📈 economics

Conceptualising Brand Purpose as a Multidimensional Marketing and Management Construct: A Qualitative Framework

This study employs a multi-phase qualitative approach involving literature review and expert consultation to develop and refine a preliminary multidimensional framework of brand purpose, identifying eleven distinct dimensions that capture both internal organizational manifestations and external stakeholder experiences to advance construct clarity and future scale development.

David Campbell, Ritika Bhatia2026-09-30
📈 economics

Staging Institutional Reform Across Space: Court Modernisation and the Geography of Legal Services in Contemporary China

This paper employs synthetic control methods to demonstrate that China's 2020 Civil Procedure Case-Separation Reform successfully enhanced legal services in pilot cities without displacing neighboring regions, though the initial selective assignment of these pilots created a transitional spatial inequality that narrowed only after the reform became national law.

Peiran Lu2026-09-30
📈 economics

AI and the Productivity-Income Gap: A Theory of Demand Decoupling

This paper presents a theoretical model arguing that artificial intelligence could create a "Productivity-Income Gap" by reducing labor's share of income in a way that outpaces aggregate consumption growth due to differing marginal propensities to consume, while clarifying that current data merely illustrates this pattern without proving causation and emphasizing that historical institutions may eventually—but not necessarily quickly—restore the balance.

Ahmad Alamgir Khan2026-09-30
📈 economics

The Influence Of Circular Economy Practices On Green Entrepreneurship Among Agro-Processing SMEs in Ghana With Entrepreneurial Orientation As A Moderator

Drawing on Dynamic Capability Theory and a sample of 320 agro-processing SMEs in Kumasi, Ghana, this study utilizes structural equation modeling to demonstrate that circular economy practices positively influence green entrepreneurship, a relationship that is further strengthened by entrepreneurial orientation.

Solomon Gbene Zaato, Gordon Ati2026-09-30
📈 economics

A Study on Investment Friendliness Scenario in India: State-Level Regional Disparity Analysis

This study utilizes NITI Aayog's 2026 Investment Friendliness Index framework to analyze sub-national disparities across 36 Indian jurisdictions, revealing that while governance metrics show convergence, significant structural gaps in infrastructure and business climate—particularly in Hilly and North-Eastern States—necessitate targeted spatial investments to achieve the Viksit Bharat 2047 vision.

Pranesh Debnath2026-09-30