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Administering an Islamic Public Value by a Non‐Muslim Agency: The UNHCR Refugee Zakat Fund
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The post‐Arab Spring conflicts generated large‐scale displacement across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), producing acute humanitarian needs among predominantly Muslim refugee populations. The United Nations High Commissioner to refugees responded by opening the Refugee Zakat Fund, to be used to mobilize the Islamic philanthropic ...
Abdulfatah Said Mohamed
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Forests play a pivotal role in sustainability transitions. This article explores how people's relationships with forests, particularly how they care for or take care of them, shape and reflect broader tendencies and tensions in forest utilization and governance.
Jana Rebecca Holz
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Botanic and heritage gardens as living laboratories in the age of the polycrisis
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Societal Impact Statement Cities face intertwined crises of climate, biodiversity loss and social disconnection. We show how botanic and heritage gardens can help address these challenges as living laboratories to generate place‐based evidence and public engagement.
Kevin Frediani
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Quality and Reliability Engineering International, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how Lean Six Sigma (LSS) currently functions in the U.S. textile and apparel industry after years of adoption and use. Moving beyond isolated project‐level evidence, this study investigates whether LSS has been implemented as an organizational capability and integrated into the corporate culture, adapted to textile‐specific
Alireza Vahedi Fakhr +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Illegal gold mining has emerged as a major sustainability threat in the Amazon, eroding Indigenous rights, forest integrity, and climate mitigation efforts. This study examines how international market incentives relate to the expansion of illegal mining and associated deforestation within the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (YIT) from 2008 to ...
Shirléia Lago Santos +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Grounded in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework, I examined sustainability discourse in the Hong Kong Legislative Council (LegCo) Hansards. Using LancsBox X, I employed collocational and concordance analyses to investigate a 15.7‐million‐word Hansard corpus.
Emmanuel Mensah Bonsu
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A New Social Life Cycle Assessment Framework: An AI‐Driven Optimization Approach and Application
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Social life cycle assessment (SLCA) has increasingly been acknowledged as a tool for assessing the societal impacts of services and products. However, the fragmented nature of current approaches makes it difficult to compare this concept and its practical applications.
Flavio Vassallo Mattos +3 more
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Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Research suggests that ventures benefit from framing to gain audience support, yet how they utilize framing when exogenous shocks redirect attention remains unclear. Drawing on a longitudinal multiple‐case study of six biotechnology ventures following the COVID‐19 pandemic, we show how ventures balance coherence and resonance ...
Niklas Dreymann, Indre Maurer
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Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Despite growing interest in platform transitions, limited research examines how firms navigate challenges of building platform businesses alongside existing products. Through a longitudinal case study of a financial services firm launching a platform, we develop a process model revealing how data bottlenecks shape platform ...
Jack Fraser +2 more
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Modern engineering faces a ‘complexity crisis’ characterized by interlinked, multidisciplinary ‘wicked problems’, particularly within the defence and aerospace sectors. Although systems thinking is recognized as a critical competency for navigating this environment, empirical quantitative frameworks for its measurement remain limited.
Shimon Fridkin, Sigal Kordova
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