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Sustainability Orientation and Entrepreneurial Performance in Resource‐Constrained Contexts

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how sustainability orientation shapes entrepreneurial performance in bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (BoP) markets by theorizing responsible entrepreneurship as a central mechanism and BoP orientation as a contextual contingency. Using survey data from 283 small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana, we integrate perspectives
George Obeng Dankwah   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Waste, weeds, and wild food

open access: yesEchoGéo, 2019
The aim of this paper is to define the scope and an initial agenda for a critical geography of urban food collecting. It provides an overview of a multidisciplinary literature regarding patterns of foraging and scavenging to develop a theoretical ...
Flaminia Paddeu
doaj   +1 more source

Informality and protection from health shocks : lessons from Yemen [PDF]

open access: yes
The informal sector is generally believed to be more vulnerable to various risks due to limited access to social insurance, but little empirical evidence exists to support this statement.
Cho, Yoonyoung
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Informality from below: Urban development in Kabul framed by state-building and humanitarian intervention

open access: yes, 2018
Stadtentwicklung in der afghanischen Hauptstadt Kabul nach der westlichen Intervention ist gekennzeichnet von der Verschränkung einer durch Staatsaufbau nach westlichem Vorbild gesteuerten Logik und der sich in diesem Rahmen ausbreitenden Aneignung des ...
Schütte, Stefan, Calogero, Pietro
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Addressing the Energy Trilemma: The Role of Entrepreneurship, Regulation, and Climate Finance

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Balancing energy security, energy equity, and environmental sustainability has become increasingly challenging as economies pursue low‐carbon growth amid climate risk and persistent disparities in access to modern energy. Although entrepreneurship is widely recognized as a driver of innovation, its role in addressing the energy trilemma ...
Kingsley Imandojemu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The environmental impacts of asymmetric material flows. Waste circulation between institutions and garbage collectors

open access: yesDiacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2020
Despite a growing number of recent Discard Studies looking at waste circulation and its implications in urban contexts, they have not sufficiently addressed the links they have with State Governance and Informality.
Anna Karin GIANNOTTA
doaj  

Conceptualising Informality: Regulation and Enforcement [PDF]

open access: yes
The informality discourse is large and vibrant, and is expanding rapidly. But there is a certain conceptual incoherence to the literature. New definitions of informality compete with old definitions leading to a plethora of alternative conceptualisations.
Kanbur, Ravi
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Greens in Regulation: Biodiversity Strategy Implementation Across the Golf Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although much of the business and biodiversity literature focuses on extractive industries, we turn our attention to the golf industry. Golf courses occupy millions of acres globally, yet biodiversity strategy implementation across the golf industry remains understudied.
Jordan P. Howell, Jordan Moore
wiley   +1 more source

Commoning Public Spaces Towards Inclusive Urbanism in Ghana

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons
Public spaces in sub-Saharan African cities are undergoing redevelopment, which results in the displacement of informal workers. Despite statutory rule, customary laws still play a role in land use.
Philipa Birago Akuoko, Samuel Agyekum
doaj   +1 more source

Tolerated informality: Weak land governance and dualism at the Chinese urban-rural interface

open access: yes, 2020
The increasing scale and pace of urban expansion over recent decades has resulted in uneven socio-spatial development across the globe, polarising inequalities between the city and countryside. As land becomes an increasingly scarce resource in the midst
Ava Lynam
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