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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Sustainable value"”.
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SUSTAINABLE VALUE ANALYSIS FOR PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS
… systems (PSS) are regarded as promising sustainable business models with significant potential to synergise economic, environmental and social value, together termed ‘sustainable value’. This research investigates ways in which manufacturing firms can identify opportunities for …
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Creating and Capturing Sustainable Value for Additive Manufacturing
This research has explored the business model and sustainable value in the context of additive manufacturing (AM). In terms of the sustainable value of AM business models, it indicates that the AM business models not only generate monetary revenue through selling machines, materials, and other …
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Sustainable Value Creation Through Mass Timber Development in North America
… impact of new development while also increasing value by employing new mass timber technology to meet the growing demand for new buildings. At the same time, approved changes to the 2021 International Building Codes (IBC) and increased investment in new production facilities will improve the …
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Transformation of the business model to establish sustainable value in the consumer durables super store industry of Sri Lanka
… These strategies in turn are responsible for the value creation or value erosion that takes place during the operation of the organization determining its sustainability, and in a broader context the sustainability of the industry. The research is done for the Consumer Durables Super Store (CDSS) …
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Investigating the strategic integration of Industry 4.0 technology and organising for sustainable value creation. A qualitative analysis of multiple case studies in traditional manufacturing sectors
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Soil degradation in China: implications for agricultural sustainability, food security and the environment
… in the Loess Plateau. In Chapter 4, I update the sustainable value approach by a DEA benchmark and apply it to the cropping systems in the Loess Plateau of China to investigate sustainable value and efficiency as measures of sustainability. The cropping systems that contribute the most to …
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Corporate sustainability in China : a content analysis of corporate sustainability reports of SOEs and non-SOEs
… established based on Hart and Milstein’s (2003) sustainable value framework. The results indicated that, incorporating philanthropic initiatives in general and strategic philanthropy in particular can broaden Hart and Milstein’s framework to account for the CS performance observed among Chinese …
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Empowering Place: Unlocking Value for Investors by Integrating Indigenous Values in Luxury Hospitality
… raises a critical question: How and where can value be unlocked in this evolving landscape? This thesis explores how real estate investors can maximize value creation in the luxury hospitality sector by leveraging traditional performance metrics alongside a complementary framework designed to …
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Standards in the data storage industry : emergence, sustainability, and the battle for platform leadership
… industry support and inability at establishing a sustainable value chain. Meanwhile, the industry players rallied around the SNIA body and adopted the SMI specification (SMI-S) as a standard. SMI-S adoption is on the rise, but although it has the formal backing of most of the storage industry …
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Integrated Thinking: Concept, Measurement and Economic Benefits
… more information about how organisations create value. This has led to rapid developments in corporate reporting, particularly the provision of non-financial information relating to an organisation’s sustainability. Integrated Reporting, with its underlying management philosophy of Integrated …
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Study on cultural transformation that drives towards an effective digital transformation of Small Medium Enterprises (SME) in selected states of Malaysia
… business pain points and guide them in achieving sustainable value creation.This research adopts an exploratory sequential mixed-method research design. This research will focus on SMEs, covering both the micro-enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises, in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur as the …
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Components, powers & commitment: Building blocks of business model change for sustainability
Sustainable business models (SBMs) are needed to respond to social and environmental challenges affecting society globally. This is because business models substantially influence activities and relationships in society. In this thesis, through a focus on existing organisations with a predominantly …
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Business Models for Second-life Electric Vehicle Battery Systems
… the sustainability of EVs while generating value for stakeholders across the automotive and energy sectors, as well as for the environment and society (Gohla-Neudecker et al. 2015; Neubauer et al. 2015). However, important knowledge gaps exist as the potential value of second-life batteries …
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An exploration of sustainable business model innovation
… of creating positive social and environmental value. In research years, the field of business models has gained attention in recent years in both the supporting literature and practice. Initially, the concept was mainly used in the context of technology businesses to describe business processes …
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Impact of Technological Advancements on Food Supply Chains
… RPA enables beef 2 supply chains to create sustainable value, and resilience in beef production. The successful adoption of RPA improves beef supply chain performance, efficiency, and sustainability by allowing decision-makers to be more strategic and systematic.<br/>
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Applying water footprint assessment with the aim of achieving sustainable water resource management at a large commercial beef cattle feedlot in Gauteng Province
… There is a spatial disconnect in the production value chain brought about by commercial trends. An on-site water efficiency approach to water resources management of an agri-business does not enable it to evaluate value chain water-related risks, or its' own contribution to sustainable water use …
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Relationships between local communities and protected areas in KwaZulu-Natal: during the apartheid to the post- apartheid era
… of the role of relationships in the benefit and sustainable value of Protected Areas in the study area. Also established by the study is that the exclusion of local communities tends to perpetuate hostile attitudes towards policies and the management of natural resources, thus leading to the …
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Refurbishment of UK state school buildings: A strategy and framework for BIM-based Digital Twinning
… assets and their virtual equivalents for adding sustainable value to projects. However, both BIM and DT suffer from an absence of a strategic approach to dealing with existing buildings. This research was aimed at investigating the role of BIM and Digital Twinning in the refurbishment of existing …
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Cyber-physical systems to monitor the efficiency and sustainability of human-centric manufacturing systems
… of processes but also their core drivers and value propositions. Industry 4.0 unleashes many enabling technologies such as the Internet of Things sensors and machine learning algorithms to boost industries’ productivity through data-driven process monitoring, rather than relying on operation …
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From gut-driven to data-driven: the story of analytics leadership
… comprising four pillars: Actionable Business Value, Data Skills & Processes, Solid Data & Technology Foundation, and a Data-Driven Organisational Culture. It highlights the interconnectedness of technical and human dimensions in building scalable BA capabilities. By addressing challenges such …
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