Organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) is an evolving concept concerning how and why people contribute positively to their organisations beyond defined work roles; a concept...

Psychological ownership (PO) can be an important tool for organizations to encourage productivity and certain desirable employee behaviours. In the organizational literature, PO is...

This paper provides an overview of the Bloom micro-distribution programme, an initiative spearheaded by Mars Catalyst and Mars Wrigley Confectionery Philippines that engages...

Increasing smallholder farmers’ yields has proven difficult and sophisticated industries have developed in order to address this problem. This study reports on the insights gained from...

Businesses are under increasing pressure to improve the resource efficiency of their products and services. There is a need for practical tools that enable businesses to implement resource efficiency…

Is there a link between an actor's social capital and that individual's economic performance? This study seeks to create a three-dimensional capital space and calculate a social capital coordinate vector for each actor…

Since July 2009, MARS has undertaken a joint project with researchers of the Paris School of Economics (PSE). The general objective of this collaboration is to develop measures of the non- monetary value created by MARS’…

Although M&S’s own operations have an impact on the environment, its biggest impact comes through the products it sells and the way in which those products are used. Rising raw...

Bel Access created Sharing Cities (SC) with the ambition to expand the number of consumers, particularly those at the Middle of the Pyramid in emerging markets. SC has...

Globally, insurers have observed both an upward trend in weather-related insured losses due to the increase in frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and the growing...

E-waste is the world’s fastest-growing waste stream, with a relatively low recycling rate overall (approximately 15% globally). 2 Rapid technology innovation and ever-shortening...

Lost and discarded fishing gear, particularly nets, makes up 10% of the world’s marine waste. Old and discarded nets can last for centuries and cause “ghost fishing,” whereby they...

In this study, we allege that the hypothesis in favour of a status quo bias is a plausible explanation when it comes to better understanding the lack or the absence of adoption of the best farming practices in small rural…

Education and learning are powerful tools that improve people’s lives. The reality today, however, is that four billion low-income and emerging middle-class consumers are often underserved by...

Business Ecosystems have been a topic of academic research since the 1990s and more recently the phrase has become somewhat of a buzzword in the media and among practitioners, sparking a lot of interest in various…

The essence of business ecosystems: structuring partnerships for co-innovation | Where they came from: modular design | Who leads business ecosystems and why | Why niche firms participate too | What they look like in…

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are ambitious and require trillions in investment. As a result, the financing needed to implement such goals exceeds the financing available...

About 300,000 children across the country, 55,000 of them Bedouin children, are eligible to receive a hot meal under the Israeli Food Security Act of 2004 [1]. Efforts by private external...