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A Business Framework for Product Take‐Back—A Structured Multiple‐Case Analysis
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The potential of take‐back systems remains largely unrealized as initiatives have proven difficult to implement in practice. The question is why we do not see more take‐back systems given the substantial environmental benefits. We try to understand the challenges and stumbling blocks in setting up take‐back from a business perspective.
Rasmus Jørgensen, Torben Pedersen
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Secure Image LBP Feature Extraction in Cloud-Based Smart Campus
IEEE Access, 2018 The smart campus can monitor students in real time by analyzing students' images, but a large number of images bring an unbearable burden to the smart campus. The convenience of cloud computing has attracted smart campus to outsource their huge amount of
Zhihua Xia +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino +2 more
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SPOC: Secure Payments for Outsourced Computations
Proceedings 2018 Workshop on Decentralized IoT Security and Standards, 2018 Constrained devices in IoT networks often require to outsource resource-heavy computations or data processing tasks. Currently, most of those jobs are done in the centralised cloud. However, with rapidly increasing number of devices and amount of produced data, edge computing represents a much more efficient solution decreasing the cost, the delay and ...
Michal Król, Ioannis Psaras
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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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Outsourcing Eigen-Decomposition and Singular Value Decomposition of Large Matrix to a Public Cloud
IEEE Access, 2016 Cloud computing enables customers with limited computational resources to outsource their huge computation workloads to the cloud with massive computational power.
Lifeng Zhou, Chunguang Li
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Virtual Outsourcing of Verifiable Computation with Function Hiding
, 2021 For thousands of years, humans have utilized machinery to solve computational problems out of the reach of the human mind. While the problems have become more and more complex, the machines that are used to solve these problems have become smaller and
Roos, Christian
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Implementing digital technologies is touted as the next big step for the firms aiming to improve sustainability in their supply chains. These technologies are often credited with the potential to improve transparency and achieve sustainability.
Amna Farrukh, Aqeel Ahmed, Sadaat Yawar
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Tensions of Sustainability Logics: Performance of a Company Utilizing a Sustainable Business Model
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, companies have used sustainable business models to gain a competitive advantage. However, there are tensions due to the inconsistency between social, environmental, and economic logic in sustainable business models, making it difficult for companies to change. To understand the existing tensions and interactions between logics,
Ann‐Kristin Thienemann
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A Content-Based Image Retrieval Scheme Using an Encrypted Difference Histogram in Cloud Computing
Information, 2017 Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has been widely used in many applications. Large storage and computation overheads have made the outsourcing of CBIR services attractive.
Dandan Liu +3 more
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