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Automating Sustainability: How Climate Action Unlocks the ESG Potential of Industrial Robotics
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The convergence of Industry 4.0 and global sustainability goals presents a critical paradox: while automation drives efficiency, its net impact on comprehensive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance remains contested. This study investigates the relationship between industrial robot and country‐level ESG performance across 63
Brahim Bergougui
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Unpackaging residential segregation: the importance of scale and informal market processes
Investigaciones Geográficas, 2009 This paper addresses two principal issues: a) the scale at which one examines urban segregation; and b) how informality, specifically accessibility to land markets and the process of land appropriation by low-income groups in Latin American cities ...
Peter M. Ward
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Urban informality as a signifier: Performing urban reordering in suburban Rio de Janeiro. [PDF]
Int Sociol, 2017 Müller FI.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In an era of rising geopolitical tensions and environmental instability, corporate political activities have become increasingly intertwined with ethical challenges and sustainability requirements. This study investigates the influence of environmental dynamics and corporate ethical responsibility on interorganizational conflict and ...
David Yulong Liu +4 more
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Town and Regional Planning, 2012 Access to urban land and resources and the pervasiveness of informality are perhaps the main cross-cutting features defining contemporary urbanism in the South, where the urbanisation of poverty is not only acute but where there is an increasing ...
Nigel Tapela
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Value Added Taxes, Chain Effects and Informality [PDF]
This paper investigates determinants of informal economic activity. We present an equilibrium model of informality and test its implications using a survey of 48,000+ small firms in Brazil.
Jose A. Scheinkman, Aureo de Paula
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Data‐Driven Pathways to Circular E‐Waste Management
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the volume and complexity of electronic waste grow worldwide, regional and subnational systems are increasingly tasked with managing the environmental, economic, and social challenges of circular resource recovery. This paper focuses on Canada's e‐waste sector to examine how circular economy (ce) principles can be integrated into regional ...
Saidia Ali +3 more
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Magister Artium (Development Studies) - MA(DVS)Recent work on ‘urban informality’- forms of urbanisation such as the growth of settlements outside the confines of the state and its policies- have begun to emphasise the politics and everyday negotiations ...
Ndwayi, Siyasanga
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Wage differentials in Mexico's urban labor market [PDF]
We estimate wage differentials across different segments of the Mexican urban labor market. We use a panel sample of individuals which allows us to control for workers' observable and non-observable characteristics, by focusing on wage changes reported ...
Daniel Chiquiar +2 more
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Consumer Adoption of Internet of Things
Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 673-693, March 2025.ABSTRACT The Internet of Things (IoT), a pivotal technology in enhancing user connectivity, faces a paradox: its widespread potential yet limited consumer adoption. This study addresses this dichotomy by synthesizing a large‐scale meta‐analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) and hierarchical linear meta‐analysis (HiLMA) of 2736 effect sizes from ...
Wagner Junior Ladeira +6 more
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