Crowdfunding for Environmental Sustainability and the Circular Economy
Author: Filippo Corsini
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 3031662113
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Crowdfunding for Environmental Sustainability and the Circular Economy
Author: Filippo Corsini
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2024-10-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783031662102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores how crowdfunding can effectively promote environmental sustainability and circular economy practices in businesses, emphasizing its role in providing crucial financial resources. The importance of financial resources in businesses represents an essential enabler for implementing and scaling sustainable solutions. The book is composed of six chapters, which analyze some key aspects, such as how crowdfunding has been used to develop circular products, success factors for environmental crowdfunding campaigns, the issue of greenwashing in crowdfunding campaigns. By offering a comprehensive and critical analysis of the main issues at stake, this volume provides valuable insights for scholars and students of sustainable business and green finance. The present work also highlights how crowdfunding can help companies to integrate strategies to improve product environmental performance, engage in environmental marketing, and consider alternative business models. Overall, this book is essential to better understand how innovative funding solutions can overcome financial barriers and foster impactful environmental projects.
Sustainable and Efficient Transport
Author: Ellen Eftestøl-Wilhelmsson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1788119282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe EU Commission has set the goal of facilitating a competitive transport system, increasing mobility and supporting growth while simultaneously reaching a target of 60 per cent emissions reductions by 2050. In light of past performance and estimated development, the target will not be reached without further behavioural change in the transport sector. This interdisciplinary book examines how such a behavioural shift can be achieved by various organizational and legal means, focusing primarily on the European Union and its specific policies related to greening transport.
Sustainable Business Change
Author: Vladimir Obradović
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-03-31
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 3031235436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume aims to explore project management contributions to sustainable business change based on renewability, reuse, and repair as well as the effect of circular economy business solutions on project management in terms of the management approach, governance, and leadership. The main aim of integrating project management with a circular business paradigm is not only to learn how project management can contribute to achieving circular economy principles, but also to understand the impact of business needs on project management. By understanding these needs, recommendations can be developed and promoted among different stakeholders such as governments, financial institutions, and education institutions with the goal of supporting and assisting project management to drive sustainable business change. This approach will enable readers to assess how project management professions can support a shift toward sustainable business. The primary audience of this work is management scholars, educators, researchers, and students. Scholars, government representatives, financial institutions, management educators, start-up companies, innovative entrepreneurs, and all others who use the circular economy to support sustainable development can also find much of use in this book.
Sustainable Businesses in Developing Economies
Author: Rajagopal
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 3030516814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrends in cleaner business decisions have resulted in sustainable business models involving society, stakeholders, and consumers. Sustainable choices of companies create competitive differentiations that enable consumers to weigh social values and shift loyalties in the competitive marketplace. This book focuses on sustainability as the pivot of marketing and argues that commitment to sustainability in business not only equips companies to have greater social impact but also inspires an emotional response in consumers that aids companies in growing their image, brands, and socio-political reputations. Exploring topics such as the circular economy, sustainable logistics, eco-innovation, conscious consumption, and social entrepreneurship, the chapters discuss sustainable practices in emerging markets and co-creation between corporations and consumers. This book offers researchers innovative concepts on sustainable business modelling.
Sustainable Development Strategies
Author: Mousumi Roy
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Published: 2020-08-19
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0128189215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSustainable Development Strategies: Engineering, Culture and Economics provides policy guidance on good practice in developing and implementing strategies for sustainable development. The book integrates social, economic and environmental objectives, taking into account of their implications for different socioeconomic groups and for future generations. It examines and analyzes existing and new approaches to formulating a sustainable development strategy and its implementation through both quantitative and qualitative studies. In addition, it looks at the formulation of strategy and overcoming various issues from the standpoint of a diverse set of disciplines, including engineering, economics and social/political views. - Clearly explains the most cutting-edge green technologies and methods for use in built communities - Analyzes existing and new approaches to formulating a sustainable development strategy and its implementation - Helps to facilitate the formulation of effective sustainability strategies through an interdisciplinary approach
Alternative Finance
Author: Mina Fanea-Ivanovici
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-11-06
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1040166482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe alternative financing space has grown exponentially in the last few decades, namely as a consequence of the financial crisis, technological advancement, niche customer segments, and more recently the pandemic. Now, with the inclusion of Fintech, online lenders, crowdfunding, accelerators, venture capitalists, or angel investors, this funding channel is no longer seen as a substitute for formal financing, but rather a core one. This book is a comprehensive guide to alternative financing methods, offering insights into emerging trends, the role of FinTech, and the intersection of finance with sustainability, innovation, and entrepreneurship. It fills a knowledge gap by exploring innovative financing channels such as fintech, green finance, and venture capital as well as other non-traditional ways of raising funds, which have become crucial for startups and businesses. It discusses the impact of financial technology (FinTech) on these methods and their function in supporting entrepreneurship and sustainable business, while also examining the implications of these technological advancements in the wider financial sector. It addresses challenges and opportunities for entrepreneurs and explores how alternative financing options can support growth and innovation, particularly in the context of environmentally and socially focused ventures, including how to integrate economic, social, and environmental considerations. The emphasis on sustainability and green finance aligns with the growing global concern for responsible business practices and the Sustainable Development Goals. While the primary audience for the book is scholars, researchers, and students, the inclusion of case studies, and the exploration of various financing options, extends practical cues for policymakers and practitioners and contributes to the understanding of how finance, entrepreneurship, and sustainability intersect in real-world business scenarios.
OECD SME and Entrepreneurship Outlook 2019
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2019-05-20
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 926435882X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe new OECD SME and Entrepreneurship Outlook presents the latest trends in performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and provides a comprehensive overview of business conditions and policy frameworks for SMEs and entrepreneurs. This year’s edition provides comparative evidence on business dynamism, productivity growth, wage gaps and export trends by firm size across OECD countries and emerging economies.
Digital Economy Post COVID-19 Era
Author: Prashant Mishra
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-12-03
Total Pages: 996
ISBN-13: 9819901979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the future directions of the digital economy post Covid-19 era. The chapters of this book cover contemporary topics on digital economy and digital initiatives undertaken by various organizations. Overall, the book shares insights on how organizations can adapt and transform their processes, structure, and strategies to remain relevant and competitive in the new business and economic environment. These insights also emerge from multidisciplinary discussions in various management domains, such as, consumer behaviour and marketing, economics, finance and accounting, entrepreneurship and small business management, environmental, social and governance compliance, future of work, human resource management, leadership, inclusive workforce, information systems and decision sciences, international business and strategy, and operations and supply chain management.
Challenges and Solutions in the Digital Economy and Finance
Author: Anna Rumyantseva
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-11-04
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 3031144104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents the proceedings of the 4th International Scientific and Practical Conference on Digital Economy and Finances (DEFIN22) at the Saint-Petersburg University of Management Technologies and Economics (UMTE), which took place in March 2022. It includes the newest research on the impact of new digital technologies on the growth and capitalization of companies and the labor market. The volume discusses the problems of situational modeling of economic processes and the creation of "digital twins" of enterprises. The contributions analyse how big data and artificial intelligence technologies are shaping the financial markets.
