Constructing fuzzy composite indicators to support water policy entrepreneurship

Zabaleta, Amelia Pérez; Martínez, Pascual Fernández; Prados-Castillo, Juan F.; Castro-Pardo, Mónica de

doi:10.1016/j.stae.2022.100022

Cited by 5 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 16 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Banker et al (1984) loosened this restriction, allowing independent variation of the inputs and outputs under variable returns to scale. Despite its widespread acceptance in the literature (Garc ıa-Moll a et al, 2022; Puertas et al, 2022;P erez-Zabaleta et al, 2022), DEA still has certain limitations. It is a statistical tool whose results are highly sensitive to variability in the sample, data quality and the presence of outliers (Herrera and Pang, 2005).…”

Section: Synthetic Indexmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of social start-ups in entrepreneurial behaviour: the search for efficiency

Sanchez-Robles,

Soriano,

Puertas

et al. 2023

IJEBR

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

PurposeIn a world where sustainability is a major aim at all socioeconomic levels, social entrepreneurship plays an important role in achieving the goals that have been set. The purpose of this study is to broaden the knowledge of social start-ups, social incubators and founding teams, highlighting the value of each one. The aim is to use quantitative analysis to determine the possible link between social incubators and social start-up success and identify the founding team profile of social start-ups from each sector according to a sector-based ranking.Design/methodology/approachBootstrap data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to calculate the efficiency of social incubators and social start-ups and thus quantify the impact, in terms of increased efficiency, of social incubators on social start-ups. Then, using cross-efficiency methodology, a synthetic index was used to analyse the founding team profile of social start-ups. The study is based on primary data from a survey of Spanish social incubators and social start-ups.FindingsThe study provides strong quantitative evidence of the positive effect of social incubators on the development of social start-ups. The size of this effect exceeds the know-how of start-ups. In terms of efficiency gains, this research quantifies the impact of social incubators on this entrepreneurial ecosystem. This impact exceeds 35%. The study also shows that the strongest social start-ups are in the food and information and communication technology (ICT) sectors. The founding teams in these cases have a strong business background, have a high educational level, receive subsidies and express a desire to retain control of the company.Originality/valueThere is an extensive literature dedicated to the analysis of the behaviour and characteristics of traditional incubators, accelerators and start-ups. However, despite the recent rise of social entrepreneurship, studies of social incubators and social start-ups remain scarce. This study provides two novel findings. (1) It shows the importance of creating a social start-up in a context where it receives support throughout all its development stages, providing quantitative insight into the contribution of social incubators and social start-ups. (2) It reveals the profile of founding teams in the highest-ranked business sectors.

show abstract

Section: Synthetic Indexmentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of social start-ups in entrepreneurial behaviour: the search for efficiency

Sanchez-Robles,

Soriano,

Puertas

et al. 2023

IJEBR

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Therefore, the lack of environmental protection cognition might discourage farmers to participate in waste separation to a certain extent, thus affecting the effectiveness of waste separation. Moreover, the new institutional economics school of thought argues that behavior occurs in the institutional environment, which influences individual preferences and self-perceptions by providing actors with cognitive templates essential for activities to affect individual behavioral choices [37]. Because of this, this paper incorporates environmental perceptions into the framework of policy support waste sorting behavior and effectiveness research to reveal the mediating role of environmental protection perceptions in the pathway of policy support affecting sorting behavior and effectiveness.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Does Policy Support Affect the Behavior and Effectiveness of Domestic Waste Classification? The Mediating Role of Environmental Protection Perception

Huang

Zhangbao

2023

IJERPH

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Waste classification is the key initiative to solve environmental pollution and achieve resource recycling, environmental improvement, and high-quality development in rural areas. Under the perspective of “external support–internal drive”, this paper adopts the survey data of 2628 rural residents in Jiangsu province to analyze the influence and spatial effect of policy support (PS) on the behavior and effectiveness of rural residents’ domestic waste separation and the mediating effect of environmental protection perception using the PSM and Sobel test. The study found that: (1) PS has a significant positive effect on the governance of the domestic residents’ waste classification in rural areas. The variation in classification behavior (BWC) is more obvious than classification effectiveness (EWC). (2) PS has a significant difference in the positive influence on waste separation by regions. Specifically, the enhancement effect of PS on BWC decreases from south to north, and the enhancement effect on EWC is more obvious in southern Jiangsu than in central Jiangsu, but not significant in northern Jiangsu. (3) The mediating effect indicates that PS promotes the enhancement of BWC and EWC by strengthening farmers’ environmental protection perceptions, and the effect of EWC enhancement is more obvious. Drawing on the results of this paper, the government should improve the policy support system for waste classification, strengthen environmental protection-related policy publicity and knowledge popularization, stimulate the endogenous motivation of rural residents, narrow the regional environmental governance gap, and promote green and sustainable development in rural areas.

show abstract

Synergistic application of neuro-fuzzy mechanisms in advanced neural networks for real-time stream data flux mitigation

Goyal,

Kumar,

Singh

et al. 2024

Soft Comput

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Constructing fuzzy composite indicators to support water policy entrepreneurship

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

The role of social start-ups in entrepreneurial behaviour: the search for efficiency

The role of social start-ups in entrepreneurial behaviour: the search for efficiency

How Does Policy Support Affect the Behavior and Effectiveness of Domestic Waste Classification? The Mediating Role of Environmental Protection Perception

Synergistic application of neuro-fuzzy mechanisms in advanced neural networks for real-time stream data flux mitigation

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About