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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In response to growing global challenges, this study explores how social entrepreneurship within the Edible City movement contributes to building resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban food systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with over 70 stakeholders across five cities—Berlin, Andernach, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Havana—we ...
Ina Säumel +6 more
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Service Delivery in Rural Municipalities: Privatize, Cooperate, or Go It Alone? [PDF]
Choices in production and contracting arrangements for a wide range of services were studied using data from approximately 1,000 small, mostly rural municipalities from Illinois, New Hampshire and Wisconsin.
Deller, Steven C. +2 more
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The Application of In-house Procurement by Municipalities in Municipal Services Management
, 2019 The topic of the article is the application of in-house procurement by municipalities in municipal services management. The essence of in-house contracts, also known as direct contracts, is a specific relation between the contracting authority and the economic operator.
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Growth Strategy of Circular Startups
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular startups (CSUs) play a crucial role in the circular transition by developing circular business models (CBMs) that minimise resource use and narrow material and energy loops. However, empirical research on how CBMs shape growth strategies and how ecosystems enable or constrain scaling remains limited.
Gustavo Dalmarco +3 more
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Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2013 The purpose of the article is to study the main criteria and system of monitoring the quality of housing and communal services.In the course of the research the main factors forming the quality of providing housing and municipal services, such, as ...
Tamara Nigmatovna Nerovnja +1 more
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New Local Government System: A Step Towards Community Empowerment? [PDF]
Failure of the central/provincial governments to adequately capture local preferences and provide basic services strengthened the case for a new local government system for delivery of public services along with the authority to impose fees, taxes, user ...
Zulqarnain Hussain Anjum
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Transportation for an Aging Population: Promoting Mobility and Equity for Low-Income Seniors [PDF]
, 2018 This study explores the travel patterns, needs, and mobility problems faced by diverse low-income, inner-city older adults in Los Angeles in order to identify solutions to their mobility challenges.
Brozen, Madeline +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study analyzed Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technology applications in agribusiness and the role of strategic stakeholders, engagement methods, and other critical aspects data sharing, confidentiality, integrity, decision‐making, and sector‐specific requirements in promoting circularity.
Simone Sehnem +3 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
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The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ [PDF]
Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services in distributional analysis, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality estimates.
Aaberge, Rolf +3 more
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