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What Constitutes an Attractive Product‐as‐a‐Service Offer? Examining Consumer Preferences for (Circular) Business Patterns

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Little is known about consumer preferences for combinations of circular business model patterns, despite their potential to benefit the design of product services. This study examines consumer preferences for product‐as‐a‐service offers, combined with circular product attributes, across Sweden and the Netherlands.
Steven Sarasini   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mercenaries in 14th-century Europe:Crack troops or 'useless and dangerous'? [PDF]

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During the Middle Ages, political units adopted two approaches to the use of mercenaries. Political authorities in Italian cities commonly contracted entire military campaigns to mercenary companies. In contrast, European monarchies like France recruited
Casiraghi, Matteo C.M.; id_orcid
core   +1 more source

Advancing Transformative Learning in Sustainability Management Education: A Systematic Review and Integrative Model

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reversing dominant unsustainable business practices requires a fundamental shift in how business practitioners perceive and enact sustainability. Management education is crucial for preparing prospective business professionals to lead this change, yet traditional curricula often perpetuate unsustainable paradigms.
Justo Alberto Ramírez‐Franco   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The News on “the Germans” (οἱ Νεμίτζοι) in Byzantine Narrative Essays of 10-12th Centuries

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2015
The article is a review of the news of the Byzantine narrative sources of the 10-12th centuries, in which an ethnonym “the Germans” is mentioned. The use of this term is extremely rare in Byzantine historiography of the eleventh and twelfth centuries ...
Maksim Igorevich Drobyshev
doaj   +1 more source

Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies [PDF]

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Between 1848 and 1914, around 5,800 Swiss Mercenaries enlisted in the Dutch Colonial Army (KNIL) to fight in the Dutch East Indies, now modern-day Indonesia.
Krauer, Philipp
core   +1 more source

Towards Strong Sustainability: Exploring Reconfigurations of Sufficiency‐Oriented and Regenerative Business Models

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite increasing adoption of sustainable business models, environmental decline and social disparities continue to accelerate. Strong sustainable business models offer an alternative by prioritizing ecological limits and systemic change. Drawing on an integrative literature review and business model modularization, this study examines how ...
Maike Gossen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The unrepresentative democracy

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 1997
Favourable public opinion egged the Papua New Guinea military on and forced Sir Julius Chan's hand over the resignation demand. Military commander Jerry Singirok struck a popular chord when he accused the PNG government of corruption in spite of the fact
Alan Robson
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Mercenaries

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The birth of the Greek mercenary can principally be ascribed to the economic crisis following the Peloponnesian War. Many Greeks decided to obtain a salary by enlisting under the banner of those who were able to pay them: the king and the satraps of the ...
Franca Landucci
core   +1 more source

Mercenaries reloaded? Applicability of the Notion of ‘Mercenaries’ in Relation to Private Military Companies and their Employees

open access: yes, 2013
The purpose of this study is to present the notion of mercenaries laid down in literature and in international law, as its applicability to private military companies and their employees so. The first chapter examines the use of the notion of mercenaries
Kálmán, János, János Kálmán
core   +1 more source

The Adoption of Sufficiency Practices in Sustainability‐Oriented Businesses: A Mixed‐Methods Study of Enablers, Challenges, and Benefits

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sufficiency is increasingly seen as a necessary complement to efficiency and circularity strategies to help prevent the transgression of planetary boundaries. However, empirical evidence on their broader relevance in business remains limited.
Maike Gossen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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