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Applying a Systems Thinking Approach to Circular Economy Transitions: Insights From the Use of a Sociotechnical Systems Approach Within the UK Hospitality Sector

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite more than 20 years of research into sustainable tourism, the environmental impact of the UK hospitality sector remains high. A growing body of research into the concept of a circular economy (CE) demonstrates that transitioning to this way of working has significant benefits both for the environment and business outcomes.
Danielle Farrow   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Joint production and sustainability investment decisions for a risk-averse manufacturer under a Cap-and-trade policy

open access: yesSustainable Operations and Computers
This study considers a risk-averse manufacturer that invests in sustainability technology to reduce carbon emissions under a cap-and-trade policy. In this study, stochastic demand is initially modeled as a linear function of both the sales price and ...
Hongling Lu, Qingguo Bai, Fanwen Meng
doaj   +1 more source

A Risk-Averse Newsvendor Model Under the Framework of Uncertainty Theory

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2019
Due to the ever-changing and complex market environment, companies frequently face highly uncertain demand where data are so insufficient that the use of random or fuzzy variables, which are typically assumed in the literature, is impractical ...
Shengzhong Zhang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk Aversion, Liability Rules, and Safety [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper investigates the performance of liability rules in two-party stochastic externality problems where negotiations are feasible and side payments are based on the realized level of externalities.
David Zilberman   +2 more
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Prior-independent Auctions for Risk-averse Agents

open access: yes, 2013
We study simple and approximately optimal auctions for agents with a particular form of risk-averse preferences. We show that, for symmetric agents, the optimal revenue (given a prior distribution over the agent preferences) can be approximated by the ...
Fu, Hu, Hartline, Jason, Hoy, Darrell
core   +1 more source

Takeover Vulnerability and the Discipline of ESG Overinvestment

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While takeovers serve a disciplinary role by replacing inefficient managers, the threat of takeovers may compel firms to divert attention from Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) efforts as a strategic response to external pressure, especially when such firms are already overinvesting in ESG.
Abongeh Tunyi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Optimal Strategies of Risk-Averse Newsvendor Model for a Dyadic Supply Chain with Financing Service

open access: yesDiscrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2017
This paper studies the budget-constrained newsvendor problem under risk aversion with financing service and builds a two-stage supply chain decision model on the order quantity and wholesale price.
Jianxin Chen
doaj   +1 more source

On the (De)Stabilization Effects of Biofuels: Relative Contributions of Policy Instruments and Market Forces

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2010
Ethanol production has recently surged in response to biofuel policies and increased fossil oil prices. We develop a partial equilibrium model focused on U.S.
Alexandre Gohin, David Treguer
doaj   +1 more source

Suppressing epidemic spreading by risk-averse migration in dynamical networks

open access: yes, 2018
In this paper, we study the interplay between individual behaviors and epidemic spreading in a dynamical network. We distribute agents on a square-shaped region with periodic boundary conditions.
Tang, Ming, Wang, Zhen, Yang, Han-Xin
core   +1 more source

Board Gender Diversity and Environmental Credit Risk in Banking: A Global Study of Bank Governance

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between board gender diversity and environmental credit risk in the global banking sector. Using a panel dataset of 345 publicly listed banks from 75 countries over the period 2018–2022, we find that greater female representation on bank boards is significantly associated with lower environmental credit
Kenza Mouti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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