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A Business Framework for Product Take‐Back—A Structured Multiple‐Case Analysis
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The potential of take‐back systems remains largely unrealized as initiatives have proven difficult to implement in practice. The question is why we do not see more take‐back systems given the substantial environmental benefits. We try to understand the challenges and stumbling blocks in setting up take‐back from a business perspective.
Rasmus Jørgensen, Torben Pedersen
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Corporate Decarbonization via Technology and Management
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study provides a comprehensive overview of key findings on decarbonization, advanced technologies, and management strategies, highlighting emerging themes shaping the field. Advanced technologies enhance carbon reduction through efficiency, real‐time monitoring, and optimizing resource optimization.
Heidy Montero‐Teran +2 more
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Blockchain Technology and the Circular Economy Transition: Associations With Company Performance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The adoption of circular economy (CE) practices in the private sector has received increasing academic and managerial attention, although the implementation of such practices continues to face significant barriers. Among Industry 4.0 technologies, blockchain has been identified as a potential factor associated with the CE transition.
Josep Llach +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Energy is a fundamental driver of economic growth, shaping productivity, industrialization, and long‐term economic resilience. In sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), where energy access remains uneven and infrastructure is underdeveloped, understanding sector‐specific energy demand is essential for designing sustainable energy strategies.
Michael Appiah +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Implementing digital technologies is touted as the next big step for the firms aiming to improve sustainability in their supply chains. These technologies are often credited with the potential to improve transparency and achieve sustainability.
Amna Farrukh, Aqeel Ahmed, Sadaat Yawar
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Conceptualising Supply Chain Resilience Within Social Enterprises
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.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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Eastern African Journal of Humanities and Social SciencesDecentralisation by devolution has emerged as a strategic approach in developing countries to enhance public healthcare service delivery through increased local responsiveness and community participation.
Adam Matiko Charles +2 more
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Is fiscal decentralisation good for growth? [PDF]
, 2006 The relationship between fiscal decentralisation and economic growth is an important but highly controversial issue. Increased revenue autonomy for the Scottish Parliament is seen by many as a key tool to improve the performance of the Scottish economy – see for example, Hallwood and MacDonald (2006) and Steel (2006).
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Complex Firms, Controversial Outcomes: Global Evidence on ESG Failures and Remedies
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine whether business complexity increases firms' exposure to negative environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes, specifically ESG controversies, using a global panel of firms from 37 countries over the period 2002–2021.
Abongeh A. Tunyi +3 more
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DIFFERENT APPROACHES AND MEASURES OF FISCAL DECENTRALISATION
Proceedings of the 49th International Academic Conference, Dubrovnik, 2019 Once the phenomenon of fiscal decentralisation was appropriately operationalised and measured, it has become evident that not many countries had absolutely self-financing sub-national governments. The evidence shows that, in many developed countries, fiscal decentralisation has occurred almost exclusively through devolution of expenditure activities ...
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