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The East Midlands in 2010: sub-regional profiles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The East Midlands in 2010 is the updated evidence base that supports the regional economic strategy, A Flourishing Region. This document presents detailed analysis of the East Midlands' sub-regions.
Altorjai, S, Lawton, C
core  

Take Me Home, Country Roads: Historical Diasporas and Contemporary FDI Patterns

open access: yesThe World Economy, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 94-117, January 2026.
ABSTRACT We examine whether historical diasporas shape current foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, using Italian data from the ‘age of mass migration’ (1876–1925). We find that Italian regions with larger diasporas at the turn of the twentieth century maintain persistent economic ties with their historical destinations.
Luigi Benfratello   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Circular Economy Innovation Can Backfire on the Environment: Quantifying the Rebound Effect of the Textiles and Clothing Sector

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, Volume 34, Issue 8, Page 10495-10512, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Circular economy (CE) is championed as a sustainability solution, promoting reuse, recycling and resource efficiency to reduce environmental harm. However, CE innovations can trigger a rebound effect (RE), where lower costs stimulate higher consumption and production, paradoxically negating sustainability gains.
Erez Yerushalmi, Krishnendu Saha
wiley   +1 more source

Customer complaint behaviour (CCB) in the retail sector: why do customers voice their complaints on Facebook?

open access: yesInternational Review of Retail Distribution & Consumer Research, 2019
With the increasing usage of platforms such as Facebook, understanding customer complaint behaviour (CCB) in the context of the social media is imperative for any businesses.
X. Mei   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Unravelling Inter‐Organisational Collaboration to Address the Circular Economy Transitions: A Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, Volume 34, Issue 8, Page 10653-10680, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This study offers a systematic review of the growing body of literature about inter‐organisational collaboration initiatives that have arisen to deal with the circular economy transition. Indeed, circular economy transition is highly reliant on stakeholders' interaction in collaborative patterns, where organisations bring together specific ...
Francesco Antonio Perotti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Ineffective Origin of Australian Protectionism? Victoria's McCulloch Tariff of 1866

open access: yesEconomic Record, Volume 101, Issue 335, Page 524-546, December 2025.
Economic historians have identified Victoria's McCulloch Tariff of 1866 as the genesis of Australian protection of manufacturing—a trade‐policy regime that was to persist until the late‐twentieth century. The McCulloch Tariff imposed 10 per cent duties on a range of manufactured imports; this range was further extended by the closely following Customs ...
Brian D. Varian
wiley   +1 more source

Factors Affecting E-commerce Adoption of Small and Medium Enterprises in Sri Lanka: Evidence from Retail Sector

open access: yesAsian Journal of Advanced Research and Reports, 2019
Purpose: There is a resistance in the adoption of e-commerce in certain parts of the world even though most successful businesses in the world has successfully adopted e-commerce to their businesses gained an increasing success.
D. Y. Govinnage, K. Sachitra
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Neoliberal Governance and Agribusiness Influence: Public Health Policymaking and the Risk to Meatpacking Workers During COVID‐19

open access: yesSociology of Health &Illness, Volume 47, Issue 8, November 2025.
ABSTRACT In this article, we examine how neoliberal governance, corporate influence and public health policy intersected during the COVID‐19 pandemic in one meatpacking town we call Cattleford. We focus on two research questions: (1) In what ways did the political power of agribusiness shape local‐level public health policymaking around meatpacking ...
India Luxton, Stephanie A. Malin
wiley   +1 more source

Wholesale and retail trade sector occupational fatal and nonfatal injuries and illnesses from 2006 to 2016: Implications for intervention.

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2019
BACKGROUND We analyzed the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) fatal and nonfatal injuries and illness data on U.S. workers in the wholesale and retail trade (WRT) sector from 2006 to 2016.
Vern Putz Anderson   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Co-innovation at Mercadona: a radically different and unique innovation model in the retail sector

open access: yesJournal of Business & Retail Management Research, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to describe through an exploratory case study how the leading retailing company in Spain, Mercadona has been able to generate a set of dynamic capabilities – detection, absorption, integration and innovation – that support an
Miguel Blanco Callejo, C. D. Heredero
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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