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Options and Recommendations for a Funding Strategy in Vietnam [PDF]

, 2003
Vietnam over the last 10-15 years has made enormous gains in poverty reduction. Most people have benefited from high economic growth rates. However, overall it is still a relatively poor country in terms of per capita income and the gap between the ...
John Buttery
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Leading the Loop: Anchor‐Led Orchestration in Nascent Circular Ecosystems—A Qualitative Case Study

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition towards a circular economy necessitates coordinated, systemic change across value chains. Yet the role of anchor firms in initiating and orchestrating nascent circular ecosystems remains underexplored. Using an inductive, qualitative single‐case design, we analyse a German mid‐sized entrepreneurial firm, drawing on 21 interviews
Johann Felix Mader, Patrick Spieth
wiley   +1 more source

The Belgian NGO landscape and the challenges of the New Aid Approach: dealing with fragmentation and emerging complexities [PDF]

Belgium's Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO)-sector embodies some of the country's most distinctive characteristics. Two of its main features are the affiliation of many organisations to one of the societal pillars and the divergence of the NGO ...
Huyse, Huib, Molenaers, Nadia, Nijs, Leen   +2 more
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Reporting What Matters, or Reporting What Looks Good? Materiality and Balance in Post–Rana Plaza Apparel Sustainability Disclosure

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability reports (SRs) are widely criticized for vague disclosures and selective emphasis on positive outcomes, yet systematic research on two core SR challenges remains limited: materiality (whether disclosed content is relevant) and balance (whether both achievements and challenges are reported).
Mahsa Mohammadrezaei, José Carlos Marques   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Economics of Non-Governmental Organisations. [PDF]

The purpose of this paper is to identify the organisational comparative advantage of NGOs, and to develop a model which explains the set of circumstances uder which they emerge and dominate other types of firms.
C.D. Scott, R. Hopkins
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The Dynamics of Community Development, Product Responsibility and Environmental Management Teams for Improving Emissions Performance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates whether, under what conditions, and how community development—conceived as a form of engagement with secondary stakeholders—affects firms' emissions performance. Specifically, we examine the moderating role of Environmental Management Teams (EMTs) and the mediating role of product responsibility capability.
Misagh Tasavori, Reza Zaefarian, Niraj Kumar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Campaigning and Development Education in the Era of Diffused Knowledge Arenas

Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review, 2016
This article revives the debate about campaigning and development education (DE), and challenges a widely held view that their distinctive approaches to public engagement are polar opposites, and their methodologies mutually exclusive.
Son Gyoh
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Non-governmental organisations (NGOS) boards and corporate governance: the Ghanaian experience

Corporate Ownership and Control, 2008
This paper seeks to examine the Boards of NGOs in line with best corporate governance practices using evidence from Ghana. Data collected were analysed using a comparative case approach which involved a comparison of the Boards of the four (4) main categories of NGOs in Ghana to ascertain whether they exhibit differences or similarities.
openaire   +1 more source

Connecting Thoughts and Actions: A Managerial Process Model on Circular Business Model Innovation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Addressing environmental grand challenges such as resource scarcity requires circular business model innovation (CBMI) that enables firms to efficiently close and slow resource cycles through novel activity systems. Drawing on a grounded theory approach based on 59 in‐depth interviews with top managers from Swiss SMEs, we developed a process ...
Fabian Takacs, Karolin Frankenberger
wiley   +1 more source

NGO Management and Brand Strength with Social Marketing Context: The Cide LAG

Forum Scientiae Oeconomia
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are entities that independently engage with various societal issues. Research into whether these organisations achieve their defined goals and whether they are well-managed is limited.
Alp Par, Orhan Polat
doaj   +1 more source