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STEM materials: a new frontier for an intelligent sustainable world [PDF]
, 2019 Materials are addressed as possible enablers for solutions to many global societal challenges. A foresight exercise has been conducted to identify research paths to design, with a new approach, a generation of materials which can provide multi ...
B Alberts +10 more
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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
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Transition intermediaries play a pivotal role in configuring networks aligning the interests of stakeholders to achieve sustainable goals. However, the transition literature has paid little attention to the influence intermediaries can have in strengthening organisational capabilities. Especially in sectors that are slow to change, such as the
Horacio Gonzalez +2 more
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DCMS does science: highlights from the launch of the DCMS Science and Research Advisory Committee (SRAC) [PDF]
, 2010 "Based on the presentations, discussions and Q&A sessions during the SRAC launch event, this publication: highlights the key themes discussed by speakers and launch attendees; summarises the main points from the speakers’ presentations; and, outlines ...
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Building on dynamic capabilities theory, this paper develops a conceptual model explaining how organizations pursue eco‐innovation. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with sustainability and innovation managers across diverse industries, the study provides rich empirical insights into the drivers of eco‐innovation.
Maria Cristina Zaccone, Matteo Pedrini
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Fiscal foresight, forecast revisions and the effects of government spending in the open economy [PDF]
, 2012 This paper investigates the effects of government spending on the real exchange rate and the trade balance in the US using a new VAR identification procedure based on spending forecast revisions. I find that the real exchange rate appreciates and the trade balance deteriorates after a government spending shock, although the effects are quantitatively ...
Gambetti, Luca +2 more
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What happened to the U.S. stock market? accounting for the past 50 years [PDF]
The extreme volatility of stock market values has been the subject of a large body of literature. Previous research focused on the short run because of a widespread belief that in the long run the market reverts to well-established fundamentals.
Adrian Peralta-Alva, Michele Boldrin
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Transforming innovation for sustainability [PDF]
, 2012 The urgency of charting pathways to sustainability that keep human societies within a "safe operating space" has now been clarified. Crises in climate, food, biodiversity, and energy are already playing out across local and global scales and are set to ...
Arond, Elisa +11 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Reversing dominant unsustainable business practices requires a fundamental shift in how business practitioners perceive and enact sustainability. Management education is crucial for preparing prospective business professionals to lead this change, yet traditional curricula often perpetuate unsustainable paradigms.
Justo Alberto Ramírez‐Franco +2 more
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An examination of independent fiscal councils and their orientation to the future and policy making
European Journal of Futures Research, 2017 The aim of this paper is to review the rationale, nature and operation of independent fiscal councils (IFCs) in order to gain insights into how futures are being configured at executive levels of government and to examine how futures could be ...
Stuart Connor
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