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The Fast, the Steady and the Tenacious: Funding Pathways for Circular Start‐Ups

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular start‐ups (CSUs) are critical for unlocking the circular economy, yet they face persistent barriers in accessing finance. Despite growing interest from policymakers and financing institutions, little empirical evidence explains how these ventures pursue and secure funding.
Pilar Mejía‐Vélez, Wim Van Opstal, Christina Bidmon, Saskia Manshoven, Julian Kirchherr   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ship crack detection method based on lightweight fast convolution and bidirectional weighted feature fusion network

Zhongguo Jianchuan Yanjiu
ObjectiveAs traditional ship crack detection methods based on artificial visual inspection and ultrasonic methods in ship repair and inspection processes have the characteristics of low efficiency, high cost and high danger, a ship crack detection method
Chong WANG, Yuhui ZHU
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring Supply Chain Visibility for Circularity: A Delphi Approach

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular supply chains (CSCs) depend on enhanced supply chain visibility (SCV) to track and manage resource flows and thereby enable efficient decision‐making. Despite confronting silo mentalities, fragmented information, technological barriers, resistance to change, and a lack of standardization, data sharing remains crucial for SCV and ...
Tarun Kumar Agrawal, Ravi Kalaiarasan, Sayyed Shoaib‐ul‐Hasan, Seyoum Eshetu Birkie, Sandeep Jagtap, Jan Olhager, Magnus Wiktorsson, Patrik Jonsson   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Condition Diagnostics of Marine Centrifugal Pumps Based on Blade-Passing Frequency Harmonics with Analytical DFT Leakage Compensation

Polish Maritime Research
The reliable operation of high-power marine centrifugal pumps is critical for the safety and efficiency of ballast and fire-fighting systems, as well as for the functioning of a wide range of power and auxiliary installations on large ocean-going vessels.
Varbanets Roman, Kyrnats Vladyslav, Kholdenko Volodymyr, Minchev Dmytro, Bilousov Ievgen, Maulevych Vladyslav, Volodymyr Kucherenko, Nadiia Aleksandrovska   +7 more
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The Grey Zone of Stakeholder Engagement: Misalignment as a Manifestation of Greyness in Stakeholder Collaboration

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study identifies and conceptualises the grey zone of stakeholder engagement and explores how it manifests in a collaborative context related to the promotion of a circular economy. While prior research on stakeholder engagement has highlighted the positive, value‐creating bright side or the harmful dark side of stakeholder engagement, we ...
Annika Blomberg, Anna Hannula, Johanna Kujala   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Firms' Green Responses to Environmental Regulations: A Three‐Dimensional Concurrent Engineering Perspective

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates companies' responses to energy efficiency policies, focusing on mandatory and voluntary regulations that create a complex landscape for businesses to navigate. Using a sample of 1473 firms across 29 European countries (2002–2018), we explore the impact of legislation on green redesign—operationalized through ...
Thomas Alexopoulos, Dimitra Kalaitzi, Giorgos Papagiannakis, Konstantina Spanaki   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supply Chain Network, ESG Scores and Financial Performance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper provides novel evidence on the role of supply chain networks in influencing firms' environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores and financial performance. Our analysis employs financial, board, ESG and supply chain data, resulting in an unbalanced panel of over 16,000 firm‐year observations from 3028 publicly traded US firms ...
Michail Filippidis, Renatas Kizys, Panagiotis Tzouvanas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Material Tensions to Organizational Paradoxes: How Manufacturers Cope With the Limits of Circular Product Design

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular product design (CPD) is central to advancing the circular economy by enabling the narrowing, slowing, and closing of resource flows. Yet, its implementation remains persistently challenging for firms. Prior research has largely framed these challenges as discrete barriers, overlooking the structural contradictions embedded in CPD ...
Vanessa Robertson, Nelly Rahimy, Suleika Bort   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Supply Chain Capabilities in Linking Circular Economy Practices and Supply Chain Resilience

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how circular economy (CE) practices relate to supply chain resilience (SCRES), focusing on the capability‐based mechanisms through which CE strategies may influence resilience outcomes. Drawing on survey data from 125 Italian firms engaged in CE initiatives, we employ partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS‐
Roberta Pellegrino, Barbara Gaudenzi, Luca Fraccascia, Andrea Genovese, Luigi Jesus Basile   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pro‐Organic by Design: Choice Architecture Shaping Online Organic Grocery Purchases

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Consumer uptake of organic food is shaped by both personal values and the way choices are structured in the retail environment. Unlike prior research, we here investigate how elements of supermarket choice architecture influence organic choices.
John Thøgersen, Darius‐Aurel Frank, Jessica Aschemann‐Witzel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source