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Nudging the Last Mile: Combining Behavioral Insights and Monetary Incentives for Sustainable Delivery Choices
Full text linkLast mile delivery, the final leg of the supply chain to consumers, significantly impacts the en- vironment. The role of consumers’ behavior in this process, has been relatively overlooked and their willingness to find a trade-off between the benefits of home delivery and the impact on the environment has been neglected; behavioral logistics aims to optimize supply chain operations by understanding and influencing human behavior, enhancing efficiency and sustainability. Consumer behavior within the grocery sector is influenced by a myriad of factors and the rise of environ- mental awareness among consumers provides an opportunity to impact their preferences, steering them towards more sustainable last mile delivery options. The importance of home deliveries in the grocery sector has surged, especially post-pandemic; grocery stores adapt to this trend, focusing on efficient last mile delivery to meet changing consumer demands. By utilizing the experimental economics methodology tailored to the grocery sector, this research systematically examines the impact of financial incentives and nudges on last mile delivery choices. The controlled environment offers valuable insights into consumer responses to various incentive structures, helping to shape strategies that maximize both environmental benefits and economic sustainability. The findings underscore the interplay between environmental sustainability, consumer behavior, financial incen- tives, and nudges in the last mile delivery of groceries providing valuable insights for businesses, policymakers, and consumers in their collective endeavor to build a more sustainable and efficient last mile delivery system
HOW DO DIFFERENT VC INVESTORS FINANCE SUSTAINABLE STARTUPS? THE MODERATING ROLE OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
No full textSustainable startups are recognized as pivotal in providing green technologies to tackle climate change. However, since they are characterized by unfavorable financial conditions, attracting venture capitalists (VCs) is vital for them. Different VCs such as independent venture capitalists (IVCs) and corporate venture capitalists (CVCs) have different approaches when taking investment decisions. Thus, this paper aims at exploring the relationship between VCs financing and sustainable startups, by discerning the differences in the investment decisions between IVCs and CVCs. Moreover, since governments promote investments in sustainable startups, this paper also aims to understand how different environmental policies intervene in the investment decisions of IVCs and CVCs in sustainable startups. Our preliminary results show that IVCs invest lower amounts of money in sustainable startups, while CVCs are willing to commit high amounts of money to sustainable startups. Moreover, we found that environmental policies play a moderating role in the investment decisions of IVCs and CVCs investing in sustainable startups. Our findings attempt to both extend previous literature and provide implications for startups’ managers and for policymakers tackling climate change
HOW DO ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY MECHANISMS INTERVENE IN THE IVCs AND CVCs DECISIONS TO INVEST IN SUSTAINABLE STARTUPS?
Full text linkSustainable startups have been recognized as crucial actors in fighting climate change and develop new technologies to reduce environmental harm (Bendig et al., 2022; Hegeman and Sørheim, 2021). Indeed, sustainable startups have critical capabilities and technical know-how to carry out the development of clean and green technologies to achieve sustainable change (Hockerts and Wüstenhagen, 2010). To survive and market such technologies sustainable startups need to overcome their unfavorable financial conditions by attracting external funding from Venture Capitalists (VCs), which have been largely recognized as the main catalyst for sustainable startups’ success (e.g., Wöhler and Haase, 2022). Specifically, sustainable startups as the opportunities to attract funding from different kinds of VCs, such as independent venture capitalists (IVCs) and corporate venture capitalists (CVCs) (e.g., Cumming et al., 2016; Bürer and Wüstenhagen, 2009; Polzin, 2017; Hegeman and Sørheim, 2021). Previous scholars have revealed that while CVCs are increasingly investing in sustainable startups, they represent a less attractive investment alternative than conventional ones for IVCs (Hegeman and Sørheim, 2021; Wöhler and Haase, 2022). Indeed, since IVCs usually aim to gain extraordinary and short-term return, the high technological risk and the very long development times characterizing green technologies may discourage them (Beise and Rennings, 2005). Moreover, IVCs may avoid investments in sustainable startups since the financial opportunities of green technologies cannot be totally captured due to their public nature (Cumming et al., 2016). Conversely, CVCs are strongly motivated to fund sustainable startups by the strategic value of the opportunities associated to clean and green technologies, which allow CVCs to improve their environmental performance and promote corporate greening in customers’ eyes for sustaining their competitive positions (Hegeman and Sørheim, 2021).
All these things considered it is evident that , in accordance with their investment objectives, IVCs and CVCs have diverse investing inclinations toward sustainable startups. We reason that differences in the investment inclinations of IVCs and CVCs toward sustainable startups may also be explained by other exogenous factors such as national and international policies, which often
focus on promoting sustainability. Current literature has already demonstrated that investments in sustainability can be stimulated by several environmental policy mechanisms such as feed-in tariffs, environmental taxes, emission trading schemes, emission limits and R&D subsidies (Bürer and Wüstenhagen, 2009; Polzin et al., 2017; Criscuolo and Menon, 2015; Bianchini and Croce, 2022).
However, there is no evidence on how these policy mechanisms intervene in the inclinations of diverse VCs investors toward funding sustainable startups. Thus, this paper aims to better understand the role of national and international policies in the VCs financing by exploring how diverse environmental policy mechanisms intervene in the VCs investments inclinations toward sustainable startups, by discerning the effect on IVCs and CVCs
Linking Circular Business Models With Value Sources: A Cluster‐Based Literature Review
Full text linkCircular Business Models (CBMs) are critical to advancing the Circular Economy (CE), receiving significant attention from policymakers and corporations alike. Despite this, the conceptual clarity of CBMs remains underdeveloped. This paper presents a systematic literature review of CBM, focusing on definitions, drivers, barriers, and value creation. We identify three primary clusters: CBM concept, CBM transformation, and CBM strategies. Key gaps in the literature are highlighted, with particular regard to market value creation, comprehensive business model framework, and firm maturity. To address these gaps, we propose a framework linking CBM strategies with value sources, offering a more cohesive understanding of circularity within business models. This framework aims to guide future research and practical implementation across various firm maturity stages
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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