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The Circular Economy—A New Resilience Paradigm?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The circular economy (CE) has traditionally been positioned as a central instrument of the sustainability paradigm. Yet escalating geopolitical volatility and supply chain fragility have elevated resilience to a parallel strategic imperative, and the conceptual integration of CE and resilience remains underexplored.
Julian Kirchherr, Felix Carl Schultz
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Modeling Informality Formally: Households and Firms [PDF]
Informality is widespread in most developing countries. In Latin America, 50 percent of salaried employees work informally. Three stylized facts characterize informality: 1) small firms tend to operate informally while large firms tend to operate ...
Federico Weinschelbaum +1 more
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Balancing customary and statutory governance to sustain informality in Ghana's public spaces
Informality, a significant component of African cities, is under siege as state and local governments, through public policies, attempt to evict, displace, and relocate informal workers from city centres with an urban redevelopment agenda. We explore the
Adams, Timothy +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The transition to a circular economy (CE) increasingly depends on circular ecosystems: networks of autonomous yet interdependent actors that must coordinate material, information, and value flows to narrow, slow, and close resource loops. This creates a governance problem: Circularity requires orchestration, yet no single actor can impose ...
Felix Carl Schultz +3 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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On defining and measuring the informal sector [PDF]
A range of alternative empirical definitions of informal activity have been employed in the literature. Choice of definition is often dictated by data availability.
Henley, Andrew +2 more
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New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how Hamiter led equity‐minded change at Jupiter Valley College (JVC), a rural Hispanic‐Serving Institution (HSI), serving predominantly first‐generation college students from low‐income backgrounds who reside in a rural community in California.
Carlos A. Galan +2 more
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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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New Directions for Community Colleges, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Dual enrollment (DE) has expanded rapidly, yet students’ access to support services remains uneven. This study examined 55 community college websites in Texas to evaluate how clearly and comprehensively they presented DE information and communicated student support services.
JoHyun Kim +2 more
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Criminal governance and extortion in informal economies: fear as a mechanism of territorial control in Lima. [PDF]
Front SociolEspinoza Escobar JH +2 more
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