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Canadian medical tourism companies that have exited the marketplace: Content analysis of websites used to market transnational medical travel

Globalization and Health, 2011
Background Medical tourism companies play an important role in promoting transnational medical travel for elective, out-of-pocket medical procedures. Though researchers are paying increasing attention to the global phenomenon of medical tourism, to date ...
Turner Leigh
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Guidelines for the Formation of the Value Proposition of Inbound Medical Tourism: The Case of Lithuania

Organizacijų Vadyba: Sisteminiai Tyrimai, 2023
In order to attract more medical tourists to Lithuania and to provide them with more value, it is necessary to update the current medical tourism value proposition presented in 2012.
Matulevičiūtė Ieva, Kyguolienė Asta
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Net‐Zero Transition and Its Impact on Firms' Energy Efficiency and Economic Growth Within the Framework of Sustainable Development Goals: A Systematic Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition to net zero (NZ) faces challenges such as uneven institutional readiness, fragmented policy frameworks and rising energy demands from population growth, economic expansion and artificial intelligence (AI). These obstacles are intensified by technological, financial and regulatory uncertainties that impede coordinated efforts ...
Mohamed Shrief, Jahira Debbarma, Lukman Akanbi, Duyen Chu   +3 more
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MEDICAL TOURISM INDUSTRY CHALLENGES IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION [PDF]

Strategii Manageriale, 2014
Medical tourism is not a new concept, even though there is still no international consensus on the name of this phenomenon that is manifesting itself for thousands of years. It is defined by moving patients in various countries to obtain medical care and
Carmen, IORDACHE, Iuliana, CIOCHINA
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Circular Transitions in Healthcare Waste Management in Vietnam: An Institutional Perspective

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
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, S. Schiffling, R. McClelland, S. K. Kok, D. T. Tran, P. Hoang, A. Nguyen, A. Ngo   +7 more
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Sustainability Assessment of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises: A Systematic Review and Hybrid Architecture for Credible, Salient, and Legitimate Knowledge Governance

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability assessment advances corporate social responsibility toward inclusive development. Widely recognized approaches prove inadequate for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), resulting in fragmented proliferation that hinders cumulative knowledge.
Luísa Couto Gonçalves de Souza, Laura Proença Guimarães, Maria Auxiliadora Drumond   +2 more
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Beyond the Badge: Do Sustainable Business Certifications Reflect Employees' Workplace Experiences? Evidence From Employee‐Reported Workplace Evaluations

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between sustainability certifications and employee satisfaction by conceptualizing certifications as external signals and internal organizational resources. Drawing on signaling theory and the resource‐based view (RBV), a purposively selected dataset of 172 certified firms and a comparison group of 20,026 ...
Malte Bau, Sumaya Islam, Michael Wunsch
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Estimating Illicit Stimulant Drug Consumption in Luxembourg Using Wastewater‐Based Epidemiology

Drug Testing and Analysis, EarlyView.
Wastewater‐based epidemiology provided nationwide estimates of illicit stimulant consumption in Luxembourg, revealing higher urban use, weekend increases in cocaine and MDMA, and cocaine as the dominant stimulant. The approach offers an objective complement to conventional drug surveillance for informing public health and policy.
Nadine Berndt, Luca Wiltgen, Nicolas Villani, Georges Dahm, Karin Roschel, Serge Schneider   +5 more
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Features requirement elicitation process for designing a chatbot application

IET Networks, EarlyView., 2022
This article seeks to assist the chatbot community by outlining the characteristics that a chatbot needs to possess and explaining how to create a chatbot for a bank. In order to determine which capabilities are most crucial to ending users, a study of a small sample of chatbot users was conducted.
Nurul Muizzah Johari, Puteri N. E. Nohuddin, Ahmad Hanif Ahmad Baharin, Noor Azuddin Yakob, Mohammad Javad Ebadi   +4 more
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A'mmomat and weshu processing as a mechanism of balancing gender power relations among the Kambaata community of Central Ethiopia

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that power in gender relations within the Kambaata people of central Ethiopia is expressed through relational, mutual, and complementary dynamics rather than domination or control. It critiques Western liberal feminist frameworks—especially those emphasizing rights, equality, and resistance—for their limitations in ...
Desta Lorenso
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