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Impact Measuring in Sustainable Ventures: A Process Perspective

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Impact measurement is crucial for sustainable ventures to quantify their contribution to sustainable development. Although research has highly focused on impact measurement as a static activity, we conduct a qualitative study to explore how impact measuring as a process unfolds over time.
Jan Moellmann, Esther Salvi, Frank‐Martin Belz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Mobile Money Adoption Increase Informal Business Performance in Zambia? [PDF]

J Knowl Econ, 2023
Hassan R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Digital Transformation and Informal Innovation in Africa: Reframing STI Policy for Inclusive Circular Economy Transitions

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid increasing environmental and economic pressures, Africa's transition to a circular economy (CE) presents a vital pathway to inclusive, low‐carbon development. Yet, how digital transformation, informal innovation, and science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy readiness shape CE outcomes remains underexplored.
Emmanuel K. Manu, Isaiah Nketiah, Simplice A. Asongu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk and Reciprocity Over the Mobile Phone Network: Evidence from Rwanda [PDF]

A large literature describes how local risk sharing networks can help individuals smooth consumption in the face of idiosyncratic economic shocks.
Joshua Blumenstock, Marcel Fafchamps, Nathan Eagle   +2 more
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The Degradation of Access‐Based Business Models: Customer Misbehavior and Shared Mobility

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Access‐based services are considered one of the strategies to embed sustainability in business models. Yet, because the evolution of these business models has been overlooked, we do not know whether their promise to create triple value is sustained.
Andres Camacho, Carmen Valor
wiley   +1 more source

Clarence Blay: 'Ghana has 140,000 mobile money agents versus 1,300 bank branches' [PDF]

, 2017
The most famous mobile payments system in Africa, MPesa, allows users to make payments by sending text messages from simple mobile phones, not necessarily smart ones.
Vieira, Helena
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Corporate Decarbonization via Technology and Management

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study provides a comprehensive overview of key findings on decarbonization, advanced technologies, and management strategies, highlighting emerging themes shaping the field. Advanced technologies enhance carbon reduction through efficiency, real‐time monitoring, and optimizing resource optimization.
Heidy Montero‐Teran, Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Olli Kuivalainen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interoperability Between Mobile Money Agents and Choice of Network Operators: The Case of Tanzania. [PDF]

Rev Netw Econ, 2023
Grzybowski L, Lindlacher V, Mothobi O.
europepmc   +1 more source

Facilitating Cross-Border Mobile Banking in Southern Africa [PDF]

The use of mobile banking is an increasingly important component of national and regional economic development in Southern Africa. Mobile banking can help bring the large unbanked population into the formal financial sector, and can facilitate cross ...
Maimbo, Samuel, Saranga, Tania, Strychacz, Nicholas   +2 more
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Mobile money, Entrepreneurship, and Informality

Eastern Economic Journal
Abstract This paper investigates the impact of mobile money access on informal businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa. While mobile money can improve business performance and facilitate transactions, it may also enable labor informality. I examine this trade-off by studying solo entrepreneurs and small business owners in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and
openaire   +1 more source