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Profits, Image, and Sustainability in Plastic Waste Recycling Behavior

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Plastic waste is an environmental and public health concern. In the agricultural sector, plastic waste handling is largely unregulated. Using survey data from horticultural firms, we investigate a previously unexplored relationship between a firm's decision to voluntarily discard recyclable plastic containers and the firm's perception about ...
Yawotse Nouve, Wojciech J. Florkowski
wiley   +1 more source

Aproximación a un servicio de atención domiciliaria (SAD) municipal Approach to a local home care service

Gerokomos, 2006
Introducción: El envejecimiento progresivo de la población española y la importancia demográfica de las personas mayores se concreta en que 17 de cada 100 españoles tiene 65 años o más. El descenso de la tasa de mortalidad y aumento de la esperanza de vida hace que exista un crecimiento considerable de la dependencia, fragilidad y necesidad de cuidados
Esperanza Ballesteros Pérez, Pablo David Sánchez, Pilar Torres Egea, Montserrat Palma Ferrando   +3 more
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Orchestration Up Close: Sustainable Business Model Innovation Through the Experiences and Activity Patterns of Secondary Stakeholders

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While much research stresses the importance of stakeholder involvement and inter‐organizational collaboration in sustainable business model innovation, less is known about the dynamics and actor roles of these collaborative processes. This article investigates one particular role in the process: the orchestrator, a role taken by secondary ...
Leonie Schlüter
wiley   +1 more source

Executive summary, ORS 410.604, report to Interim Committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services investigating potential strategies to increase the workforce for home care workers

, 2015
This archived document is maintained by the Oregon State Library as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Title from PDF cover (viewed on November 16, 2015)."SDS 9768"

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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
wiley   +1 more source

Household Responses to Public Home Care Programs [PDF]

A choice-theoretic model of household decision-making with respect to care-giving time allocations and the use of publicly and privately financed home care services is proposed.
Peter C. Coyte, Mark Stabile
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Beyond a Technocentric Transition: A Diverse Economies Perspective for Social Justice in Circular Economy Business Models

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The circular economy, dominated by capitalocentric, technocentric, and eco‐modernist discourses, risks perpetuating systemic injustice because of its limited consideration of the social and of what is possible. In this article, we examine how social justice can be embedded into circular business models (CBMs)—key drivers of the circular ...
Fernando C. Lit, Erik Paredis, Josephina C. C. M. Huijben, Myriam M. A. H. Cloodt   +3 more
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Consumers Behavior and Awareness on Packaging Waste Management for Circular Economy: Theoretical vs. Empirical Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transition of consumption models towards a circular economy is fundamental, particularly in the food packaging sector, which generates a high proportion of waste. In this context, consumers play a fundamental role, especially at the domestic level through separate waste collection, to limit the use of virgin materials and facilitate the reuse ...
Maria Vittoria Rizzo, Roberta Stefanini, Lisa Orza, Francesca Pezzani   +3 more
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From Awareness to Ecosystemic Transformation: How Artificial Intelligence Enables Firms' Transition to a Circular Economy

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to aid firms' transition toward a circular economy (CE). However, empirical research on how small and medium‐sized enterprises use AI to support this transition is limited. Using the Gioia methodology, we analyze 25 in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with top managers of companies within a local
Abdollah Mohammadparast Tabas, Jonathan Mukiza Kansheba, Clavis Nwehfor Fubah, Khalid Mehmood   +3 more
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FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HOME BASED CARE SERVICES IN THE CONTROL OF COVID-19 INFECTION IN SHEEMA MUNICIPALITY, SHEEMA DISTRICT. A RESTROSPECTIVE STUDY.

Student's Journal of Health Research Africa
Introduction: Home care and home health companies offer a range of services to help people stay safe in their homes, including physical therapy, occupational therapy, nursing, personal care support, and transportation. Objective: The study analyzed COVID-19 suspects' use of Home Based Care (HBC), identified social, demographic, economic, and ...
Johnson Akankwasa, Gershom Atukunda, Waswa Bright Laban   +2 more
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