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A Framework of Happiness Survey and Evaluation of Gross National Happiness [PDF]

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Happiness surveys based on self-report can generate unreliable data due to respondents’ imperfect retrospection, vulnerability to context, and arbitrariness in measuring happiness. To overcome these problems, this article proposes to incorporate a method
Haiou Zhou
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Consumer Resistance to Circular Fashion: A Systematic Literature Review of Consumer Barriers and Innovation Resistance in Circular Business Models

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition toward circular fashion is widely promoted as a pathway to sustainable development, yet consumer resistance continues to hinder the adoption of circular business models across resale, rental, repair, and remaking. Existing research identifies numerous consumer barriers, but insights remain fragmented, model‐specific, and largely
Sophie Rasfeld
wiley   +1 more source

The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness [PDF]

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By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that womenâs happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men.
Wolfers, Justin, Stevenson, Betsey
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Leading the Loop: Anchor‐Led Orchestration in Nascent Circular Ecosystems—A Qualitative Case Study

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition towards a circular economy necessitates coordinated, systemic change across value chains. Yet the role of anchor firms in initiating and orchestrating nascent circular ecosystems remains underexplored. Using an inductive, qualitative single‐case design, we analyse a German mid‐sized entrepreneurial firm, drawing on 21 interviews
Johann Felix Mader, Patrick Spieth
wiley   +1 more source

Religiosity as a determinant of happiness [PDF]

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We find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but not with ...
Gundlach, Erich, Opfinger, Matthias
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Reciprocity on the Edge of Distance Paradox: How Sustainability Motives and Hypocrisy Shape Consumer Responses to Nearshoring

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing interest in corporate relocation decisions and sustainability, the existing literature is limited in its consumer‐centric approach. Integrating social exchange theory and construal level theory, this research investigates how consumers perceive sustainability‐driven nearshoring motives (i.e., socio‐economic vs.
Cagla Dayangan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Breaking Patriarchal Traditions: The Power and Legacy of Princess Mkabayi in the Zulu Kingdom, South Africa

open access: yesJournal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
From the beginning of time women have had very specific roles in the society. The African society is one that is patriarchal and requires women to be subordinated and emancipated and is dominated by patriarchal ideologies.
Sekwenele Happiness Khoza
doaj   +1 more source

Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond "Basic Needs" [PDF]

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We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European ...
Rafael Di Tella, Robert MacCulloch
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Role of Emotions in Sustainable Consumption Behaviour: A Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The literature on emotions in sustainable consumption behaviour (SCB) is fragmented, making it difficult to envision the pathways to future sustainable consumption. As of now, scholars have made several attempts to understand sustainable consumption, but few have explicitly focussed on the role of emotions. Therefore, the current study aims to
Mohd Sadiq   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tasting Freedom: Happiness, religion and economic transition [PDF]

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Economic transition lowered happiness on average, but did not affect all equally. This paper uses Hungarian survey data to study the impact of religion and economic transition on happiness.
Orsolya Lelkes
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