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Assessing major food companies in Australia on their policies and practices related to environmental sustainability, 2023

open access: yesCurrent Research in Environmental Sustainability
The private sector, including food manufacturers, retailers, and quick-service restaurants, has an important role to play in reducing the environmental impact of food systems.
Francesca Serrentino   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Discrete event simulation for quick service restaurant traffic analysis [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of Winter Simulation Conference, 2005
Steven L. Jaynes, John O. Hoffman
openaire   +1 more source

Standardization versus customisation. The role of culture

open access: yes
Fast food restaurants have expanded globally in recent years. As companies become global marketers to acquire new knowledge and a greater understanding of the fast food business and the environment, in which they operate in order to determine and adopt ...
Bourlakis, Michael   +2 more
core  

Types of Struggles in Disrupted Interaction: A Case of Hard‐of‐Hearing Employees

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Everyone experiences disrupted interactions in their everyday life. However, research indicates that people with functional impairments are particularly exposed to patterns of interactional inequality at work. Despite this, little is known about the specific disrupted interactions in everyday life and the various types of interactional struggles this ...
Ida Friis Thing
wiley   +1 more source

Building a Collaborative Teaching Study Group as a Dynamic Nexus of Research and Practice in TBLT: Porous Systems, Agentic Beings, and Energy Flows

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite its potential benefits, empirical research on researcher–practitioner collaboration within collaborative teaching study groups (CTSGs) remains limited, particularly regarding how this collaboration is manifested and constructed. This study aims to fill this gap by documenting a 9‐year collaborative initiative that facilitated the ...
Yan Zhu, Bo Peng, Dingfang Shu
wiley   +1 more source

Factors that influence leading Philippine-based, home grown, quick service restaurants to enter the global market

open access: yes, 2010
The research study was done to distinguish the factors that influence leading Philippine-based, homegrown quick service restaurants (QSRs) to enter the global market.
Abalos, Cheenereth Eve F.   +4 more
core  

Lobbying and Political Risk Disclosure: Do Socially Responsible Firms Voluntarily Disclose More?

open access: yesBritish Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on theories of strategic communication, legitimacy, impression management and moral capital, this study investigates whether firms use political risk disclosure to offset negative perceptions associated with corporate lobbying. Using a sample of 10,120 observations from 1362 US firms between 2002 and 2018, we find that firms with ...
Maretno A. Harjoto   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

International Tourism in the Global South: Revealing an Extractive Development Process

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Hosting international tourism remains a key development strategy for many Global South countries to generate economic growth, government revenue and employment. However, this conventional wisdom can be contested: tourism may instead be seen as an extractive process that disrupts livelihoods, ecosystems and host economies.
Julia Jeyacheya, Mark P. Hampton
wiley   +1 more source

Cities Under Pressure: Evidence on Tourism Growth and Neighbourhood Change in Europe

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Across European cities, the rapid growth of tourism is reshaping urban life in increasingly contested ways. While the sector continues to support local economies, it is also increasingly associated with the sense that neighbourhoods are becoming less liveable for residents.
Mafalda Batalha
wiley   +1 more source

Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Firearm safety policy in the United States cannot succeed through legislation alone; effective interventions must also address the social, economic, and infrastructural conditions that shape perceptions of safety. Evidence suggests that place‐based investments can reduce violence and firearm deaths while strengthening social cohesion and ...
JONATHAN M. METZL
wiley   +1 more source

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