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Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2015 Contemporary and future cities are often labeled as "smart cities," "ubiquitous cities," "knowledge cities" and "creative cities." Informational urbanism includes all aspects of information and knowledge with regard to urban regions. "Informational city" is an umbrella term uniting the divergent trends of information-related city research ...
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Energy is a fundamental driver of economic growth, shaping productivity, industrialization, and long‐term economic resilience. In sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), where energy access remains uneven and infrastructure is underdeveloped, understanding sector‐specific energy demand is essential for designing sustainable energy strategies.
Michael Appiah +3 more
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Trade Liberalisation and Informality: New stylized facts [PDF]
The relationship between trade liberalisation and informal activity has not received the attention, whether theoretical or empirical, that it may deserve. The conventional view poses that trade liberalisation would cause a rise in informality. This paper
Norbert Fiess, Marco Fugazza
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Digital transformation (DT) is increasingly recognised as essential for improving environmental performance in process‐intensive and hazardous sectors; however, the mechanisms by which digitalisation translates into green operational performance (GOP) and environmental accountability remain insufficiently investigated, particularly in ...
Amila Kasun Sampath Udage Kankanamge +2 more
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Informality and poverty: Are these processes dynamically interrelated? Evidence from Argentina [PDF]
Poverty and informal employment are often regarded as correlated phenomena. Many empirical studies have shown that informal employment has a causal impact on household poverty, mainly through low wages.
Fernando Groisman +2 more
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Africa's Biodiversity Will Not Be Saved by Protected Areas Alone
Biological Diversity, EarlyView.
Luca Luiselli
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Businesses are increasingly striving to reduce their carbon footprint, with carbon offsetting emerging as a viable pathway towards achieving carbon neutrality. Such efforts signify a demonstrated commitment to fostering environmental sustainability and contributing to a more sustainable future.
Sanjeev Yadav +4 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how directors with environmental protection (EP) backgrounds influence corporate biodiversity concern (BIO) among Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2008 to 2023. Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory, we argue that directors' environmental expertise shapes firms' biodiversity strategies.
Chengming Huang +2 more
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Unconventional tourism mobilities: insights from an African business city
Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic SeriesRecently, it has been urged that tourism scholars should accord greater research attention to the phenomenon of ‘unconventional tourism mobilities’. In the urban Global South where informality is the dominant feature and mode of urbanization, the need ...
Logistic Makoni, Christian M. Rogerson
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Rethinking Informality in 21 Century African Cities: the missing issue
, 2014 The paper wants to contribute to the rich body of recent literature on both the urban informality issue and the growing urban middle class theme, by analyzing their interconnections, believing that only considering them as a unique setting, it could be ...
MAZZOLINI, ANNA
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