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Sustainability Transitions in SMEs: Investigating Net‐Zero Adoption, Carbon Footprint Reduction, and Performance Outcomes

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research empirically validates an integrated framework that explains net‐zero‐emission adoption among Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Extending the Technological‐Organizational‐Environmental (TOE) framework with the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) perspective, the research explains how internal capabilities
Alanood Alremeithi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Globalization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
[Excerpt] While the chapters in the previous section examined employment relations in different national contexts, in this chapter we focus on employment relations in the international or global context.
Kuruvilla, Sarosh, Lakhani, Tashlin
core   +2 more sources

A Review of Grain Boundaries: Formation Mechanism, Synthesis Strategy, and Application in Electrocatalysis

open access: yesEcoEnergy, EarlyView.
An overview of grain boundary engineering in the field of electrocatalysis. ABSTRACT Key electrocatalytic reactions such as HER, OER, ORR, CO2RR, and NRR offer promising routes for storing renewable energy as chemical fuels. However, their widespread application is constrained due to the lack of highly active and stable catalysts. Grain boundaries (GBs)
Jingyu Gao   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Partnership in practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This paper examines human resource management practices adopted in a group of eight case study firms and their tendencies towards versus away from partnership.
Hudson, M.   +2 more
core  

From Contingency Management to Transformative Climate Risk Adaptation? Analysis of Private Sector Agency in Navigating Complex Climate Risk Realities

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing complexity and severity of cross‐border climate risks characterised by non‐linear impact chains and deep uncertainty questions the capacity of environmental governance to tackle these problems effectively and in a just manner. To increase the efficiency of climate action, the private sector has been called upon to leverage market ...
Päivi Tikkakoski, Sirkku Juhola
wiley   +1 more source

A Critical History of Industrial Sociology: From «Blue and White Collar Workers» to «Knowmads & Freeriders»

open access: yesMiscelánea Comillas, 2020
This is a critical historical study of the Industrial Sociology of work and organizations, which offers an evolution and evaluation of labour relations in their transition from a welfare economy to a digital one.
Antonio Sánchez-Bayón
doaj  

The Celtic Tiger in historical and international perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
When Economic Development was published in 1958 there was good reason to worry both about Ireland's economic performance and its economic prospects. While most western European countries were enjoying rapid economic growth Ireland was falling well behind
Crafts, N. F. R.
core  

The discourse of globalisation and the logic of no alternative : rendering the contingent necessary in the political economy of New Labour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Although convincingly discredited academically, a crude 'business school' globalisation thesis of a single world market, with its attendant political 'logic of no alternative', continues to dominate the discourse of globalisation adopted by the British ...
Hay, Colin, Watson, Matthew
core   +1 more source

Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how municipal legislators frame climate mitigation and how these framings shift responsibility, narrow the perceived scope of municipal authority, and reduce the urgency or feasibility of local action. We analyzed 31 interviews with city councilors serving on Permanent Environmental Committees across municipalities in ...
Tainá Yumi Patriani
wiley   +1 more source

YOUTH LABOUR MARKET IN REPUBLIC OF BELARUS: PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND PRACTICE

open access: yesНаука и техника, 2010
The paper considers theoretical and practical problems of formation and regulation of youth labour market inBelarus. Specific and characteristic features of the labour market segment and main problems of young people in the labour market are given in the
A. K. Dubovik
doaj  

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