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Innovating Sustainability Through
Digital Circular Economy

Innovating Sustainability Through Digital Circular Economy

Sustainable business is no longer optional--it's the strategy that will determine who leads and who gets left behind.Climate change is not just a future threat--it's a current reality, reshaping markets, supply chains, and entire industries. Rising temperatures, resource scarcity, and mounting waste are driving regulatory pressure, investor scrutiny, and consumer demand for sustainable practices. For business leaders, this isn't just an operational challenge--it's a strategic disruption. Companies that fail to adapt risk being swept aside by forces they can no longer ignore.In The Ultimate Disruption: Rethinking Business in a World Transformed by Climate Change, INSEAD professors Atalay Atasu and Luk Van Wassenhove provide an essential road map for thriving in this new era. Drawing on decades of research and real-world case studies, they show why sustainability must be treated as a core business imperative, not a compliance exercise or marketing slogan. The authors introduce a framework for rethinking strategy, redefining value propositions, and reinventing business models to integrate environmental value alongside customer utility and profit.Through compelling examples--from Polygreen's zero-waste transformation on a Greek island to Schneider Electric's global decarbonization initiatives--the book illustrates how companies are turning environmental constraints into opportunities for innovation and growth. Each chapter tackles critical steps: building the business case for sustainability; revisiting value potential; overcoming operational and scaling challenges; and leveraging partnerships, tech, and new business models to deliver shared value and profitability.Sustainability is no longer a cost--it's a competitive advantage. The Ultimate Disruption equips leaders with the strategies and tools to navigate the climate-driven transformation of business ecosystems and emerge stronger than ever.

Rethinking Business in a World Transformed by Climate Change

The Ultimate Disruption

Sustainable Narratives and Visions of Change

Remaking Fashion Media

Introduces a data-driven framework for measuring governance through a fourteen-component Macro-Governance Index, demonstrating its strong predictive power for national development outcomes and offering practical tools to diagnose governance gaps and guide policy interventions.
Every year, governments borrow trillions, spend billions on development programs, and publish volumes of economic statistics-yet no widely accepted framework exists for answering a deceptively simple question: is governance actually working? Traditional approaches rely on subjective expert assessments or narrowly focused indices that measure inputs rather than outcomes. Macro-Governance Theory proposes that governance can be measured with the same empirical rigor we bring to medicine, engineering, and economics-and that doing so is essential if citizens and policymakers are to hold institutions accountable for results. 

Drawing on 26 years of publicly available data across 170 countries, the book constructs the Macro-Governance Index (MGI)-a fourteen-component composite spanning infrastructure, connectivity, financial inclusion, human capital, security, institutional quality, and economic integration. The MGI correlates with the UN Human Development Index at r = 0.97, and this relationship is not driven by income alone: controlling for GNI, the framework retains substantial independent predictive power, confirming that governance infrastructure-not just wealth-determines whether nations deliver well-being to their citizens. 

The book reveals patterns that conventional measures miss. Novel metrics for credit access and household-level financial reach show that the effective economic gap between the Global North and Sub-Saharan Africa is approximately 70× rather than the 53× that standard income comparisons suggest-a hidden disparity with profound implications for development policy. A governance simulation framework models how investments in one dimension cascade through others, enabling policymakers to identify the highest-leverage interventions for their country's specific development stage. 

Seven detailed case studies-Singapore, Rwanda, Estonia, Botswana, Chile, Costa Rica, and Lebanon-demonstrate how the framework diagnoses governance strengths and weaknesses in practice. An analysis of the ten fastest-rising nations reveals that while successful governance strategies differ radically across political systems, they share common patterns in infrastructure sequencing and institutional development that the MGI captures and quantifies. 

Designed for dual utility, the book serves as an analytical framework for researchers and policymakers and as an accessible assessment tool for citizens through the companion website grademygovernment.com. A full reproducibility dataset covering all 170 countries across seven benchmark years is included, making this not just an argument for governance science but its working prototype.

A Data-Driven Framework for Measuring and Improving Governance Across Nations

Macro-Governance Theory

Corporatism and Neoliberalism in a Global Era

The World Economic Forum and COVID-19

Comparative Global Insights

Policies for Productivity

Synthesis Lectures on Operations Research and Applications

From Centralized to Decentralized Operations

The Science of Flexibility in Mobility

Developments and Advances in the Supply Chain Industry

Circular Economy and Digital Technologies in Supply Chains: Transformations for Sustainability explores the intersection of circular economy practices and digital technologies, offering a comprehensive roadmap to enhance sustainability in supply chain operations. The book covers essential topics such as the fundamentals of sustainable supply chain management, strategies for implementing circular economy practices, and the role of digital technologies like blockchain and AI in enhancing transparency and performance. Each chapter examines key areas such as recycling, remanufacturing, green logistics, and environmental responsibility, providing readers with actionable insights. Real-world case studies illustrate the successful adoption of these transformative strategies. This is an essential resource for researchers, academicians, and post-graduate students focused on circular economy and sustainable supply chain management. Policymakers, governmental bodies, international NGOs, consultants, and start-ups will also find valuable insights into the policy implications and regulatory frameworks that empower the transition to digital and circular supply chains. By integrating emerging technologies with sustainability practices, this book equips readers with the knowledge to innovate and lead in the evolving landscape of supply chain management.

Transformations for Sustainability

Circular Economy and Digital Technologies in Supply Chains

This collective volume re-evaluates Joseph Nye's concept of soft power, arguing that its original Western, liberal framework no longer aligns with twenty-first-century multipolarity. While historically linked to post-Cold War American hegemony, soft power has shifted due to the rise of non-Western actors, including China, Turkey, Japan, Vietnam and Russia, which project influence through regional narratives rather than universal norms. These emerging powers often leverage culture, economic support, technological export, and anti-colonial memory to challenge Western influence. Consequently, the traditional distinction between soft and hard power is progressively blurred, as cultural influence is now deeply intertwined with strategic competition. The book concludes that modern global influence is increasingly derived from embodying distinct, non-Western alternatives, transforming soft power into a tool for geopolitical competition rather than universalistic persuasion. Contributors Garnik S. Asatrian, Georgi Asatryan, Maria Chizhevskaya, Mahesh Ranjan Debata, Nina Grigoreva, Alena Korobochkina, Svetlana Krivokhizh, Mher D. Sahakyan, Elena Soboleva, Maria Soloshcheva, and Evgeny Zelenev.

Soft Power Beyond the West

A fairer, healthier, more caring and sustainable society is entirely within our grasp. The renowned co-author of The Spirit Level shows us the way.'An uplifting vision for solving inequality that benefits everyone' ANDY BURNHAM'Poverty and inequality are at the heart of all our problems. Kate Pickett's book shows how tackling them must be at the heart of our solutions too' ZACK POLANSKI'Just what these times are crying out for' KATE RAWORTHHow do we ensure that everyone has good health and receives the care they need? How do we provide education that allows every child to flourish? How do we ensure safety, justice and a sustainable environment for all?In this inspiring book, world-leading social scientist Kate Pickett shows that to make a good society - in which everyone has what they need to be well, and everyone would be better off - we must prioritise the health, care, education and rehabilitation of those who have the least and suffer the most. Drawing on decades of proven solutions and success stories from around the globe, The Good Society cuts to the essence of the challenges we face and presents us with a practical, perspective-shifting vision for how to tackle them.'Genuinely transformative. A powerful and deeply humane vision that focuses on what really matters' DANIEL CHANDLER'Daringly optimistic' FINANCIAL TIMES'Electrifying' POLLY MORLAND'Vital ... shines a light for hope' INDEPENDENT

And How We Make It

The Good Society

Platform Supply Chains in the AI Era

This open access book explores the network design and planning of platform-based supply chains in four chapters based on mathematical modeling, algorithm analysis, and numerical experiments. The main research methodologies in this book include mathematical modeling, linear programming, integer and combinatorial programming, and stochastic and robust optimization.&nbsp;What makes the book unique is the new insights into network design and planning for platform-based supply chains, which differ from those for traditional supply chains. This makes the subject in this book of significance, although there are abundant existing works on relevant topics for traditional supply chains. Another important feature of this book is the systematic perspective to unify network design in deterministic and uncertain settings for platform-based supply chains. By summarizing the new research results obtained from the implementation of a national project on platform-based supply chain, this provides a generalized scope on network design and planning for large-scale supply chains.

Network Design and Planning

Platform Supply Chains 3

Palgrave Studies in Technology and Innovation in Africa

Over the past two decades,&nbsp;Southern&nbsp;African countries have gained&nbsp;increasing recognition&nbsp;in&nbsp;global agricultural markets, yet they continue to face significant&nbsp;internal&nbsp;and&nbsp;external&nbsp;challenges. Domestically, low productivity, limited production capacity,&nbsp;and&nbsp;weak trade structures constrain agricultural growth&nbsp;and&nbsp;competitiveness. Externally, restricted access to agricultural finance&nbsp;and&nbsp;modern technologies, together with&nbsp;institutional limitations, further impede progress. Moreover, climate change disproportionately affects farming&nbsp;systems&nbsp;across the region,&nbsp;intensifying vulnerability&nbsp;and&nbsp;food&nbsp;insecurity. This contributed volume brings together scholarly research on&nbsp;sustainable&nbsp;food&nbsp;systems&nbsp;in&nbsp;Southern&nbsp;Africa, key&nbsp;challenges&nbsp;to sustainability,&nbsp;and&nbsp;the policy frameworks shaping the region’s agricultural transformation. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainability, the rural economy, food supply chains and agritech, as well as on business in Africa more broadly.Tanyaradzwa Rukasha
 is an Agriculture Economist who is currently working as a Lecturer&nbsp;in&nbsp;the department of Development Sciences&nbsp;and&nbsp;Policy at Marondera University of Agriculture Sciences&nbsp;and&nbsp;Technology (MUAST), Zimbabwe. Her work experience&nbsp;includes being attached to various capacities within the Agribusiness sector, Academic&nbsp;Institutions&nbsp;and&nbsp;NGOs.
 Brighton Nyagadza
 is a Digital Marketing academic&nbsp;and&nbsp;Deputy Unit of Assessment Lead (Business &amp; Management Studies) at York St. John University, United Kingdom, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Certified Business &amp; Management Educator. He has published widely&nbsp;in&nbsp;reputable books&nbsp;and&nbsp;high impact journals.
 Joseph Muroiwa
 is a Lecturer&nbsp;in&nbsp;the Department of Agricultural Economics, Education&nbsp;and&nbsp;Extension at Bindura University of Science Education (BUSE), Zimbabwe.&nbsp;In&nbsp;addition to academia, he has worked within the banking sector, the Zimbabwe government, the agribusiness sector&nbsp;and&nbsp;NGOs.
 Basil Shumbanhete 
 is a Lecturer in the School of Accounting, Faculty of Commerce, Management and Law, at the University of Namibia. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Chinhoyi University of Technology. He holds an MSc. in Accounting and Finance, an ACCA professional qualification, and is a CIMA student.&nbsp;

Over the past two decades, Southern African countries have gained increasing recognition in global agricultural markets, yet they continue to face significant internal and external challenges. Domestically, low productivity, limited production capacity, and weak trade structures constrain agricultural growth and competitiveness. Externally, restricted access to agricultural finance and modern technologies, together with institutional limitations, further impede progress. Moreover, climate change disproportionately affects farming systems across the region, intensifying vulnerability and food insecurity. This contributed volume brings together scholarly research on sustainable food systems in Southern Africa, key challenges to sustainability, and the policy frameworks shaping the region’s agricultural transformation. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainability, the rural economy, food supply chains and agritech, as well as on business in Africa more broadly.

Innovations and Challenges in Southern Africa

Sustainable Food Systems

Law, Development, and Practice

Intellectual Property Debates in South Asia

Innovating Sustainability Through Digital Circular Economy

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