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Orchestrating place-based micro-missions: the grand challenge of decarbonisation at Shoreham Port
ABSTRACT Climate change has led governments to adopt mission-oriented policies targeting net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. Heavy industry accounts for almost one-sixth of global emissions, making industrial decarbonisation central to this agenda. Though emissions impacts are global, decarbonisation unfolds locally. Yet how place-based micro-missions – small-scale experimental initiatives targeting concrete, localised challenges – are orchestrated in practice remains poorly understood.
Better Than the Truth: From AI Hallucinations to Imaginations
There is ongoing concern that AI chatbots often “hallucinate” despite becoming more powerful. Hallucinations are instances where AI produces false and often misleading information. This may happen because of limited training data and because AI has the tendency to give answers that seem likely and coherent, even if they are not based on empirical truth. Even though hallucinations have become less frequent for short-answer lookups, they continue to occur quite often in complex research tasks.
We’re failing to solve the world’s ‘wicked problems.’ Here’s a better approach
The EU refugee crisis, the topic of a recent U.N. summit, is a good example: Driven by regional conflicts and poverty, and assisted by trafficking networks, people from Africa and the Middle East continue to take enormous risks to enter EU territory by land or sea. For several years now, thousands of refugees have died on this journey each year and no solution is in sight.
We’re failing to solve the world’s ‘wicked problems.’ Here’s a better approach
What do these problems have in common? They resist any simple solution. In policy research they are called “wicked.” This is because cause-effect relations are complex and solutions unclear; many of these problems are urgent, yet there is no central authority to solve them; their magnitude is often hard to estimate; and those trying to solve them may even contribute to causing them.
We’re failing to solve the world’s ‘wicked problems.’ Here’s a better approach
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Experimentation and Learning in Business Model Innovation for Sustainability in Incumbent Firms: An Integrative Review
1 Introduction The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued stark warnings about rising carbon emissions as various sustainability targets approach their deadlines, i.e., 2030 for the UN's SDGs and 2050 for Net Zero. Yet, despite the warnings and approaching deadlines, the change that contributes to sustainable development has been rather slow from all participating actors (governments and businesses alike).
Why global firms are pushed to take sides in wars, and how they can avoid it
Russia's war against Ukraine has changed how global firms respond to geopolitical events. Whereas in the past foreign companies often preferred to stay neutral in times of war, now they increasingly take sides. When Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago, global firms like Google and Amazon were swift to offer support to Ukraine with donations and supplies. Others, like Renault and Deutsche Bank, harmed the Russian economy by suspending operations and investment.
Why global firms are pushed to take sides in wars, and how they can avoid it Original
Russia’s war against Ukraine has changed how global firms respond to geopolitical events. Whereas in the past foreign companies often preferred to stay neutral in times of war, now they increasingly take sides. When Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago, global firms like Google and Amazon were swift to offer support to Ukraine with donations and supplies. Others, like Renault and Deutsche Bank, harmed the Russian economy by suspending operations and investment.
Towards a Synergistic Multi‐stakeholder Approach to CSR in Crisis: Learning from Large Global Firms’ Responses to COVID‐19
Introduction Crises and external shocks require specific strategic responses from firms (Wenzel, Stanske and Lieberman, 2021).
Creating Powerful Stories: What Scholars Can Learn from Filmmakers
INTRODUCTION Writing compelling and impactful academic articles is hard. For years, senior scholars and journal editors have urged us to combine rigorous research with vivid writing. Engaging the reader requires narratives that are convincing, reflexive and imaginative. Yet, the reality is that most academic papers are rather formulaic and far from engaging. Sure, we cite each other a lot, but do we really enjoy reading each other's work?
Transforming Local Communities Through Artistic Leadership
Addressing entrenched social problems in local communities like inequality, violence, or environmental degradation is as much about changing local cultures and mindsets as it is about reworking the socioeconomic structures around them. Cultural norms and values, such as gender roles and attitudes toward nature, guide economic and social interactions in communities. Challenging or redirecting established values is therefore at the heart of structural change.
Kenya and South Africa offer insights into digital economy challenges and alternatives
The World Bank is warning of the real danger of a massive economic downturn across the world. In a it warned that many countries - including those in sub-Saharan Africa - will be facing economic challenges due to rising food and fuel prices. At the same time, however, there is unshakeable optimism around the growth potential of African economies as a whole and specifically the digital economy.
Kenya and South Africa offer insights into digital economy challenges and alternatives
The World Bank is warning of the real danger of a massive economic downturn across the world. In a recent analysis it warned that many countries – including those in sub-Saharan Africa – will be facing economic challenges due to rising food and fuel prices. At the same time, however, there is unshakeable optimism around the growth potential of African economies as a whole and specifically the digital economy.
South Africa: Kenya and South Africa Offer Insights Into Digital Economy Failures
South Africa: Kenya and South Africa Offer Insights Into Digital Economy Failures analysis By Stephan Manning The World Bank is warning of the real danger of a massive economic downturn across the world. In a it warned that many countries - including those in sub-Saharan Africa - will be facing economic challenges due to rising food and fuel prices.
Kenya and South Africa offer insights into digital economy failures
The World Bank is warning of the real danger of a massive economic downturn across the world. In a it warned that many countries – including those in sub-Saharan Africa – will be facing economic challenges due to rising food and fuel prices. At the same time, however, there is unshakeable optimism around the growth potential of African economies as a whole and specifically the digital economy.
A better approach to solving the world's 'wicked problems'
We live in a world burdened by large-scale problems that refuse to go away: the refugee crisis; terrorism; rising sea levels; frequent floods, droughts and wildfires; not to mention persistent inequality and violation of basic human rights across the world.What do these problems have in common? They resist any simple solution.
Presidential Candidates Want to Bring Back Millions of Outsourced Jobs
One of the big themes in the current presidential race is how decades of free trade have dealt a heavy blow to the U.S. worker as millions of jobs were shipped overseas to take advantage of cheap labor. That’s even turned some pro free-trade Republicans into protectionists. As a result, the candidates are promising to bring these jobs back to the United States—whether by lowering taxes (Donald Trump), improving skills (Hillary Clinton) or building infrastructure (Bernie Sanders).
Trump and Clinton Wantto Bring Back Millions of Outsourced Jobs - Here's Why They Can't
One of the big themes in the current presidential race is how decades of free trade have dealt a heavy blow to the American worker as millions of jobs were shipped overseas to take advantage of cheap labor. That’s even turned some pro free-trade Republicans into protectionists. As a result, the candidates are promising to bring these jobs back to the U.S. – whether by lowering taxes (Donald Trump), improving skills (Hillary Clinton) or building infrastructure (Bernie Sanders).
Trump and Clinton Want to Bring Back Millions of Outsourced Jobs - Here’s Why They Can’t
Trump and Clinton Want to Bring Back Millions of Outsourced Jobs – Here’s Why They Can’t Many of those jobs are pretty much gone for good and it has a lot to do with how the global economy works. One of the big themes in the current presidential race is how decades of free trade have dealt a heavy blow to the American worker as millions of jobs were shipped overseas to take advantage of cheap labor. That’s even turned some pro free-trade Republicans into protectionists.
Trump Can’t Bring Back Our Jobs
Offshoring of manufacturing took off in the 1980s, followed by offshoring of business services and knowledge work in the 1990s and 2000s. Labor-cost advantages, increasing availability of qualified personnel abroad, and advanced information and communication technology have made it attractive to create more jobs abroad rather than at home. Free trade agreements and the collapse of the Iron Curtain have also played a huge role.
Trump and Clinton want to bring back millions of outsourced jobs - here's why they can't
One of the big themes in the current presidential race is how decades of free trade have dealt a heavy blow to the American worker as millions of jobs were shipped overseas to take advantage of cheap labor. That's even turned some pro free-trade Republicans into protectionists. As a result, the candidates are promising to bring these jobs back to the United States – whether by lowering taxes (Donald Trump), improving skills (Hillary Clinton) or building infrastructure (Bernie Sanders).
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