Institutional Pressures and Circular Economy Target Performance: Are Zero Waste Practices and Enviropreneurship Worth Pursuing?

Waste and circular economy

Consumers’ Perspective on Circular Economy Strategy for Reducing Food Waste

The current linear system of production and consumption is unsustainable. In the food sector, despite the fact that valuable natural resources are intensively used to produce and distribute food products, little is done to upcycle residues generated along the supply chain. Circular economy strategies are crucial for restructuring the take-make-dispose model through the active participation of a...

Is Structure-From-Motion Worth Pursuing?

Structure-from-motion is the problem of recovering the motion of a camera and the shape of objects in front of it from the images that the camera produces. If vision is to compute a representation of the world from images, structurefrom-motion is undeniably a central problem. Yet decades of research have shown that this computation is very sensitive to errors in image measurements, both random ...

Institutional Pressures and Organizational Response

By investigating the business environment in Sub-Saharan Africa from an institutional theory perspective, the purpose of this thesis is to explain organizational response to the forces of this particular institutional environment. Coercive, normative and mimetic pressures serve as the basis for explaining the institutional environment. The organizations respond to these pressures by seeking leg...

Institutional Quality, Natural Resource Rent, and Shadow Economy

Natural resource rent affects countries’ economies through various channels. Revenues from the natural resources sales are expected to boost countries' economic growth, but the economic experience of recent decades reveals the numerous economic problems in these countries, the most important of which may be the increase in the shadow economy size. Moreover, the institutions specify the signific...