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Digital Transformation for Sustainable Development of SMEs: A Systematic Review of ‘How We Know,’ ‘What We Know’ and Research Agenda

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) are expected to contribute more significantly to the sustainability agenda. Digital transformation (DT) has the potential to enable SMEs to fulfil their sustainable development goals. However, SMEs encounter unique challenges in leveraging DT for sustainability due to their size, limited resources and
Phuc G. Le   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discursive Governance and Development Goals: A Performative Theory of Corporate Purpose in Sustainability Discourse

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study theorises and empirically tests performative purpose alignment theory (PPAT), which conceptualises corporate purpose as a performative artefact materialised through discursive and multimodal signals. To operationalise this, we introduced the SDG–Purpose Alignment Index (SPAI), a computational construct that quantifies the thematic ...
Augustine Okeke, Ifeanyi Ugbebor
wiley   +1 more source

Talking the Walk: ESG Discourse as Strategic Dynamic Capability

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conventional wisdom suggests that firms must “walk the talk” on sustainability. In turbulent institutional environments, however, talking increasingly becomes part of the walk, as organizations use sustainability discourse to construct and maintain legitimacy.
Floriana Luisi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer Adoption of Internet of Things

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 673-693, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The Internet of Things (IoT), a pivotal technology in enhancing user connectivity, faces a paradox: its widespread potential yet limited consumer adoption. This study addresses this dichotomy by synthesizing a large‐scale meta‐analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) and hierarchical linear meta‐analysis (HiLMA) of 2736 effect sizes from ...
Wagner Junior Ladeira   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Techniques de consciences du corps énergétiques et poétiques

open access: yesAppareil
This paper investigates the metaphor used in some of practices observed at the Shanghai Qigong medical research Institute. The analogic images mentioned during the teaching-learning guide the perceptions towards aesthetics space of the body animate with ...
Marceau Chenault
doaj   +1 more source

A metaphor corpus in business press headlines [PDF]

open access: yesIbérica, 2008
In linguistics a corpus typically involves a finite body of texts which are considered to be representative of a particular variety of language at a specific time (McEnery & Wilson, 2001).
Honesto Herrera Soler
doaj  

From embodied metaphors to metaphoric gestures. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Humans turn abstract referents and discourse structuresinto gesture using metaphors. The semantic relation be-tween abstract communicative intentions and their phys-ical realization in gesture is a question that has not beenfully addressed. Our hypothesis is that a limited set ofprimary metaphors and image schemas underlies a widerange of gestures. Our
Lhommet, Margot, Marsella, Stacy
openaire   +1 more source

Energy Landscapes in Chemical Reactions and Transport

open access: yesChemPhysChem, Volume 26, Issue 6, March 15, 2025.
Kinetics/dynamics of chemical reactivity and transport of chemical species in a solid are both determined by the energy landscape in which they take place. Discussing common grounds but also distinct differences may help in advancing the understanding in both fields.
Karl‐Michael Weitzel
wiley   +1 more source

Sensemaking and CSR Character in Multinational Corporations: A Comparative Study of Headquarters and Subsidiary Practices in the UAE

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship assumes that organizational consistency signals effectiveness, there remains a knowledge gap about how MNCs navigate competing institutional logics between headquarters and subsidiaries. This study investigates how managerial sensemaking mediates the effects of institutional pressures on ...
Charles Antony Diab, Wendy Stubbs
wiley   +1 more source

Metaphor of Terrorism

open access: yesStudies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2002
Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 2 No. 1 (2002)
openaire   +2 more sources

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