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Evaluation of children's centres in England (ECCE) : strand 1: first survey of children's centre leaders in the most deprived areas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This report is the first output from the Evaluation of Children's Centres in England (ECCE), a six year study commissioned by the Department for Education and undertaken by NatCen Social Research, the University of Oxford and Frontier Economics.
Agur, Maya   +8 more
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Strategic Sustainability Assessment in the Construction Sector: A Multidimensional Index for Decision Making in Decentralised Economies

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article evaluates the average business performance of construction firms across Spain's 17 autonomous communities within a decentralised governance framework. A regional composite sustainability index is developed, integrating economic, social and environmental intensity indicators.
Francisco José Castillo‐Díaz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Typologies

open access: yes, 2012
Karen Green considers writing about comics, and writing about writing about comics.
openaire   +2 more sources

Strategic Marketing Tensions in Sustainable Business Models: A Conceptual Approach Through Customer Value Propositions and Stewardship

open access: yesBusiness 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
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Taxes and Subsidies for Sustainability: Experimental Evidence on Consumer Preferences for Business Strategy

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular textile management is essential to achieving sustainable consumption, as outlined in SDG 12, but consumer behavior and economic factors often hinder its adoption. This study investigates how environmental policies, such as carbon taxes and subsidies, influence consumer choices in the fast fashion sector by examining purchasing ...
Alessandro Cascavilla   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kaleidoscope JEIRP on Learning Patterns for the Design and Deployment of Mathematical Games: Final Report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Project deliverable (D40.05.01-F)Over the last few years have witnessed a growing recognition of the educational potential of computer games. However, it is generally agreed that the process of designing and deploying TEL resources generally and games ...
Alexopoulou, Efi   +14 more
core   +1 more source

Operationalising Sufficiency in an Organisational Context: A Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Efficiency‐led sustainability is important but often fails to deliver absolute reductions in resource use, leaving organisations exposed to rebound effects. What remains underexplored is how sufficiency, the strategic limitation of consumption and resource use, is operationalised within organisational contexts.
Shahrokh Nikou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grylloi: A Being with Mixed Depictions from Konya

open access: yesCercetări Arheologice
This study is based on a mixed figure on a ring stone from the Roman period (1st – 2nd. century AD) preserved in the Konya Archaeology Museum. This figure is seen as a combination of four elements: a horse protome, a Silenus mask body, rooster feet and a
Nizam Abay
doaj   +1 more source

Introducing the Spatial Conflict Dynamics indicator of political violence

open access: yes, 2020
Modern armed conflicts have a tendency to cluster together and spread geographically. However, the geography of most conflicts remains under-studied. To fill this gap, this article presents a new indicator that measures two key geographical properties of
Radil, Steven M.   +3 more
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