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Organizational Sensemaking Theory Perspective of Developing AI‐Driven Strategies for Sustainability Initiatives

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being touted to assist organizations, AI integration for sustainability efforts has been limited AND sporadic and tends to follow an ad hoc strategy. The existing literature therein focuses on the technological capabilities of AI, overlooking how organizations make sense of and ...
Amanda Balasooriya, Darshana Sedera
wiley   +1 more source

Reporting What Matters, or Reporting What Looks Good? Materiality and Balance in Post–Rana Plaza Apparel Sustainability Disclosure

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability reports (SRs) are widely criticized for vague disclosures and selective emphasis on positive outcomes, yet systematic research on two core SR challenges remains limited: materiality (whether disclosed content is relevant) and balance (whether both achievements and challenges are reported).
Mahsa Mohammadrezaei, José Carlos Marques   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Constitutes an Attractive Product‐as‐a‐Service Offer? Examining Consumer Preferences for (Circular) Business Patterns

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Little is known about consumer preferences for combinations of circular business model patterns, despite their potential to benefit the design of product services. This study examines consumer preferences for product‐as‐a‐service offers, combined with circular product attributes, across Sweden and the Netherlands.
Steven Sarasini, Aemiro Melkamu Daniel, Katherine Whalen, Nancy Bocken, Agnieszka Hunka, Tarlan Ahmadov   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Assessment of Omani Native Sheep Fiber Production and Quality Characteristics

Journal of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, 2010
Wool production and quality measurements were carried out on 100 Omani native female sheep (body weight 38.6 ± 5.5 kg; age 993 ± 488 d). Sheep were kept in partially shaded pens and fed ad libitum Rhodes grass hay (crude protein 8.83%) plus a daily ...
Osman Mahgoub, Isam T. Kadim, Ahmed Al-Dhahab, Reynaldo B. Bello, Issa S. Al-Amri, Aisha A. Ambu Ali, Samera Khalaf   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Connecting Thoughts and Actions: A Managerial Process Model on Circular Business Model Innovation

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Addressing environmental grand challenges such as resource scarcity requires circular business model innovation (CBMI) that enables firms to efficiently close and slow resource cycles through novel activity systems. Drawing on a grounded theory approach based on 59 in‐depth interviews with top managers from Swiss SMEs, we developed a process ...
Fabian Takacs, Karolin Frankenberger
wiley   +1 more source

Synchronising Stakeholder Roles: How Do Stakeholders Actively and Dynamically Shape Networked Business Models for Sustainability?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tackling sustainability challenges requires coordinated actions across diverse stakeholders. Sustainability‐oriented innovation thus demands networked business models for sustainability (NBMfS), where focal companies and stakeholders co‐create value through interdependent but coordinated roles.
Giovanna Attanasio, Cinzia Battistella
wiley   +1 more source

First-time application of biomordants in conjunction with the Alkanna tinctoria root extract for eco-friendly wool dyeing

Journal of Natural Fibers, 2019
Associated environmental hazards with the use of synthetic dyes and toxic metal mordants in the textile industry lead to concerns for alternatives. Natural dyes and biomordants are the new eco-friendly and biocompatible resources for textile coloration ...
Mohd Shabbir, Luqman Jameel Rather, Mohd Nadeem Bukhari, Shahid-ul-Islam, Mohd Ali Khan, Faqeer Mohammad   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Australian Wool Industry: A hedonic pricing analysis of the factors affecting price of Australian wool

We estimate a hedonic pricing model to quantify the relationship between clean price of lots of wool and individual lot characteristics for all superfine, fine, medium and broad wool types.
Gibbon, Candice, Nolan, Elizabeth
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Locked in Transition: Examining the Role of Paradoxical Tensions in the Transition From Industrial Cluster to Eco‐Clusters

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Industrial clusters are central to the circular economy transition, yet how they develop into eco‐clusters and the paradoxical tensions this transformation fuels remain underexplored. Drawing on 48 in‐depth interviews and secondary data from a Turkish textile‐recycling cluster, we develop an empirically grounded model of eco‐cluster transition
Tulin Dzhengiz, Leona A. Henry, Simon M. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Circular Innovations in Complex Systems: A Blueprint of Four Design Archetypes

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular innovations (CI), defined as the redesign of products, services or practices to minimise waste, reduce resource use and regenerate natural systems, are essential for advancing the circular economy. Despite growing recognition, their deployment in systems of linked parts with unpredictable interactions (complex systems) remains limited
Sophie Führer, Lucas Miehé, Catharina Bening   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source