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Beyond a state-centric approach to urban informality: Interactions between Delhi's middle class and the informal service sector. [PDF]
Curr Sociol, 2017 Schindler S.
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Urbanization, Migration, Information
Проект Байкал, 2016 In the contemporary world urbanization becomes a large-scale process. Huge flows of people migrate from poorer districts to the cities with a higher level of consumption. It takes migrants about 15-25 years to give up their traditional ascetic way of life. In this period the ‘new citizens’ try to arrange compact settlements with an archaic way of life,
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The circular economy, dominated by capitalocentric, technocentric, and eco‐modernist discourses, risks perpetuating systemic injustice because of its limited consideration of the social and of what is possible. In this article, we examine how social justice can be embedded into circular business models (CBMs)—key drivers of the circular ...
Fernando C. Lit +3 more
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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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Conceptualising Informality: Regulation and Enforcement [PDF]
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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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular innovation (CI) research has identified a wide range of circular strategies and design approaches, yet offers limited insight into how CI evolves as a learning process within firms and which governance mechanisms guide this progression. Drawing on organizational learning (OL), this study examines how exploration and exploitation shape
Shamima Haque +2 more
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Incorporating informality into urban and regional planning education curriculum in Nigeria
Town and Regional Planning, 2012 To achieve sustainable development in any society the educational system must be responsive to the dynamics of that society. This article discusses issues on the level of training on informality in African planning schools with emphasis on the Lagos ...
Leke Oduwaye, Oluwafemi Olajide
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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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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether stronger competition supports or constrains corporate environmental responsibility, using China's 2008 Anti‐Monopoly Law as a quasi‐natural experiment. Applying a difference‐in‐differences design to Chinese A‐share listed firms in heavily polluting industries from 2006 to 2019, we find that firms with high ...
Wen Li +4 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular business models (CBMs) have gained increasing scholarly attention as organisations seek to transition toward more sustainable and regenerative economic systems. Despite this growing body of research, the literature remains fragmented across disciplines and lacks an integrated understanding of the drivers, mechanisms, contextual ...
Virginie Litaudon +2 more
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