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ABSTRACT This study explores how sustainability is perceived and prioritized by consumers within full‐service restaurants and rural agritourism settings in Italy, examining the socio‐cultural and economic role of the HoReCa sector in promoting sustainable practices and analyzing gender and generational differences in consumer behavior.
Roberta Minazzi +3 more
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Ownership Characteristics, Real Exchange Rate Movements and Labor Market Adjustment in China [PDF]
This paper uses a firm level multi-industry data set covering 456 Chinese manufacturing sectors to assess the implications of Renminbi (RMB) real exchange rate appreciation for adjustments in employment and wage rates.
John Whalley, Risheng Mao
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ABSTRACT Amid increasing environmental and economic pressures, Africa's transition to a circular economy (CE) presents a vital pathway to inclusive, low‐carbon development. Yet, how digital transformation, informal innovation, and science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy readiness shape CE outcomes remains underexplored.
Emmanuel K. Manu +2 more
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The Impact of the Economic Stimulus on Domestic, Private Enterprises [PDF]
In the year 2008 and the first half of 2009, the world witnessed the unfolding and heavy repercussions of the global financial crisis which affected Vietnam, among others, through the reduction of investments inflow, lower global commodity prices and ...
Anh Nguyen Ngoc +2 more
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ABSTRACT Amid growing resource pressures, environmental regulation plays a critical role in enabling the transition to a circular economy (CE). This study conducts a systematic literature review to synthesize how different regulatory approaches—command‐and‐control, market‐based, voluntary, and reflexive—affect CE transitions across economic and ...
Li Yuan
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ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to examine the impact of corruption control, as a public institutional mechanism, on hazardous waste emissions of private sector entities. We also examine the extent to which Agenda 2030 moderates the relationship. We analyse data from the top 500 global companies.
Babajide Oyewo +3 more
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Reforming Without Resourcing: The Case of the Urban Water Supply in Zambia [PDF]
I. Introduction Public water supply systems have increasingly been subject to commercialisation or corporatisation in the developing world. This method is sometimes used as a surrogate for privatisation in circumstances where existing systems of ...
Hulya Dagdeviren, Simon A. Robertson
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ABSTRACT The concept of predictive maintenance in advanced manufacturing systems is crucial from the point of view of resource efficiency in the era of high competitiveness forced by energy transformation in the digital economy. Against the backdrop of sustainability and the opportunities a data cooperative offers, the combination of predictive ...
Christian Schachtner +6 more
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Private Enterprise and Democracy
Mervyn Crobaugh, Charles E. Carpenter
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Household enterprises in Vietnam : survival, growth, and living standards [PDF]
In Vietnam almost a quarter of adults worked in nonfarm household enterprises in 1998. Based on household panel data from the Vietnam Living Standards Surveys of 1993 and 1998, the authors find some evidence that operating an enterprise leads to greater ...
Haughton, Jonathan, Vijverberg, WimP. M.
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