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Digital Technologies for Transparent and Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Resource Orchestration‐Based View in the Textile Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Implementing digital technologies is touted as the next big step for the firms aiming to improve sustainability in their supply chains. These technologies are often credited with the potential to improve transparency and achieve sustainability.
Amna Farrukh, Aqeel Ahmed, Sadaat Yawar
wiley   +1 more source

ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE GENERATED FROM CONTACT/SEPARATION AND SLIDING OF FOOT ON INSOLE OF POLYPROPYLENE SHOES IN HOSPITALS [PDF]

Journal of the Egyptian Society of Tribology
Electrostatic charges (ESC), generated from contact/separation and sliding of foot and insole of polypropylene (PP) shoes used by people of medical care in hospitals are discussed in the present work.
A. S. Ali, A. M. Al-Kabbany, W. Y. Ali, A. K. Ameer   +3 more
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Highlighting That Green Products Derive From Waste: Which Is the Effect on Consumer Behavioral Intention?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the current market landscape, many innovative eco‐friendly materials are being developed. Plant‐based leather is being used recently in the production of fashion accessories. Based on the rational perspective in explaining sustainable consumer behavior, this study investigates the effect of green perceived utility, perceived performance ...
Rosa Maria Dangelico, Luca Fraccascia
wiley   +1 more source

Factors that influence field hockey footwear selection: An online survey

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research
Background Little is known about factors that influence footwear selection by field hockey players. Methods An online survey was used to collect data on participant demographics and physical characteristics, factors influencing footwear selection ...
Christopher R. Derry, Hylton B. Menz, Katrine Okholm Kryger, Athol Thomson, Caoimhe Hoey, Daniel R. Bonanno   +5 more
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Connecting Thoughts and Actions: A Managerial Process Model on Circular Business Model Innovation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Addressing environmental grand challenges such as resource scarcity requires circular business model innovation (CBMI) that enables firms to efficiently close and slow resource cycles through novel activity systems. Drawing on a grounded theory approach based on 59 in‐depth interviews with top managers from Swiss SMEs, we developed a process ...
Fabian Takacs, Karolin Frankenberger
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Incidence of hallux valgus deformity among Iranian university students

Ṭibb-i Tavānbakhshī, 2012
Background and Aim: The dramatically increased incidence of hallux valgus (HV) deformity is more related to the cultural rather than genetic parameters.
Abbas Rahimi, Mehdi Rezaee, Reza Behrouzi, Sedigheh-Satad Naemi   +3 more
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Beyond Technology: The Strategic Role of Human Resource Management in Advancing Circular Economy Performance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This work aims to understand the role played by Industry 4.0 (I4.0) base technologies and circular economy–oriented human resource management (CE‐HR) in the advancement of the circular economy (CE) performance. The present study builds on the natural resource‐based view to propose and empirically test three hypotheses.
Diéssica de Oliveira‐Dias, Javier Carrillo‐Hermosilla, José Moyano‐Fuentes, Juan Manuel Maqueira Marín, Christoph P. Kiefer   +4 more
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Design of Night Mountaineering Intelligent Shoes based on Consumer Needs

Pige Kexue Yu Gongcheng
With the increasing popularity of mountaineering and the increasing level of intelligence in footwear and clothing, the design of mountaineering boots is also in urgent need of transformation and upgrading.
Zijin MENG, Hong SHEN, Yuanjing HUANG, Wenjing YANG, Ruyu WAN   +4 more
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Industrial Symbiosis as a Neglected Opportunity in Industrial Decarbonisation Pathways: Qualitative Insights From the Australian Manufacturing Sector

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Industrial symbiosis (IS) represents a key strategy for industrial decarbonisation (ID) by converting one industry's waste into valuable inputs for another, reducing emissions and resource extraction. Scientific studies have explored the concept, implementation approaches and theoretical foundations of IS.
Marzieh Dehghan Niri, A S M Monjurul Hasan, Andrea Trianni   +2 more
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On Footwear and Disability: A Dance of Animacy?

Societies, 2017
In order to explore what an anthropological material culture approach to disability would comprise, we take Tim Ingold’s morphogenetic approach to life as continuously unfolding, a result of things engaged in a dance of animacy, and in processes of ...
Patrick Devlieger, Jori De Coster
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