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Root Causes of African Underdevelopment [PDF]
What is the root cause of Africa’s current state of under-development? Is it the long history of slave trade, or the legacy of extractive colonial institutions, or the fallout of malaria? A precise answer still eludes us.
Sambit Bhattacharyya
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable business models (SBMs) inherently involve tensions, which are contradictory or misaligned demands that companies must consider simultaneously. However, there is a gap in the literature regarding the relevance and linkage of these tensions to strategic marketing considerations, including positioning, competitiveness, differentiation,
Päivi Petänen
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Baptized and Not Baptized Nemcy in the Muscovite Society of the 16th century [PDF]
Золотоордынское обозрение, 2014 The east European trade of slaves was big business. It had long roots at least from the age of Vikings and thousands of prisoners were transported yearly from Crimea and Kazan’ – Astrakhan to the markets of Central Asia, Asia Minor and Mediterranean area
Jukka Korpela
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Prehistoric and historic traces in the mtDNA of Mozambique: insights into the Bantu expansions and the slave trade [PDF]
, 2001 Luı́sa Pereira +5 more
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Slaving in Australian courts: blackbirding cases, 1869-1871 [PDF]
, 2000 This article examines major prosecutions in New South Wales and Queensland for blackbirding practices in Melanesian waters, and early regulation under the Imperial Kidnapping Act that was meant to correct problems those prosecutions raised.
Mortensen, Reid
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In response to global efforts to promote sustainability and combat climate change, industries increasingly leverage digital technologies to enhance organizational capabilities and adopt low‐carbon practices. This study focuses on the automotive manufacturing industry in Morocco, a critical sector in emerging economies, where low‐carbon ...
Hala Hmamed +4 more
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The Mediating Role of Climate Targets in Corporate Emission Reductions
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Corporations worldwide increasingly commit to Sustainable Development Goal 13 (SDG 13), yet the extent to which such commitments translate into measurable greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions remains uncertain. Drawing on Institutional and Legitimacy Theory, this paper examines the mediating role of climate targets in the relationship between SDG ...
Evgenia Anagnostopoulou
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The role of business towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been well established. However, SDG contextualization continues to pose a conundrum, particularly for firms operating in multiple contexts. This becomes even more problematic in the case of SDG 11, the only goal in the sustainable development agenda directly
Andreas Georgiou
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study illustrates how organizations reconcile their information processing capabilities with uncertainty within the supply chain (SC) through generative artificial intelligence (GAI) to achieve carbon performance (CP). A quantitative research methodology is applied, and 155 responses from manufacturing firms are analyzed through ...
Syed Muhammad Shariq +3 more
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Tráfico e navios negreiros: contribuição da Arqueologia Náutica e Subaquática [PDF]
Navigator, 2006 The papers aims at contributing to producing a new approach, nautical and archaeological, on the maritime slave trade. It refers to a classic topic in international historiography, namely the African slave traffic to Brazil.
Gilson Rambelli
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