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Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time Over Five Decades [PDF]
In this paper, we use five decades of time-use surveys to document trends in the allocation of time. We find that a dramatic increase in leisure time lies behind the relatively stable number of market hours worked (per working-age adult) between 1965 and
Erik Hurst, Mark Aguiar
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Advancing Theory and Practice Concerning CO2e Emissions: A Time‐Based Tool for Organisations
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although organisations are increasingly scrutinised on their CO2e emissions, economic growth is frequently encouraged. Eco‐efficiency–based initiatives—‘doing more with less’—could be a solution. The problem is that many organisations (e.g., smaller enterprises without access to specialist knowledge) have difficulties in gauging the impact of ...
Andrea Stevenson Thorpe, Frank Figge
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Conference Proceedings of the Academy for Design Innovation Management, 2019 Understanding your user's daily life and interests is essential in providing insights that can be leveraged to define new design opportunities. However, when designing for older adults, this can be challenging because, users may find it complicated to express themselves; designers may have difficulties to take their perspective and empathize with them.
den Haan - Wintermans, Marjolein +2 more
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Cadernos de Geografia, 2019 Leisure is currently seen as a social value of reference. Perceived and valued as a way of rest, but simultaneously of fun, development and personal formation, leisure affects a significant part of our free time and our free will.
Luís Ávila Silveira, Norberto Santos
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Do Sustainability Committees Mitigate or Exacerbate ESG Decoupling?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of sustainability committees (SCs) on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) decoupling in US publicly listed firms. In particular, it examines their influence on overall and dimension‐specific (E, S, G) ESG decoupling and distinguishes their effects on internal versus external ESG actions.
Weite Qiu +4 more
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Library time: in pursuit of liberatory leisure
Information Research: An International Electronic JournalIntroduction. Our contemporary perception and experience of free time and leisure has been deleteriously degraded by the work-leisure binary. However, the public library’s leisure mode affords a distinct experience of time to its public that has the ...
Jeremy Keen Abbott
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The relationship between leisure, income, and happiness: Comparing the labor-leisure trade-off and leisure satisfaction theory [PDF]
Ekonomija: teorija i praksaThis study compares two competing theories that explain the relationship among income, leisure, and happiness: the labor-leisure trade-off from microeconomics, which predicts a negative correlation between income and leisure time, and the leisure ...
Ichsan Fadilah Muhamad
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Identifying the Third Agers: An Analysis of British Retirees' Leisure Pursuits [PDF]
Despite the recent theoretical focus on the emergence of the Third Age as a period of fulfilment and an ongoing engagement with an active leisure lifestyle, there is a dearth of quantitative studies on how older people spend their time.
Stella Chatzitheochari, Sara Arber
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Corporate environmental communication has become an essential aspect of modern business practices, as stakeholders increasingly demand transparency and accountability regarding sustainability efforts. Within this context, we examine whether firms use environmental communication on X/Twitter to offset weaker relative environmental performance ...
Ivan Russo +3 more
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Nowoczesne Systemy Zarządzania, 2017 Leisure time is an important element of human lifestyle which is reflected in people worldviews, aims, life ambitions and aspirations, based on their behaviours and market activities. Nowadays, leisure time is a highly va I ued resource. lt is a value in
Alicja KRZEPICKA, Jolanta TARAPATA
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