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  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,616 Views
13 Pages

23 May 2022

This study aimed to reveal the actual state of Japanese firms’ logistics outsourcing, and examine their relationship with LSPs. This study addressed the following issues by conducting a case study of six leading manufacturing firms. First, it c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,120 Views
12 Pages

2 November 2023

Over the last decade, authorities in several Western countries have stated their ambitions to increase the share of volunteers contributing alongside professionals in the future long-term care (LTC) sector, but the introduction of volunteers as co-pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,893 Views
14 Pages

The Impact of Long-Term Care Home Ownership and Administration Type on All-Cause Mortality from March to April 2020 in Madrid, Spain

  • Maria Victoria Zunzunegui,
  • Manuel Rico,
  • François Béland and
  • Fernando J. García-López

Our aim is to assess whether long-term care home (LTCH) ownership and administration type were associated with all-cause mortality in 470 LTCHs in the Community of Madrid (Spain) during March and April 2020, the first two months of the COVID-19 pande...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,891 Views
10 Pages

23 December 2018

The motivations for individual and corporate donations to non-profit organisations (NPOs) have been vastly researched. However, companies tend to diversify their donations towards different institutions, hindering the development of substantial and c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,358 Views
19 Pages

Upscaling Groundnut Seed Production and Delivery through Long-Term Public–Private and Development Organization Partnerships: Experiences from Tanzania

  • Asha Ally Hatibu,
  • Essegbemon Akpo,
  • Gerald Alex Lukurugu,
  • Joseph Nzunda,
  • Patrick Okori and
  • Chris O. Ojiewo

Making quality seed of improved legume varieties sustainably available and accessible to farmers in a timely manner and at affordable price is a major challenge in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Overcoming this challenge requires collective and long-term...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,835 Views
27 Pages

3 June 2021

Projects are considered crucial building blocks whereby organizations execute and implement their short-, mid-, and long-term strategic visions. Projects are thought, developed, and implemented to solve problems, drive change, satisfy unique needs, a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,060 Views
16 Pages

NeuroTec Sitem-Insel Bern: Closing the Last Mile in Neurology

  • Kaspar A. Schindler,
  • Tobias Nef,
  • Maxime O. Baud,
  • Athina Tzovara,
  • Gürkan Yilmaz,
  • Gerd Tinkhauser,
  • Stephan M. Gerber,
  • Oriella Gnarra,
  • Jan D. Warncke and
  • Narayan Schütz
  • + 7 authors

Neurology is focused on a model where patients receive their care through repeated visits to clinics and doctor’s offices. Diagnostic tests often require expensive and specialized equipment that are only available in clinics. However, this current mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,845 Views
17 Pages

Modeling Partners’ Behavior in Long-Lasting B2B Supply Chain Relationships

  • Carlos Ferro-Soto,
  • Carmen Padín,
  • Carmen Otero-Neira and
  • Göran Svensson

26 January 2024

Companies have strengthened their long-term inter-organizational partnerships throughout the supply chain to neutralize competitive pressures and risks in uncertain environments. On this basis, this research aims to propose and test a model of partne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
7,047 Views
16 Pages

9 September 2021

This novel research looked into the role of public-private partnership investment in energy in affecting Pakistan’s long-term environmental sustainability. Employing time series data from 1992 to 2018 and utilizing the autoregressive distributive lag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,139 Views
15 Pages

10 March 2021

Environmental sustainability is an important issue for current scholars and policymakers in the East Asian and Pacific region. The causal and long-run effects of technological innovation, public–private partnership investment in energy, and renewable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,608 Views
12 Pages

28 September 2019

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of partner firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities on long-term relationships in business-to-business (B2B) industries. We developed a research model to capture the correlat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,229 Views
13 Pages

29 November 2023

Scholarship in pilgrimage studies suggests that people use travel to sacred sites to mark life transitions such as moving into adulthood, retirement, the death of a loved one, or the ending of an intimate relationship. This research has also illustra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,470 Views
16 Pages

16 October 2019

After the policy of separating ownership rights, contract rights, and management rights to rural land, some Chinese farmers entrusted their land to agricultural social service providers. However, at present in land trusteeships, short-term behaviors...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,647 Views
18 Pages

10 October 2018

This study illustrates how partnerships in asymmetric power relationships, such as social enterprises and large established firms, can be made in the context of social partnership. We acknowledge that partnerships with large corporations can help soc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,683 Views
17 Pages

Real-Time Evaluation of City–University Partnerships for Sustainability and Resilience

  • Liliana Caughman,
  • Lauren Withycombe Keeler and
  • Fletcher Beaudoin

22 October 2020

Cities face many challenges in their efforts to create more sustainable and resilient urban environments for their residents. Among these challenges is the structure of city administrations themselves. Partnerships between cities and universities are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,161 Views
17 Pages

Long-Term Quality of Life after COVID-19 Infection: Cross-Sectional Study of Health Care Workers

  • Moussa Antar,
  • Hansjoerg Ullerich,
  • Andreas Zaruchas,
  • Torsten Meier,
  • Ricarda Diller,
  • Ulrich Pannewick and
  • Sameer A. Dhayat

(1) Background: Post-COVID syndrome is defined as symptoms that occur simultaneously with or after a COVID-19 infection, last for 12 weeks, and are not due to another diagnosis. Limited data are available on people’s long-term quality of life followi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,736 Views
15 Pages

15 September 2022

Background: Strategic alliance is a popular strategic option for business entities to strengthen the competitive advantages of all partners in a partnership. The global logistics industry has witnessed the formulation of several successful strategic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,560 Views
29 Pages

Activating Partnership Assets to Produce Synergy in Primary Health Care: A Mixed Methods Study

  • Ekaterina Loban,
  • Catherine Scott,
  • Virginia Lewis,
  • Susan Law and
  • Jeannie Haggerty

18 August 2021

Partnerships are an important mechanism to tackle complex problems that extend beyond traditional organizational divides. Partnerships are widely endorsed, but there is a need to strengthen the evidence base relating to claims of their effectiveness....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,294 Views
19 Pages

As the air–rail integration continues to emerge around the globe, the successful and maintainable implementation of such schemes can be influenced by many factors within administrative, social, infrastructural, and economic aspects. With the ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
95 Citations
16,974 Views
22 Pages

10 September 2019

Recent scientific reports highlight the urgent need for transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and long-term sustainability. This paper presents a new approach to partnerships that focuses on their role in transformations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,534 Views
20 Pages

16 July 2019

Using the 2008 Zaragoza International Exhibition “Water and sustainable development” as a case study, this paper aims to respond to the increasing demand for measurements of the effects and the implications of the performance of cross-sec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,641 Views
19 Pages

Using a panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model, this study examines the effects of the adoption of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) on the digital economy of Saudi Arabia, using monthly data from 2015 to 2024 from the World Develo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,137 Views
9 Pages

Building Collaborative Health Promotion Partnerships: The Jackson Heart Study

  • Clifton C. Addison,
  • Brenda W. Campbell Jenkins,
  • Darcel Odom,
  • Marty Fortenberry,
  • Gregory Wilson,
  • Lavon Young and
  • Donna Antoine-LaVigne

Building Collaborative Health Promotion Partnerships: The Jackson Heart Study. Background: Building a collaborative health promotion partnership that effectively employs principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR) involves many dimens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,208 Views
19 Pages

People experiencing homelessness and alcohol dependence are at increased risk of a range of harms, including from COVID-19. Managed Alcohol Programmes (MAPs) are an alcohol harm reduction intervention specifically for this group. In this paper we rep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,656 Views
27 Pages

Effects of Contract Governance on the Relation of Partnership Critical Success Factors and the Performance of Malaysia Public-Private Partnership Initiatives

  • Azlan Shah Abdul Latif,
  • Noor Azman Ali,
  • Zahira Ishan,
  • Nor Siah Jaharuddin,
  • Rohail Hassan and
  • Adibah Abdul Latif

Much research has been carried out to discover partnership critical success factors that influence public-private partnership success. Since most public-private partnership projects are long-term in nature and include contractual arrangements, there...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,556 Views
17 Pages

14 February 2022

Community–university partnerships that purport to promote the public good are often fraught with institutional and cultural challenges that can contribute to the injustices they seek to address. This paper describes how one partnership has been...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,512 Views
19 Pages

Gender Gaps in Mode Usage, Vehicle Ownership, and Spatial Mobility When Entering Parenthood: A Life Course Perspective

  • Hung-Chia Yang,
  • Ling Jin,
  • Alina Lazar,
  • Annika Todd-Blick,
  • Alex Sim,
  • Kesheng Wu,
  • Qianmiao Chen and
  • C. Anna Spurlock

20 June 2023

Entry into parenthood is a major disruptive event to travel behavior, and gender gaps in mobility choices are often widened during parenthood. The exact timing of gender gap formation and their long-term effects on different subpopulations are less s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,747 Views
25 Pages

Repairing Political Trust for Practical Sustainability

  • Robert Weymouth,
  • Janette Hartz-Karp and
  • Dora Marinova

29 August 2020

High levels of trust in government are important in addressing complex issues, including the realization of the mainstream sustainability agenda. However, trust in government has been declining for decades across the western world, undermining legiti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
970 Views
17 Pages

13 October 2025

This study analyses the factors influencing renewable energy infrastructure public–private partnership (PPP) financing, using data from 28 countries covering the period from 1996 to 2024. A composite institutional quality index was constructed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,010 Views
14 Pages

11 March 2021

Committed Business-to-Business (B2B) relationships are linked to sustainable business partnerships and greater profitability. As competition increases, suppliers must seek to differentiate by shifting the focus of their offerings from the product to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,643 Views
17 Pages

5 July 2022

This paper presents the positive experience of facilitating over 300 community-engaged engineering projects at an Irish higher-education institution. The projects are framed by a research orientation, a commitment to civic engagement, and building un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
147 Citations
29,304 Views
23 Pages

Designing Sustainable HRM: The Core Characteristics of Emerging Field

  • Živilė Stankevičiūtė and
  • Asta Savanevičienė

16 December 2018

The common agreement in human resource management (HRM) literature suggests that organizations willing to attract and retain human resources for running business in the future must change the prevailing situation where human resources are rather cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,534 Views
19 Pages

Energy Performance Contracting and Public-Private Partnership: How to Share Risks and Balance Benefits

  • Laura Martiniello,
  • Donato Morea,
  • Francesco Paolone and
  • Riccardo Tiscini

14 July 2020

Public private partnerships (PPPs) are a well-known instrument used worldwide by public administration (PA) to build public infrastructure using private knowhow and financial resources, and sharing risks. In recent years, PPPs have been widely adopte...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1,388 Views
24 Pages

10 September 2025

The proliferation of diverse multi-stakeholder partnering arrangements that seek to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has prompted calls for overarching standards to enhance their governance, legitimacy and effectiveness. This conce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,775 Views
26 Pages

The Asia-Pacific region has gradually become a driver of global economic growth, with economic integration agreements (EIAs) and climate distance playing increasingly important roles in the agri-food trade in the 21st century. The recent signing and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,183 Views
17 Pages

27 September 2023

The purpose of this paper is to examine and advocate for the consideration of relevant approaches that can be utilized to increase the effectiveness of cognitive dissonance-based interventions (DBIs) designed to promote health equity. Although DBIs i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,211 Views
27 Pages

18 April 2022

This study conducted a holistic analysis of selected public-led regeneration projects carried out in different ways in rural and fishing villages in Korea, in line with current trends based on place-keeping theory, which reflects the long-term perspe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,017 Views
12 Pages

17 February 2021

There has been an increasing focus on the potential of city-based initiatives to address the negative impacts of the global food system. Adopting a meso-level policy perspective, this study aimed to explore whether, how, and why the UK non-government...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,164 Views
19 Pages

The aim of our study was to explore the conceptions related to partnership between dance sport couples. We conducted in-depth interviews with 20 registered athletes of the Chinese Dance Sports Federation (CDSF) about partnership between dance couples...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,726 Views
14 Pages

University Community Partnerships

  • Jonathan G. Cooper,
  • Zeenat Kotval-K,
  • Zenia Kotval and
  • John Mullin

11 March 2014

University-Community Partnerships have been recognized as a valuable contribution to both the academic community and our cities and towns. In the words of Henry Cisneros, former U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Design secretary, “The long-term fu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
13,681 Views
8 Pages

23 June 2020

Abstract: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has overwhelmed many national healthcare systems around the world. In attempts to meet their emergency needs and mitigate escalating challenges, governments are increasingly reaching out to the private se...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,109 Views
16 Pages

Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia in the Real World: Understanding Outcome Differences and How We Can Improve Them

  • Aram Bidikian,
  • Jan Philipp Bewersdorf,
  • Tariq Kewan,
  • Maximilian Stahl and
  • Amer M. Zeidan

6 December 2024

The advent of all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and arsenic trioxide (ATO) has revolutionized the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), resulting in excellent rates of remission and long-term survival. However, real-world outcomes often fall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,169 Views
17 Pages

Evaluating the Impact of University-Led Experiential Learning on Rural Development and Sustainable Manufacturing in Louisiana

  • Mysha Ahmed,
  • Fatemeh Ghafari,
  • Zhihong Pang,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Chandler Hayes,
  • Jonathan Shi and
  • Michael Hayes

25 August 2025

This paper seeks to establish the impact of university experiential learning programs on small- to medium-sized enterprises while emphasizing the benefit to rural workforce development and sustainable manufacturing practices. Data were collected from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
10,827 Views
13 Pages

19 January 2015

Micronutrient deficiencies remain a significant public health issue in Southeast Asia, particularly in vulnerable populations, such as women of reproductive age and young children. An important nutrition-specific intervention to address micronutrient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,241 Views
22 Pages

Optimized Downlink Scheduling over LTE Network Based on Artificial Neural Network

  • Falah Y. H. Ahmed,
  • Amal Abulgasim Masli,
  • Bashar Khassawneh,
  • Jabar H. Yousif and
  • Dilovan Asaad Zebari

7 September 2023

Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology is utilized efficiently for wireless broadband communication for mobile devices. It provides flexible bandwidth and frequency with high speed and peak data rates. Optimizing resource allocation is vital for improv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
575 Views
26 Pages

REN+HOMES Positive Carbon Building Methodology in Co-Design with Residents

  • Dorin Beu,
  • Alessio Pacchiana,
  • Elena Rastei,
  • Horaţiu Albu and
  • Theodor Contolencu

This article demonstrates how positioning residents as active co-designers fundamentally transforms both the process and outcomes of carbon-positive building development. Through structured collaborative workshops, shared decision-making protocols, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
13,499 Views
19 Pages

Assessment of Public–Private Partnership in Municipal Solid Waste Management in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

  • Vin Spoann,
  • Takeshi Fujiwara,
  • Bandith Seng,
  • Chanthy Lay and
  • Mongtoeun Yim

26 February 2019

The overall responsibility for waste management in Phnom Penh Capital (PPC) has rested with the municipal authorities and contracted waste collection companies. Providing waste collection services is a major challenge for Phnom Penh due to the increa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,724 Views
18 Pages

26 November 2021

International esteem for Galápagos’ natural wonders and the democratization of travel have contributed to a 300% increase in annual tourist entries to the archipelago from 2000 (68,989) to 2018 (275,817). The attendant spike in tourism-r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,412 Views
27 Pages

23 February 2023

As research related to the clean use of primary energy and new energy technologies continues to intensify in countries around the world, biomass energy has been incorporated into the long-term development plans of many countries for energy use due to...

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