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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
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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Achieving Immanent Organizational Ethics: Managing Paradoxical Tensions in Packaging
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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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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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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ABSTRACT While many firms struggle to monetize circular economy (CE) strategies due to high costs and capability gaps, understanding the specific capabilities required to effectively implement these strategies remains a critical challenge. Addressing this gap, this study explores how firms develop and institutionalize such capabilities to achieve both ...
Ryosuke Sugie +2 more
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Circular Transitions in Healthcare Waste Management in Vietnam: An Institutional Perspective
ABSTRACTHealthcare waste management (HCWM) is a growing environmental and public health concern. This study explores how the institutional pressures that shape HCWM practices evolve toward circularity through coercive, normative, and mimetic isomorphisms and how these mechanisms influence organisational behaviour in Vietnam, a complex, highly regulated
V. Tuomala +7 more
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Rural first-mile pickup and last-mile delivery: A bus-assisted heterogeneous-drone model. [PDF]
Jin S, Wang L, Gong Y, Hu J.
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Business Strategy and Corporate Waste Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Board Gender Diversity
ABSTRACT Firm‐level drivers of corporate waste remain underresearched relative to other sustainability topics, such as carbon emissions and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure. Moreover, the role of female directors on corporate boards in this realm is also underexplored.
Ya Luo +3 more
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Models, systems, networks in economics, engineering, nature and society
Background. A study of the directions of transformation of logistics processes associated with the development of e-commerce and changes in consumer habits made it possible to determine that logistics at the last mile stage is one of the most important ...
S.V. Zinchenko
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