000 by the National Audit Office as part of its evaluation of the New Deal for Young People (NDYP). Its purpose was to compare the economic impact of NDYP with those of labour market programmes elsewhere, to ...
Michael White and Genevieve Knight
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Advancing Theory and Practice Concerning CO2e Emissions: A Time‐Based Tool for Organisations
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although organisations are increasingly scrutinised on their CO2e emissions, economic growth is frequently encouraged. Eco‐efficiency–based initiatives—‘doing more with less’—could be a solution. The problem is that many organisations (e.g., smaller enterprises without access to specialist knowledge) have difficulties in gauging the impact of ...
Andrea Stevenson Thorpe, Frank Figge
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