Employee resilience is closely linked to well-being, happiness, and workplace performance. Many studies have suggested a connection between mindfulness and employee resilience. However, a notable distinction arises between Eastern spiritual mindfulness and Western scientific mindfulness,...

This study examined the integration of resilience strategies in the real estate industry, taking into account increasing climate risks, economic changes and technological advances. The work highlights the importance of Industry 4.0 and 5.0 and shows how they impact workflow optimization,...

As climate change intensifies, countries experience varying degrees of vulnerability and resilience that influence their capacity to withstand and recover from environmental, economic, and social shocks. This study introduces the Multidimensional Vulnerability and Lack of Resilience Index...

Public works programmes (PWPs) are widely used social protection instruments in low- and middle-income countries. Participants carry out temporary, labour-intensive works in exchange for cash or in-kind compensation. The available empirical evidence indicates that these programmes are usually...

The climate change literature broadly characterizes resilience as the capacity of the household to withstand the negative consequences of climate change. However, most studies on climate change resilience use a general or inconclusive relationship between resilience and the coping strategy of...

This article deals with three major issues. The first is digital transformation in the context of a smart city seeking continuous action to leverage technologies to improve the design and delivery of services. The second is resilience. The third is sustainable development, defined as one that...

Since the 1990s and 2000s, Uzbekistan has made considerable progress in improving food security through prioritizing self-sufficiency, crop diversification, and, recently, administrative reforms in the agriculture sector to strengthen this strategic sector of the country. However, growing...

More than three years after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, some of its global spillover effects continue to impact many low-income and lower-middle-income countries (LICs and LMICs). As the world faces new global shocks - such as aid cuts and rising US tariffs - this synthesis report...

Vor dem Hintergrund der postpandemischen Konstellation wurde die strukturelle Störungsanfälligkeit globaler Produktionssysteme deutlich sichtbar. Infolgedessen wird das Konzept der Lieferkettenresilienz zunehmend diskutiert und dabei insbesondere digitalen Anwendungen ein hohes Potenzial zur...

Over the past decades, Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a significant increase in natural disasters, posing significant threats to infrastructure and economic activity, particularly in regions with poor infrastructure. Understanding the patterns in recovery time after disasters...

This research expands and updates a previous analysis of social entrepreneurship, incorporating the academic literature published between 2017 and 2024. Using the Web of Science database and Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) technique, 1262 articles were analyzed, organized into three time periods...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic took a sledgehammer to the education sector, shattering the established structured systems, norms and rituals of practices and procedures. To ensure continuity whilst adhering to the pandemic-induced containment measures, higher education institutions...

Angesichts der zunehmenden Herausforderungen für die psychische Gesundheit und der psychosozialen Stressfaktoren im Erwachsenenalter gewinnt die Stärkung psychologischer Ressourcen wie Selbstwirksamkeit und Resilienz zunehmend an Bedeutung. Dieses Diskussionspapier fasst die Ergebnisse einer...

This book introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labour, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. Arguing that this theory can help address the inequalities perpetuating the dynamics and processes underpinning stigma which surround the rise of...

This paper investigates the impact of regional institutional quality on economic growth and economic resilience. Using data collected by the Quality of Government Institute, we conduct a two-way fixed effect panel regression model for around 200 European regions during the period 2010 to 2021....

This study investigates the impact of new digital technologies on the resilience of firms to external shocks. Using rare comprehensive data on both the adoption of single and multiple new digital technologies, we employ a Difference-in-Differences methodology with propensity score matching to...

The paper discusses the growing interest in using social protection to address climate-related vulnerabilities and strengthen resilience, particularly in conflict-affected settings. It examines the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia, highlighting that while social assistance offers a...

This article assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and geopolitics on geographies of production. Criticizing simplified perspectives on globalized versus intraregional production, we stress the multi-scalarity, the role of industrial policies and sector-specific path...

Die Frage nach dem Ausmaß und der relativen Bedeutung von Diskriminierung für ethnische Ungleichheiten im deutschen Bildungssystem hat in den letzten Jahren zunehmend Aufmerksamkeit erhalten. Ethnische Disparitäten im Schulerfolg werden teils auf diskriminierende Praktiken zurückgeführt,...

Supply chain resilience (SCRes) enables an organization to deal with disruptive changes over time. Previous research has often examined SCRes as a standalone concept, overlooking its multidimensional and complex roots that enable organizations to deal with change. This research integrates SCRes...

Over the past decades, Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a significant increase in natural disasters, posing significant threats to infrastructure and economic activity, particularly in regions with poor infrastructure. Understanding the patterns in recovery time after disasters...

Grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit hat sich in Europa seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs immer stärker etabliert und institutionalisiert, einhergehend mit EUFörderpolitiken und angepassten Instrumentarien. Insofern erschien der Blick vielfach in die Zukunft in Richtung einer sich...

Die letzten Jahre wurden von zahlreichen Krisen geprägt (Coronakrise, russischer Angriffskrieg und damit verbundene Gaskrise, Inflationskrise), die unterschiedliche räumliche Wirkungen hatten. Für Akteure der Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung stellt sich immer häufiger die Frage nach der...

Der Artikel betrachtet die Resilienz der grenzüberschreitenden Beziehungen Breisachs am Beispiel von zwei Projekten im Bereich der Verkehrsinfrastruktur und der Entwicklung eines Gewerbeparks. In einer vergleichenden Fallstudie (2018-2023) untersucht der Artikel - basierend auf...

Der Beitrag diskutiert die Krisenfestigkeit grenzüberschreitend-euroregionaler Politik- und Verwaltungskooperation in der deutsch-polnischen Grenzregion in Zeiten der Polykrise. Der räumliche Fokus liegt auf Brandenburg-Lubuskie, konkret auf den Euroregionen Pro Europa Viadrina und...

"Die grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit muss krisenfester werden" - Sätze wie dieser sind häufig zu lesen, wenn es um Lehren geht, die grenzregionale Verantwortliche aus den Erfahrungen mit der Covid-19-Pandemie seit Frühjahr 2020 zogen. Unilaterales Handeln der Nationalstaaten hatte...

This paper investigates the impact of regional institutional quality on economic growth and economic resilience. Using data collected by the Quality of Government Institute, we conduct a two-way fixed effect panel regression model for around 200 European regions during the period 2010 to 2021....

Urban informal settlements in the Global South, home to over a billion people, face significant challenges due to limited space and inadequate Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) and Solid Waste Management (SWM) infrastructure. These deficiencies significantly impact women's 'triple care role'...

Globale Krisen zeigen die Anfälligkeit von Lieferketten, besonders in Deutschland und Europa. Strukturelle Veränderungen wie Digitalisierung, Dekarbonisierung und regionale Sicherheit erhöhen den Bedarf an importierten Rohstoffen. Bestehende Abhängigkeiten werden dadurch vertieft,...

This article deals with three major issues. The first is digital transformation in the context of a smart city seeking continuous action to leverage technologies to improve the design and delivery of services. The second is resilience. The third is sustainable development, defined as one that...

The aim of this study is to explore and investigate empirically the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on price and volume dynamics in crypto markets. The study makes use of two data samples, but these samples are analyzed separately and independently. The first sample consists of top five crypto...

Crises constitute a fascinating context in which to investigate the resilience of institutional arrangements, or their breakdown and change, and to shed light on the interplay between formal and informal institutions in this process. The papers in this symposium focus on crises from political...

The paper discusses the growing interest in using social protection to address climate-related vulnerabilities and strengthen resilience, particularly in conflict-affected settings. It examines the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia, highlighting that while social assistance offers a...

Considering increasing mental health challenges and psychosocial stressors in adulthood, strengthening psychological resources such as self-efficacy and resilience is of growing importance. This discussion paper synthesizes findings from a systematic review that explored how self-efficacy...

This study applies the concept of regret in decision-making under uncertainty to an energy system optimization model to identify optimal robust and stochastic solutions amongst several design options. The approach is demonstrated on the case study of Accra, Ghana, considering uncertainties...

As extreme weather risks escalate and related insured losses grow in magnitude, the availability and affordability of home insurance is coming under increasing pressure in certain regions. This is being amplified by various socioeconomic factors, including poor land use, outdated building codes,...

Background: Growing environmental concerns and the vulnerability of global supply chains to disruptions, such as pandemics, natural disasters, and logistical failures, necessitate the design of sustainable and resilient supply chains. Methods: A novel multi-period mixed-integer linear...

This study examines the resilience of two salesforce compensations-the quantity-based (Q-type) and percentage-based (P-type)-under market turbulence. These two compensations are used to incentivize salespeople to promote demand. However, they work in different ways: the Q-type is an absolute...

This study seeks to identify the factors driving household food insecurity in Cameroon during the COVID-19 pandemic, examine the effects of coping strategies on household resilience, and explore complementarities among these strategies. We used data from the COVID-19 panel surveys conducted by...