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Connecting Thoughts and Actions: A Managerial Process Model on Circular Business Model Innovation
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Addressing environmental grand challenges such as resource scarcity requires circular business model innovation (CBMI) that enables firms to efficiently close and slow resource cycles through novel activity systems. Drawing on a grounded theory approach based on 59 in‐depth interviews with top managers from Swiss SMEs, we developed a process ...
Fabian Takacs, Karolin Frankenberger
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Lateral Load-Resisting System Using Mass Timber Panel for High-Rise Buildings
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2017 As global interest in using engineered wood products in tall buildings intensifies due to the “green” credential of wood, it is expected that more tall wood buildings will be designed and constructed in the coming years.
Zhiyong Chen, Ying-Hei Chui
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Contemporary and Novel Hold-Down Solutions for Mass Timber Shear Walls
Buildings, 2022 ‘Mass timber’ engineered wood products in general, and cross-laminated timber in particular, are gaining popularity in residential, non-residential, as well as mid- and high-rise structural applications. These applications include lateral force-resisting
Thomas Tannert, Cristiano Loss
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyses how large Swedish firms and financial institutions integrate climate change and biodiversity into their business strategies and governance structures. Using unique 2022 and 2023 survey data and logistic probability models, we examine how internal and external factors shape early responses to the EU Taxonomy and the CSRD ...
Fredrik N. G. Andersson +1 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The transition to circular construction suffers from uncertainties related to costs, market realities, supply, regulations and expertise using secondary materials in building projects. Uncertainties are large, and resolving them needs policy interventions.
Erkki‐Jussi Nylén, Tommi Halonen
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Buildings, 2021 Timber envelopes provide multiple benefits in reducing both operational and embodied energy environmental impacts in construction. However, when poorly designed, they may incur in high risk of mould growth, affecting both building performance and ...
Arianna Brambilla, Eugenia Gasparri
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Fringe Timber: Informing Regional Mass Timber Urban Environments with Biodiverse Forests
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2022 Abstract Trees present a vast array of performance in density, growth speed, height, fibre strength, and rates of carbon absorption. This paper explores how biodiverse mass timber is a way to support forest health and improve the health conditions of the most vulnerable—those who have experienced the pollution of mineral-based materials ...
L Wikstrom, C Z Yu
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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li +3 more
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Applied SciencesAn increased interest in decreasing the environmental impact of the construction sector and in vertical urbanization has renewed attention to timber as a primary structural material in multi-story buildings. This study investigated whether an existing 10-
Alireza Bahrami +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The valorization of construction and demolition timber is essential to advancing circular economy objectives but remains constrained by fragmented organizational, network, and institutional practices. For firms in the construction sector, this represents a critical strategic adaptation challenge.
Reeko Watanabe +6 more
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