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Participatory Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) provides companies with two benefits: creating social value and strengthening consumer relationships. Companies implement various types of CSR to maximize the positive effects of CSR, participatory CSR being one of these types.
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31 Jan 2024
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Determinants of Renewable Energy Consumption in Africa
The adoption of renewable energy remains Sub-Saharan Africa’s best option to achieve sustainable growth and mitigate climate change. Over the past decades, advocacy has identified renewable energy (RE) sources as reliable alternative sources of energy to conventional fossil energy sources such as crude oil, coal, and natural gas, stressing that they have some added advantages of being environmental-friendly, readily available, among others.
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30 Jan 2024
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Navigating Logistics and Supply Chain Operations after COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for a paradigm shift in supply chain and logistics operations to respond to myriad disruptions. However, this paradigm shift has changed the supply chain to be more resilient, agile, flexible, and adaptable to upcoming disruptions. Hence, a comprehensive guide to understanding, implementing, and harnessing the power of digitization in the face of disruption, leading to a more resilient and adaptive global community, is greatly appreciated.
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30 Jan 2024
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Eco-Innovation and Recycling on Raw Material Consumption
The basic hypothesis is that eco-innovation and recycling have a significant influence on raw material consumption. In the long run, by promoting eco-innovation and recycling, countries will minimize their demand and use of raw materials.
195
29 Jan 2024
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Artificial Intelligence Predicting Bankruptcy
Predicting bankruptcy within selected industries is crucial because of the potential ripple effects and unique characteristics of those industries. It serves as a risk management tool, guiding various stakeholders in making decisions. While artificial intelligence (AI) has shown high success rates in classification tasks, it remains uncertain whether its use significantly enhances the potential for early warning of impending problems.
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29 Jan 2024
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Economic Theories of Household Bargaining
Maternal and child health is severely impacted by adverse birth outcomes leading to a public health concern. A whole host of socioeconomic factors are instrumental in determining birth outcomes. Importantly, there is an intricate relationship between women’s autonomy, the perpetration of intimate partner violence in households, women’s paid work status and their consequent impact on birth outcomes.
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29 Jan 2024
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Measuring Short Food Supply Chain Sustainability
Short food supply chains (SFSCs) are one of the most direct approaches to more directly connecting consumers with producers. The scaling-up of SFSCs is often challenged by critical issues which can be overcome with identification of the most sustainable, replicable schemes.
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29 Jan 2024
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Geoparks and International Dark Sky Parks
In the digital age, effective website promotion plays a pivotal role in attracting visitors to alternative forms of tourism. Geopark websites adeptly promote geotourism through a diverse array of digital tools, with the potential for minor enhancements. In contrast, the majority of dark sky park websites exhibit limited visibility in the promotion of astronomical tourism. These identified criteria and results serve as crucial benchmarks for optimizing the websites of UNESCO Global Geoparks and International Dark Sky Parks, thus ensuring the comprehensive fulfillment of established promotional standards for alternative tourism destinations.
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26 Jan 2024
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Socioeconomic, Demographic and Technological Factors' Effects on Accidents
To effectively prevent fatal accidents, it is crucial to develop strategies grounded in a thorough understanding of the various contributing factors. These encompass a range of elements from human behavior and vehicle malfunctions to environmental conditions and broader macrosocioeconomic influences. Extensive research has demonstrated a mutual coordination between road transportation and economics, highlighting how economic status can influence regional disparities in crash occurrences. This underscores the importance of considering a diverse array of factors in devising comprehensive accident prevention strategies.
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26 Jan 2024
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Sustainable Development of National Innovation Systems
National innovation systems (NIS) are generally perceived as a set of interconnected organizations (or structures) that domestically produce and commercially implement scientific knowledge and technology. The development of any national innovation system is the key element for shaping up the scientific values in every country.
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26 Jan 2024
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