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SIMFIRMS - SIMULATING THE SPATIAL DEMOGRAPHY OF FIRMS, WITH AN APPLICATION IN THE NETHERLANDS [PDF]

Recently, there is an increasing demand in spatial planning for models based on the demographic concepts of birth and death of firms. This paper describes the structure of a spatial demographic simulation model of firms, and its application within the ...
-DISCUSSANT: Max Keilbach, Leo van Wissen   +1 more
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Harmonizing Social Impact Assessment in the Bioeconomy: A Cross‐Regional Fuzzy‐Delphi Approach

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The bioeconomy transition risks underrepresenting social sustainability, while existing Social Life Cycle Assessment (S‐LCA) applications remain insufficient for comparison and decision support due to heterogeneous and non‐standardized selection of social impact categories. This study proposes a cross‐regional baseline set of impact categories
Julia Lessa Feitosa Virgolino, Claudia Coutinho‐Nóbrega, Nicholas M. Holden   +2 more
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Restructuring and hospital care: Sub-national trends, differentials, and their impacts; New Zealand from 1981 [PDF]

, 2009
An analysis of the "nation's health" is the central concern of this study. Its genesis was a detailed, technical, time-series research on regional and ethnic differentials in health in New Zealand.
Jackson, Gary, Sceats, Janet E., Cooper, Jenine, Cheung, Jit, Dharmalingam, Arunachalam, Coombs, Ngaire, Pool, Ian, Katzenellenbogen, Judith M., Baxendine, Sandra   +8 more
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Who Governs Giving?: Executive Educational Backgrounds and the Adoption of Employee‐Led Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Matching‐gift programs institutionalize employee‐led CSR by amplifying employees' voluntary donations. Yet we know relatively little about what promotes the adoption of these decentralized forms of corporate social engagement. Drawing on upper echelons theory, this study argues that executives with STEM educational backgrounds tend to favor ...
Jungwon Min
wiley   +1 more source

Demographic change and regional competitiveness: The effects of immigration and ageing [PDF]

, 2007
The demographic profile of a region is usually seen as a slowly changing background phenomenon in the analysis of regional competitiveness and regional growth. However, regional demographic change can have a significant impact on regional competitiveness
Poot, Jacques
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Environment Friendly Sustainable End‐Of‐Life Solutions for Plastic Components in Indian Automotive Industries

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Growing concerns about the environmental and social consequences of plastics around the world, manufacturing industries are associated with business are focusing on sustainable end‐of‐life options‐based solutions which aim at increasing the product life cycle.
Sivakumar Kirupanandan, Deepak Mathivathanan, Jayakrishna Kandasamy, Michele Mosca   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Explaining the structure of inter-organizational networks using exponential random graph models: does proximity matter? [PDF]

A key question raised in recent years is which factors determine the structure of inter-organizational networks. While the focus has primarily been on different forms of proximity between organizations, which are determinants at the dyad level, recently ...
Tom Broekel, Matte Hartog
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Same neighbourhood ... different views? A confrontation of internal and external neighbourhood reputations [PDF]

, 2016
Residents and non-residents are likely to think differently about a neighbourhood's reputation. Relatively little is known about the similarities and differences between these internal and external types of neighbourhood reputation or the relationship ...
Van Ham, Maarten, Bolt, Gideon, Permentier, Matthieu   +2 more
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Mind the Gaps! Legitimacy and Expectation Misalignments in Sustainability Disclosure: Case Evidence From a Public Forestry Sector Organization

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability disclosure by public sector organizations remains under‐examined, particularly in the forestry and natural resources sector, where organizations combine strong public accountability obligations with operations in environmentally sensitive ecosystems.
Dimitra Panori, Konstantinos G. Papaspyropoulos   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stochastic equilibrium models for generation capacity expansion [PDF]

Capacity expansion models in the power sector were among the first applications of operations research to the industry. The models lost some of their appeal at the inception of restructuring even though they still offer a lot of possibilities and are in ...
EHRENMANN, Andreas, SMEERS, Yves
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