Service Delivery in Rural Municipalities: Privatize, Cooperate, or Go It Alone?
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.
Halstead, John M. +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The adoption of circular economy (CE) practices supported by Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies remains limited, despite their strong potential to enhance sustainable performance (SP). Organizations continue to face practical challenges in identifying effective strategies, enabling technologies, and implementation conditions.
Than'a Alsaoudi, Adolf Acquaye
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Beyond technology: Understanding digital healthcare through patient experience and sociotechnical resilience in Northern Ghana. [PDF]
Dialogues HealthAbdulai MS, Mumuni E, Abdulai M.
europepmc +1 more source
Issue Construals and Corporate Water Stewardship
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the face of mounting environmental and social pressures, the importance of responsible corporate water stewardship (CWS) should be evident, yet not all businesses are taking water management issues seriously. The aim of this study is to explore why differences in CWS persist, especially within industries facing similar resource challenges ...
Daina Mazutis +3 more
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Developing an Integrated Municipal Environmental Health Framework for Communicable Disease Surveillance and Prevention in South Africa: A Mixed-Methods Study Protocol. [PDF]
Trop Med Infect DisMalebana LF, Sepadi MM, Mokgobu MI.
europepmc +1 more source
Voices From the Coast: Stakeholder Participation and Perception on Creating a Marine Protected Area
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores participatory processes in the context of marine conservation, with a specific focus on recent initiatives undertaken by the Apulia region in Italy to establish a new Marine Protected Area (MPA). Employing a qualitative cross‐sectional methodology, the study investigates how local communities perceive and engage with the ...
Giampiero Palazzo +3 more
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Acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of a digital innovation for monitoring public oral health services in Brazil - MonitoraSB: an implementation study. [PDF]
BMC Health Serv ResPinheiro EL +8 more
europepmc +1 more source
Operationalizing Circular Supply Chain Management: Scale Development and Empirical Validation
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study addresses the conceptual fragmentation and the lack of a measurement tool in circular supply chain management (CSCM), a field in which confusion with traditional sustainability strategies limits operational progress. The objective is to develop and validate a measurement instrument capable of capturing the transition toward the ...
José Moyano‐Fuentes +5 more
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Social Progress Index as a Determinant of Healthcare Access and Treatment in Pancreatic Cancer. [PDF]
Curr OncolTustumi F +10 more
europepmc +1 more source
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The circular economy (CE) has become a major focus in energy and environmental (E&E) research, as it helps advance sustainable development, improve resource efficiency and alleviate environmental pressure. Even so, the literature is still fragmented, particularly in the CE themes it explores, the levels of analysis it adopts and the methods ...
Jahira Debbarma +2 more
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