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Igniting Technological and Non‐Technological Innovation for Economic Performance: Enhancing Results by Investing in Human Capital

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how strategic renewal, driven by the interaction among technological, marketing, and organizational innovation, enhances firms' economic performance. Using a panel dataset of 8871 Spanish firms covering the period 2009–2016, we provide empirical evidence on the different effects of each type of innovation and their ...
Beatriz Forés, José María Fernández‐Yáñez, Olga Broto, Andreas Kallmuenzer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blockchain Technology as a Catalyst for Business Model Transformation and Organizational Change: Insights From Finnish Case Studies

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Blockchain technology entails more than new operational tools; it is a strategic decision‐making challenge that reshapes how organizations create, deliver, and capture value. This research uses a multiple‐case study approach in the Finnish context, conducting 11 semi‐structured interviews.
Melisa Petra Benchis, Khuram Shahzad, Sorin Dan, Syed Hammad Ul Haq   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Ashes to Action: Economic Growth, Ecological Footprint, and Forest Fire Resilience in Advanced and Emerging Economies

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Forest fires have escalated alarmingly, now consuming more than double the tree cover compared to two decades ago, signaling a growing and urgent environmental crisis. This study addresses the ever increasing global concern of forest fires, focusing on sustainable economic recovery while minimizing the ecological footprint amid mounting ...
Laxita Soontha, Mohammad Younus Bhat, Arfat Ahmad Sofi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Long and Short of It: A Warmth‐Based Explanation of the Effects of Brand Name Length on Brand Equity

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite a consensus that shorter (vs. longer) brand names positively influence consumer mindset metrics, the mechanisms driving this influence remain unclear, as does the effect of brand name length on brands' financial performance. This article helps fill these literature gaps.
Ammara Mahmood, Jonathan Luffarelli
wiley   +1 more source

The 2‐D Orthogonal Packing Problem With Multiple Levels of Prioritization: A Spatial Optimization Perspective

Naval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper addresses two‐dimensional orthogonal packing within a confined space, integrating bin packing principles with facility layout concepts to address scenarios in which items must not only fit but also be arranged according to spatial priorities.
William K. Kirschenman, H. Sebastian Heese, Michael G. Kay, Russell E. King, Brandon M. McConnell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nonprofit Governance and Financial Stability: A Study of Government‐Funded Social Services

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nonprofit social service providers are essential in delivering vital services, often with public funding. This study adopts a contingency perspective to explore the relationship between organizational governance and financial stability in publicly funded nonprofit organizations. We use a combination of comparative multilevel analysis (CMA) and
Florentine Maier, Michael Meyer, Josef Baumüller, Christian Grünhaus, Franka Walde   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualizing the Street‐Level Bureaucrat Construct

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Differences among street‐level bureaucrats—across professions, institutional settings, regions, and countries—are largely overlooked in research. We propose conceptualizing the street‐level bureaucrat construct as a general variable that varies across institutional settings, professions, cultures, times, and locations. We analyze variations in
Faisal S. Cheema, Euipyo Lee, Rajneesh Gupta, James L. Perry   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Co‐Production as State‐Building: Relational Capacity and the Prevention of Violent Extremism in the Global South

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article advances a theory of co‐production as a relational state‐building strategy for countering youth radicalisation in fragile states. Grounded in fieldwork in northern Togo, affected by jihadist incursions from the Sahel and home to a predominantly young population, we argue that co‐production extends state presence into ‘brown areas’
Bakoa Nathan Madjoulba, Diego A. Salazar Morales   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying knowledge barriers to agroforestry adoption and co‐designing solutions to them

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Compared to monocultures, agroforestry can promote biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and climate resilience, whilst maintaining or enhancing production and profits. Despite this, uptake in temperate regions remains low. Knowledge gaps amongst land managers are a primary barrier to uptake, but little is known about which aspects of ...
Amelia S. C. Hood, Verena Scherfranz, Rosy E. Scholes, Erika Degani, Tom Staton, Alexa Varah, Lena Schaller, Alice L. Mauchline   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Care through cultivation: Indigenous Swidden agriculture as forest care

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper argues that the agricultural practices of Bunong swidden cultivators in northeastern Cambodia constitute relational care for forests that is fundamentally misunderstood, misrecognized, and marginalized by dominant state policies, conservation, and development paradigms. Bringing together care theory, long‐term ethnographic research,
Esther Leemann
wiley   +1 more source