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Experimental Designs for Optimizing Last-Mile Delivery [PDF]
Companies like Amazon and UPS are heavily invested in last-mile delivery problems. Optimizing last-delivery operations not only creates tremendous cost savings for these companies but also generate broader societal and environmental benefits in terms of ...
Rios, Nicholas, Xu, Jie
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Background: literature on last mile logistic electrification has primarily focused either on the stakeholder interactions defining urban rules and policies for urban freight or on the technical aspects of the logistic EVs.
Peter Meyer, Alejandro Sanz
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Length of the Last Mile: Delays and Hurdles in NREGA Wage Payments
, 2020 Delaysinwage payments are one of the most pressing issuesfaced byworkers. Various governments have paid much attention in the last decade on the technological aspects of the digital payments architecture through the paradigm of Direct Benefits Transfer
Narayanan, Rajendran +1 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, environmental concerns have reached critical levels, emphasizing e‐waste management as essential to mitigating resource depletion. However, existing literature lacks frameworks identifying the antecedents of a circular economy.
Pedro Senna +4 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Food waste and loss (FWL) remains a critical challenge across food supply chains (SCs) globally, with approximately one‐third of all food produced for human consumption discarded or lost each year. This study systematically reviews how supply chain innovation (SCI) can mitigate FWL.
Ilias Vlachos
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Achieving Immanent Organizational Ethics: Managing Paradoxical Tensions in Packaging
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Firms face strategic tensions in packaging materials through their conflicting but complementary social, environmental and economic goals in achieving sustainability. Reducing and repurposing plastics, glass, paper and cardboard in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture is proving a challenge.
Sitong Michelle Chen, Ralph J. Bathurst
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Transformative change is required to address persistent and systemic drivers of biodiversity loss. There is an urgent need for innovative solutions that tackle root causes in place‐specific contexts. Evidence indicates that small, innovative, purpose‐driven businesses can serve as vehicles for developing place‐based solutions.
Shova Thapa Karki, Bradley D. Parrish
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Industrial symbiosis (IS) represents a key strategy for industrial decarbonisation (ID) by converting one industry's waste into valuable inputs for another, reducing emissions and resource extraction. Scientific studies have explored the concept, implementation approaches and theoretical foundations of IS.
Marzieh Dehghan Niri +2 more
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Rural first-mile pickup and last-mile delivery: A bus-assisted heterogeneous-drone model. [PDF]
PLoS OneJin S, Wang L, Gong Y, Hu J.
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